Semi underground cabin & music studio alone in the woods.
Semi underground cabin & music studio alone in the woods.
In 2018 I've started to build my house alone in the woods in south of France. It tooks me around 9 months. It's inspired by the superadobe building technics (earth bag houses), but in rectangular form, covered by wood. The only powered tool I've used were a chainsaw. For the first month, I've slept in the tent you can see on this video, but due to a huge amount of snow fallen in a night, my tent broke so I used it only to store my food. I've slept on a hammock under a tarp during something like 6 months. What you can't see on this video is that I've completly covered the roof with earth. For using my electronic music instruments & lights I have a little solar panel and for cooking and staying warm I have a small wood stove that is normally used for yurts.
It's less than 8m square.
About the Piano, many questions are asked in the comments:
I moved the piano with two very strong friend during an entire afternoon trough the forest. There is a road up to my spot where I dropped the piano with a van. Normally walking from this point to my house takes me 10 minutes. But with a 100years old piano, it's not so easy. We put a carpet under the piano to let it slide slowly when it was possible to, but the little path is thin with ton of rock, and very sloping. I put the piano inside my cabin before making the door, because afte the final doorframe the piano is too big to pass trough. So basicaly now my piano will never be able to go back out.
Buy the land and build this cabin cost me around 5000€ (solar panel included).
I would like to thanks all my friends who came to help me, to dig, to cut & move the trees, to put earth in bags, to drive me to the store, to bring me some beers & cheese. to give me hapiness.
www.s8jfou.com
In 2018 I've started to build my house alone in the woods in south of France. It tooks me around 9 months. It's inspired by the superadobe building technics (earth bag houses), but in rectangular form, covered by wood. The only powered tool I've used were a chainsaw. For the first month, I've slept in the tent you can see on this video, but due to a huge amount of snow fallen in a night, my tent broke so I used it only to store my food. I've slept on a hammock under a tarp during something like 6 months. What you can't see on this video is that I've completly covered the roof with earth. For using my electronic music instruments & lights I have a little solar panel and for cooking and staying warm I have a small wood stove that is normally used for yurts.
It's less than 8m square.
About the Piano, many questions are asked in the comments:
I moved the piano with two very strong friend during an entire afternoon trough the forest. There is a road up to my spot where I dropped the piano with a van. Normally walking from this point to my house takes me 10 minutes. But with a 100years old piano, it's not so easy. We put a carpet under the piano to let it slide slowly when it was possible to, but the little path is thin with ton of rock, and very sloping. I put the piano inside my cabin before making the door, because afte the final doorframe the piano is too big to pass trough. So basicaly now my piano will never be able to go back out.
Buy the land and build this cabin cost me around 5000€ (solar panel included).
I would like to thanks all my friends who came to help me, to dig, to cut & move the trees, to put earth in bags, to drive me to the store, to bring me some beers & cheese. to give me hapiness.
www.s8jfou.com