The most beautiful house I’ve ever seen

I’ve seen this crop up a few times on the web. This is Simon Dale’s low-impact house in Wales. His site has lots of information about building the house. The important things to me are the cost and the low environmental impact. The house cost £3000 (and an amazing amount of work). It’s environmental impact is tiny compared to a typical modern house build and it’s rather nicer I think. Unfortunately the UK planning system makes it very hard to get permission to build houses like this. I even had a tiny bit of a hand in the building – I helped putting some of the mud up on the turf roof!

A low-impact home built from natural materials.