Video tour of an incredible hobbit house cabin that is completely off-grid. It is built with straw bale walls and limestone plaster, log roof rafters and support columns, and a stunning green roof with a glass dome in the centre to bring in a lot of natural light.
This hobbit house was built by Dior and Sylvain from Les Toits du Monde (http://www.lestoitsdumonde.ca/_en/index.html) which in English means Roofs of the World. It is a wooded eco-resort with trails running through the forest and all kinds of neat cabins and green buildings to stay in. They also have a tree house, yurts, and a tipi in addition to the hobbit house, and they are located in Nominingue, Quebec — a small town that’s less than 3 hours from Montreal and Ottawa.
The hobbit house has solar power for the lights, a single-burner propane cooktop in the kitchen, a portable solar shower and composting 5-gallon bucket toilet with sawdust in the bathroom, a woodstove for heat, and they deliver jugs of drinking water to each cabin that are filled from their well at the main house.
In addition to being sustainable and off-grid, the interior design of the tiny house is quite stunning. They’ve used natural, unfinished wood for countertops, benches, a table, and more. It all adds to the feeling that your house is a part of the woods. It’s minimalist living at it’s best.
The underground house is a vacation rental that sleeps 4 in a double bunkbed, and it has quite an open concept but the floor plan could be easily modified to create more privacy for a long-term living situation. A minimalist family or couple could easily create a cozy home in a space like this and it would probably be quite a budget-friendly building project since most of the building materials seem to have been taken from the forest around the hobbit house.
We had a blast touring the tiny underground hobbit house at Les Toits du Monde (and eating Dior’s fresh, homemade bread with Sylvain) and we are excited to share a video tour of their amazing tree house cabin in an upcoming video. It has a hanging bridge!
In the meantime, you can learn more about this eco-resort on their website here:
http://www.lestoitsdumonde.ca/_en/index.html
and on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/lestoitsdumonde
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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We are a group of students from the Josefa Velez Bauza High School. We all got together with a common concern: improving our world to become a better place to live in. We approached our former Science teacher from Middle School, Mr. González, to help us make our ideas a reality. We wanted to create “Green Roofs” on our school. So, we emabarged into a journey that made us grow a lot as individuals and as team learning that to transform ideas into reality involes a lot of planning, changes, trials and errors.
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Somos un grupo de estudiantes de la Escuela Superior Josefa Vélez Bauzá. Nos unimos con una idea en común: mejorar nuestro mundo para convertirlo en un mejor lugar para vivir. Nosotros nos acercamos a nuestro antiguo maestro de Ciencias de la Escuela Intermedia, Prof. González, para que nos ayudara a cumplir nuestras ideas. Queríamos construir “Techos Verdes” en nuestra escuela. Así que nos adentramos en una aventura que nos hizo crecer muco como individuos y como equipo, aprendiendo que para transformar ideas en realidades envuelve mucha planificación cambios, ensayos y errores.
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I like the simplicity and it's very nice.
I absolutely love the hobet house. I think it should have a wrapping deck though other wise it is so very cool i love the roof.
Beautiful house and another wonderful video
These houses definitely look like they belong here in our patch of the wood! We literally live about 45 minutes away from Hobbitville, NZ 😀 😀 I love the care and beauty they've taken with their interior – so beautiful.
That place is awesome.
I'm a noob when it comes to alternative living.What happens with the toilet paper in a compost toilet ?
awesome
Nice house. Greetz from Nederland.
Is land cheap in Canada?
Very nice, thank you.
5:06 bug
I really love this Hobbit House – so well designed and built. Thanks a lot for the great tour!!
quite a unique place! i love it!
Do they use electricity for the lights?
you could totally live there comfortably
nice house
Great design and it has some great aspects of use to be considered.
Cheers for sharing guys!
really cool
:)
Así es!!!
Gracias!!!
essooo los chicos trabajando para el futuro ……..
Estoy muy orgullosa de ustedes 😀 Exito <3