It’s mid-August, hot and humid, with record temperatures in the upper 90′s. We’ve been terracing the hillside, digging out for the waterfall and filling the retaining wall tires. Hoping to stay a little cooler, today, we decided to take a break from digging and write bit about the house building. We bought this land in [...]
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Before the Build
No Comments Papercrete Maven on Aug 13th 2010
Filed under About,Carrie & Elisia Ross-Stone
About Us
We are two women, both over 50, and we built this house ourselves using recycled materials and a healthy dose of blood, sweat and tears! We began with a leaky old mobile home we got for free, and we doubled its size by building a 6′ addition on both sides. For the additions, we made [...]
No Comments Papercrete Maven on Apr 28th 2010
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Welcome to Built from TRASH!
// < ![CDATA[ google_ad_client = "pub-6956232819465524"; /* 728x15, created 6/8/10 */ google_ad_slot = "7744669726"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 15; // ]]> This blog tells the tale of how we built a house using as construction materials, old tires, newspapers, bottles, used lumber, scrap metal and a free house trailer. When we bought the land, [...]
3 Comments Papercrete Maven on Apr 11th 2010
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