tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28479475644016952892011-04-21T14:20:25.446-07:00Cloud Hiddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106525196712758356noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847947564401695289.post-12228827162864065711998-01-15T14:49:00.000-08:002009-01-04T15:05:22.259-08:00

We started clearing the site over the winter of 1997/1998, cutting about fifteen trees and stacking the firewood. And then re-stacking it and re-stacking it again, and probably once more, as we had a knack for putting it exactly where we'd soon need to place a trailer or large piece of equipment.The heaviest equipment was a track-hoe that carved a notch into the mountain to give us a building

Cloud Hiddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01106525196712758356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2847947564401695289.post-68411475410273525521998-01-04T12:38:00.000-08:002009-01-04T14:41:13.348-08:00

Though I had always wanted to design and build a house, and had a fair amount of experience with construction, caution led us to seek out architects. None we spoke with, however, seemed to understand both our determination to build an insulated thin shell concrete house and our fondness for avant-garde architecture. While looking for an appropriate designer, we did the legwork to map the contours

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We knew we wanted to move from PA, but we still had to pick to where we wanted to move. Melanie wanted anywhere in the South, and I was just a bit more restrictive, limiting it to Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.We spent the month of May, 1997 visiting every medium and large city in those four states. Asheville won us over by a large amount because of the beauty of the mountains

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Melanie and I were living in Pennsylvania in 1997, but that was just a temporary location. We had intended from the start to move south and build a house. One day I was browsing around the internet for atypical house styles and came upon a picture of "Eye of the Storm". I was immediately hooked. I yelled for Melanie to look at the picture, and as soon as she did, she went to her photo album and

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