Jul 01 2009
Living in a 17,000 Foot Home in a Gouge in the Earth
From KPLR11
The Sleepers Curtis, Deborah and their children, Kian, Perry and baby Theodore Wesley live in a cave, a 17,000-square-foot gouge in the earth left by a 1930s sandstone mine. Its Tom Sawyer country here in Festus, Mo., just a few miles from the Mississippi River, and the Sleepers showed their adventurous side by making their home 45 feet under a forest (and a neighbors home).
Curtis Sleeper said they chose to build in the cave because of the serenity and privacy he and his wife felt on the first day they visited the site. The front of the three-bedroom home is constructed from glass doors and used materials bought from a local store. Insulation sealant keeps the interiors 65 to 70 degrees year-round, Curtis said.
Anyone else find it odd that their last name is Sleeper? By the way this house is amazing.
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With a little Wind or Solar power from the ridge above, you can reduce your “Carbon Footprint” and power demands, and heating, lighting and other energy consumption can be reduced too! You are in an excellent position to show the world, by living example, that the “McMansion”, and our American fetish for 18th Century British lawns and flower gardens is foolhardy. Please process your humanure into biogas, and fertilizers, Compost your kitchen wastes, and garden as if life depended on it. Consider Aquaculture, to get the fish and veggies all in one shot, and think chickens if you have nearby grain-fields. Anything that reduces consumption of foreign oil can help America’s growing trade deficit, and make you richer, even buying European style high efficiency eco-turbo-bio-diesels - they are 40 % more efficient than out gas-cars, domestic or from Asia! and can run on bio- diesel we can grow at home from algae. Breaking the mold by living outside the advertised “American Dream” home, can prove rewarding and so can other “undersold” adventures - try some “outside the box” stuff on! You may find a custom fit to your real, inner-self, desires.
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