Ultimate Underground Home

[stvrowe]

Last week a friend pulled me aside at church and gave me a card identifying a website he put together for his underground home.  His design, woodwork, craftsmanship, and construction skills (not to mention his development of various tooling and jigs for his custom shop) is truly a sight to behold.  His work is just flat out awesome and something I thought you all might be interested in.  The link is;

Our Underground Home

I will also note that his shop is also an underground structure that he built to get the best fire rating possible for insurance purposes.  His largest and oldest piece of machinery is a WWII ordinance lathe which he modified to perform pattern profiling and fluting on columns up to 40 feet long. 

Enjoy!

 

[John Stevens]

Thanks for posting that link, Steve.  What a marvel of planning and perseverance.  I can't believe your friend was able to build such a home and support a family at the same time.

Regards,

John

 

[bijeshj]

Thanks - that is really slick and expensive

 

[Tinker]

When I was going to do some adding on to our house, I told my wife, and others, that I was going to do something unusual.  

Along the back of the house behind our kitchen, bathroom and one bedroom there is a very steep bank.  When we first moved in, the bank was so close to our kitchen door and so steep that to open the door, we actually climbed up the bank, leaned over putting our right hand on the side of the house, reaching down to the doorknob with our left hand. There are a few good stories about the solving of that problem that i won't go into here.  

What i told my friends i was going to do was closely related to both my trade and my hobby.  I was a mason contractor and a gardener.  I had a great veggy garden.  A lot of the space was devoted to root vegetables such as carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips, potatoes and, of course, a whole lot of leaf vegetables. My idea was to, instead of removing the bank to make room for us to get into the house, bring the bank right over the house.  I might even bury the entire house, with some concrete work here and there to strengthen the structure, of course.  I was going to make a perforated ceiling over the kitchen and be sure to put real good topsoil over that portion of the house.  

I would plant all of my root vegetables right over those perforations and wait for the root tips to start showing thru those holes.  It would then be an easy matter for my wife to just reach up over her head and pull our dinners right fresh down from the ceiling.  :

Tinker

 

[greg mann]

That is stunning work. Too good to be hidden underground, IMO. Having seen the work I would love to see the workshop in which it was all made.

 

[RC]

I'm just wondering how claustrophobic you would get in a space like that with no windows what-so-ever?

Woodwork is obviously top notch and his structural design is exactly like puts it on the website - massively over engineered.

Cool stuff, but I couldn't life underground like a hobbit regardless how comfy it is. Even hobbits had windows  [wink]

 

[rnt80]

Geez...

 

[Locky]

wow, does his workshop have festool by any chance?

 

[Paul G]

Love it! Have seen some impressive excavated cave dwellings but this is a completely different kind of space. Could easily call it home.

 

[Kev]

Hobbits?

 

[tjbier]

Um, wow!
I would like to see dollar amounts spent, dang that is over the top.  That is crazy , I would have lost interest in 18 years  [eek]
The craftsmanship is stunning,  especially with all the arches and the furniture.
Thanks for sharing.