/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>369820
I understand, but there's less motive to build a dream home that you can only live in on the weekends once a month, unless you live innawoods(nothing wrong with that, but unless it is relatively close to your job, kinda less pertinent).
The small things like mixing colored lime plaster and grouting/regular eathbag walls are pretty easy, whereas making an earthbag dome or doing a subterranean home get pretty pants on head retarded for the novice(perpetual water/moisture issue and the like, there are some horror stories about earthships not being done in the right manner).
You could probably throw a medium sized earthbag home up with the help of a small 10-20 person crew very easily. Once the walls are up, the roofing is pretty easy, especially with steel. Even if you have a contractor kinda direct, but you do most of the leg work, and they do the ultra major electric stuff, most are flexible with those sorts of things.
Some places have large lots in cities, others don't. Remember you'll have to pay property taxes, and they might not even let you build your home. Most Home owner's association's just want stuff not to look bad, same as city councils, but sometimes they just won't let you do anything they find out of the ordinary.
Note that you'll have to pay property tax too. If you're out of city limits, some of the counties don't have restrictive planning.
You can do some cool as hell things with plaster and colors, even just playing with light and dark sets.
The smaller Dreamgreen homes done with earthbags would be very cheap, especially with recycled windows and whatnot.