What would your dream off grid homestead be like?
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What would your dream off grid homestead be like?
I’m looking for ideas for my next home build. The plan has always to build a larger nicer home up the hill from this one. This was supposed to be temporary until my house in the city sold at which time I was going to build and use this either as a guest house or more likely a wood working shop. Well the crash of 08-09 happened and the house never sold. After covering both notes, here and there for about 20-22 months I had to let that one go to foreclosure and lost about 170k in equity. Which means I didn’t and don’t have the money to build like I had planned. That’s not to say I’m not still going to build. I made up my mind tonight that project goes forward starting next year money or no money. It will have to have as many raw materials off the land as possible. The good thing there is I have stone and timber on the property. The timber is almost all hardwoods though. I am also sure there are course sand deposits since I hit them when putting in a drain for a root cellar. So a good many raw materials to work with. I also have metal roofing and fasteners on hand that I bought before prices went sky high.
Since this is now going to pretty much be a solo build with no budget my plans need to change a LOT. The plans I had originally come up with were for a family of four, that was 15 years ago though!
The only small sliver of silver lining is I know most of the building trades since I did most of them during my working life.