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I can buy a metal garden shed for a couple of hundred bucks, assemble it myself, and it'll stand for decades without needing much if any maintenance. I could ge
by pamqzl 9y ago
I can buy a metal garden shed for a couple of hundred bucks, assemble it myself, and it'll stand for decades without needing much if any maintenance. I could get one with a window, and a door that locks.
It wouldn't give me any Whole Foods cred like a dome or a yurt, but aside from that issue it seems more practical than either of those, if I wanted to live in one small and poorly insulated room without plumbing.
I've just looked at the Better Shelter page and it seems that their idea is the same as mine -- a metal shed.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThere's looks like a good shed, extendible, more insulated than sheet metal. The metal shed you get now, is likely to be designed to break and be hard to repair, 10 years ago its predecessor was probably much better. At least their shed is designed with repairability in mind.
- erikpukinskis 9y ago> I could get one with a window, and a door that locks. For a couple hundred bucks?
- pamqzl 9y agoWell, okay, closest I could find was this $279 one with a lockable door but no window, but I haven't looked all that hard.
- AlotOfReading 9y agoGers/Yurts aren't poorly insulated. They're actually a bit over-insulated for most places. You could easily add locking doors or plumbing (I've seen both in Mongolian gers), but the real design advantages are the portability and wind load factors.