The Noisettes

When you’re the [adventurous/cheap/masochistic/stupid] type of person who embarks on a custom home building/remodeling project you look for other people going through a similar experience. The Blog Revolution has been great for connecting do-it-yourselfers with each other, at least over the Internet.
I check the following blogs, forums, and sites quite frequently.

For help, inspiration, design ideas, useful tips, deals, and so on:

IKEAFANS – “Personalizing the IKEA Experience”

To see green and new building techniques in actual use:

Building a house in Central Florida – An environmentally friendly ICF home in Lake County, FL.

Woodswell Blog – An ICF home in Tallahassee, FL.

To commiserate:

Gottfried Green – Ex-New Yorkers trying to build a family home as green and sustainable as possible.

Nashville Modern Prefab – Documenting an attempt to build something interesting near downtown Nashville.

When I haven’t slapped my forehead enough:

Dream Home Diaries – A married yankee pair of writers (and consultants) who have a “commuter marriage,” two separate homes, a $250K strip of land on Anna Maria Island, and a dream to build a cozy beach cottage retirement home… with an elevator. For roughly $350K.

It’s a combination of faux-naïveté, disingenuousness, and whining about property taxes. So far they’ve tried to keep a pennywise yankee tone while unveiling house plans for a structure that couldn’t be built for less than $750K and bellyaching over a $5000 tax bill… on their third home.

As a side note on this particular “blog,” I have to say that The New York Times has really frustrated a lot of readers by letting the authors continue on the way they have because the arc of the posts has gone past ridiculous and into ludicrous speed territory. The comments from blog readers have gone from light and helpful to acidic and sarcastic ever since the writers revealed that they haven’t even come close to breaking ground yet.

More links:

Because I’m a big fan of the modern design and prefab movements…

Hive Modular – Architecturally Designed Modular Housing.

BoKlok

The Dwell Homes by Empyrean

Rocio Romero’s LVL Home

MoCo Loco: QUIK HOUSE

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