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Earthship Landing Finished I have left these images larger so that you can get the feel for the house. Additional text on these pages will follow
South
Facing Hallway looking towards the west. You can tell it's summer because
the sun is only coming in the hallway a little. During the winter when
the sun is lower in the sky, the sun will shine deep into the room.
This is the master bathroom. You can see the tomato plant on the left. This tomato plant produces wonderful tomatoes year round and has lasted three years. The bathtub in the background is shaped to fit your body which is real nice. People have asked us if it bothers us that people can see us through the glass, but when you live out in nature like we do the only thing watching us are the deer and God.
This is our office. The solar power that we use supplies enough power to keep us fully going even with two computers going. It is real nice to be able to work out of our house.
This
is our Kitchen and living U. It is the biggest U in the house at 18'
X 26'. The kitchen cabinetry is made out of Aspen and the cabinet doors
are made out of Cedar wood. In the background you can see the stove
pipe for our wood burning stove. We had to put some type of backup heat
in so that we met the building codes. We only need to use the wood stove
a couple of times per year and that is more for ambience than heating.
The refrigerator on the right side is the worlds most efficient, a Sun
Frost. It uses DC power so that it can work off of the (solar powered)
batteries directly and not the inverter.
This picture is our planter box where we can grow our veggies year round. You can see a metal mesh on top of the planter box. This is used to keep the kitties out of the planter as they like to use it as their bathroom. We learned this one the hard way.