
Green Living ~ In a Yurt Home
Green Living…Living more closely with S P I R I T…O M M M…=)
Meet our house, the Magnolia 2300. It’s a three bedroom, round, passive solar home located in the lush green forest of Nelson, B.C. Canada. Myself, my husband Lars, and our 15 year old daughter, Poppy, designed our house using Slow Home principles for building houses that are healthy, designed to exactly fit the inhabitants and are gentle on the environment. The design was ‘slow’ but the construction process was quick because we pre-fab built the wall panels off-site with the insulation, doors, windows and siding included. Prefab-ulous!
Some glowing benefits of prefab are a lower environmental impact on the site and less construction waste. It’s also fast. And a speed build to weather-tight means that no valuable building materials were adversely affected by rain and snow, which happens in many places, but especially in Canada through the winter. We started pouring the concrete for the ICF foundation in the fall of 2011 and we moved in 150 days later.
Green Living = H A P P Y N E S S !!! =)
O M M M…P E A C E…O M M M…=)