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Build your house inside your greenhouse
« on: February 25, 2016, 05:00:43 PM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/realestate/experimental-living-inside-a-dutch-greenhouse.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

The Concept House in Rotterdam, an energy-efficient wooden dwelling encased in a greenhouse, has made firm converts of its “test family.”


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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2016, 12:43:38 AM »
Awesome!!
Except... the house takes up so much greenhouse space ha ha
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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2016, 06:08:51 AM »
There is another house in Sweden that is on you-tube.  That one is a full on glass shell over a house.  A total waste if you ask me.  No room for growing, if your objective is insulating your home, there are more efficient and cost effective ways to do it.  And.. IMHO, its ugly.

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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2016, 10:21:20 AM »
You'd have to have a full time butler to keep up with the mildew, fungus & rot.

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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2016, 08:42:45 AM »
Forget the traditional house plopped inside a greenhouse - I'd rather design outdoor adapted living spaces if I was going to live inside a greenhouse - as long as there are no vines dropping things onto the kitchen while I'm cooking and in the "al fresco" dining areas probably something doable in the tropics? Colder harsh winter areas maybe not so smart idea.
Diggin in dirt and shifting compost - gardeners crossfit regime :)

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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #5 on: February 29, 2016, 08:48:37 AM »
http://www.cbsnews.com/media/5-greenhouses-that-are-actually-homes/10/

I love the Pennsylvania and Camouflage House #3 the most
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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #6 on: February 29, 2016, 09:46:50 AM »
Very Cool!!

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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2020, 07:53:22 AM »
This is such a cool idea that you can have a garden inside of your own house. I hope this someday will become a normal thing to live inside of your garden. Imagine you can have all the benefits of greenhouse inside of your own house that is actually pretty awesome. I do own greenhouse myself but it is outside in the garden. I remember time I wanted to buy a greenhouse for the first time I didn’t really knew what accessories I needed or which one to buy. In the end I dicided to order everything online but if you are intresting to buy online accesories for your greenhouse I can suggest you this swgreenhouses.co.uk and with customer support you can easily decide what you need.
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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2020, 11:17:10 AM »
There is a russian on the forum here that has the house inside a greenhouse and seems to be working great.

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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2020, 02:15:20 PM »
Yeah I read about the one posted on the citrus section of this forum.   I was skeptical about moisture/mildew but poster claimed it wasn't an issue.  Interesting idea... I'd consider it if I had a bunch of land and was building a new house from scratch for fun.

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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2020, 02:44:43 PM »
My husband and I have often joked that we should turn our house into an Air B&B and just live in the greenhouse. We eat out there all the time and have slept in it on an air mattress.  We could bathe in the heated pond and shower with the hose.  Really, if we had a porta-potty and a hotplate, it would BE a house!

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Re: Build your house inside your greenhouse
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2020, 01:31:44 PM »
When I moved to a rural area about 20 years ago. first thing I did was dig 6m x 6m hole into a souyh facing hill.  I lined it with used railroad ties and used recycled glass to make a roof.  A cheap greenhouse.  And I lived in it that summer.  At night I would look up at the moon and stars.  I wish I was still living there.