@@majormediaproductions No, of course not, then we wouldn't still have them on our mountain cabins. Nowadays we use modern materials underneath the grass to keep it completely dry. In the old days they would use tree bark underneath the soil and grass. The grass roots will soak up the moisture and the bark (or whatever people use nowadays will take care of the rest before it permeates the roof. The bark would have needed to be changed every 20 years or so and the soil and grass removed and replanted afterwards. No moisture inside = no bugs or infestations. I actually helped build my own mountain cabin 20 years ago and the man building it had learned the old techniques from his father and grandfather going back to the 1800's. He told me how it used to be. Ot was actually quite interesting to see the log cabin being made from scratch in the old way. (With a couple of modifications.)
These are really unusual homes. Love the grass roofed ones and the one you have to be a member to get to. Love the terrain on the member one. Personally I would choose to live in NH on Lake Wiinne or Squam Lake. They build houses on islands there and the water level doesn’t change so they can build and have built right on the water’s edge. They drive across the lake when frozen and boat when thawed. GORGEOUS!!!!!
I’ve stayed at the Comfort Inn in Coober Pedy, it’s absolutely amazing! They dig out more rooms every now and then and the opals they find usually pay for it all. If you ever come to Australia it’s worth a visit 🇦🇺💜
My favorites were the homes of Iceland with the grass roofs and also the self sustaining homes where you grow your own garden inside and have walls made out of colored bottles. I'd love living in either one. Loved the video! Thanks for sharing it with us!
I bought this because I did not have a clue about the design, materials composition and building of a shed. ru-vid.comUgkxb2mhCug-GkCWrq69Ce2I0nM0D4QpxAquIt is absolutely fascinating, with clear, readable text and helpful illustrations also enough videos. There is a great sense of creativity and enthusiasm underlying the projects which the authors develop, from a bike shed to a glorious eco-shed. I like the way explanations are provided for decisions made from a range of options. I am not really in a position to rate the more technical detail, but think I am prepared to boldly go shed- building, equipped with this manual.
1:26 How can you have a segment about this famous house and not state its name? It's called Fallingwater. What you don't say is that the owner asked for a house with views of the waterfall, but Wright, going against those instructions, built it *over* that waterfall. Unsurprisingly, damp was a problem and the owners always had to have buckets about the place to catch the... falling water.
@jonnbravo119806 It was AMAZING! The furniture was dated (of course) but every room was breathtaking and the views from every room (since it was basically all windows!) was one in a million.
The second house in Serbia on river Drina was built by group of swimmers that needed a place to stay and enjoy the water. Back in that time they brought all material by small boats and it took a lot of time to build it. That river is very fast and it was really hard job to do. :) They made all those houses coz they are creative people with unique style, and thats something that lots of people appreciate and admire.
I'm actually amazed from this video. Coming from an Islander, all houses around here are almost all the same local and real-down local. But these are uniques! Thanks :)
I been in the Thousands islands River wich is Saint Lawrence River, it is stunning beautiful people use this home aislands as a vacation destination in the summer, I took a ferry around the Thousands tiny aislands it was a good experience.
Hey there I can explain why they carved their homes inside the rocks in Tatawine. It's because it's very cool in the summer and warm in winter. At first, those houses were built to store food (dates, toasted wheat, red pepper,....). It's not a permanent home as each family had a house in the village and a storehouse on the mountain near the village. But after discovering its coolness in summer they also used it as a shelter from the hottest desert's middays.
Number 22 is wrong. That is on the the susquehanna river in the susquehanna valley in PA. I've driven past it. Before the house was built, children would come on boats across the river from the town of Marietta to swim in the waterfall and its pond below. When the house was built, they had to stop.
yeah. My great grandfather lived in that town all his life. He used to go there was a kid. The funny thing is he is in a book about the town where he talks all about it. Its a limited run from a couple years ago that's over 1100 pages that goes through everything from notable members to presidential visits to crimes and even the town hauntings(but they didn't cover all. that town has to be one of the most haunted in the state. A friend who lives there heard a guitar playing in her room. Her dad grabbed his shotgun and slowly went up and checked. No one was there. My little cousin would see a union soldier in her house as a kid. she knew things that she should have not known. There is a supposed picture of an angel on top of a bar, a Bed and breakfast has multiple haunts. don't even get me started about the creepy ass forest. Across the river near the falls, a massive house that is at least 150 years old is haunted by the spirits of two teens. The boy murdered the girl when she rejected him and he was hung on the property. My grandmother and one of my aunts saw a man in a tophat walk through the door, I mean THROUGH the door, like through the wood, into the ladies bathroom at one of the towns bars. I didn't even get to the extinct species of bigfoot up here called that have been sighted by native americans for centuries, the multiple romeo and juliet stories, indian killings, the caped man(which I saw before). It's a creepy and old town. over 200 years old if i remember correctly.
Wow, that's wild! Thanks for the response, very interesting! My dad lived in Massachusetts and apparently, there was a lot of scary stuff going on in the woods there. He saw indians a lot apparently. I laughed at "don't even get me started on the creepy ass forest" lmao
From Virgina/West Virginia and up seems like its all just a paranormal hotspot. There is the old house woods in Virginia which is supposed to be the craziest haunted forest in the world(I am talking about flying pirate ships, headless dogs, glowing orbs, buried treasure, phantom british armies, skeletons looking for treasure, screaming. Everything you can think of). Gettysburg, Marietta, and basically the entirety of PA, Mass has a bunch of hauntings as well. All the supposed sightings of weird ass creatures in the mountains. It's just crazy how much of this stuff there is in this area. I think PA and the virginias are the biggest hotbeds though.
Friend... Sorry, not sure if you got the number of the house wrong.... but #22 is definitely not near Marietta. Wikipedia and Google Maps show it about 13 miles due east of Uniontown in SW Penn. Densely surrounded by forest, on a tributary to the Youghiogheny River.
I believe they’ve turned Frank loyd Wright’s waterfall house into a museum now. Which makes sense because people were probably constantly taking pictures of it and wanting to visit
I grew up in the Thousand Islands, no tides to my knowledge but the levels do change with the seasons etc. It's just one of many homes built on small islands there, however still one of the coolest.
Number 8 is not far from where I live, I can go find these tree houses and make a video if anyone is interested. I already plan to goto Matlock this weekend it’s just past there
The house on the island in the St. Lawrence river is the one I'd choose, I saw it when I was in NY state back in 2000. The house has a magnificent 360 degree view around it and is accessible via boat only. Very nice!
I love number one but if you get too much rain fall your looking at major damage and possible total loss of your home?. I’d raise it up another 2-3 feet?.
Those houses are amazing. We don't feel want to live far away from the community where many people live close to each other because of unknown intruder. It just not safe today. But we really love to make living that way in peaceful world.
It's a cool location. We live about an hour south from the location (a boat trip to Boldt Castle takes you past it on a tour. On the day we passed this house, there was a little lawn chair next to the front door.. Incidentally, there is no tide on the St. Lawrence River.. it is AT LEAST 400 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, so tides do not affect it. There are a bunch of small islands (1 acre or less - to define the smaller ones) with singles houses, but this one is great!
house No.24. "The house was destroyed several times due to the fluctuating water levels of the river, but the locals restored the local landmark and again, showing everyone an example of human perseverance."
how about some secluded villages in the Himalayas? like Komik for axample... the highest village that connected with motorable road... only about 150 people live in those villages they definetelly deserve to be in the list!!!
1. Is so amazing house...i like it when a house is in the center of the water..... But when there's a heavy rain or bad weather for sure that house goes with the water
My grandparents lived in a former small-town churchhouse they converted into a family home. My mom grew up in that house. They lived on an island where there were only 2 houses including the church and as water levels arouse the mainland farmers stopped using the island for farming fields and cow grassing. So no church goers left - no need for the little churchhouse. We've always had grass or straw roofs on Island and the nearby islands where I grew up. I never new it was that special as we also had those roofs in the places I lived in mainland Scandinavia. And I have grass roof on my house here in Norway now. I didn't know we used grass as a way of saving sparse building material either and its not everywhere here in this region, that has a history of using grass roofs, where wood and roof materials have been sparse.
I'm already nuts so it don't matter! I can join in with the racket with my singing and drum bashing! The waterfall associated humidity is a bit of a problem of course!
This video was really interesting and explained everything I thought that didn’t even exist but when they explained about everything I couldn’t stand there weren’t enough things to convince me so I really believe in these home locations
I'm pretty sure the people living there now wouldn't like to be called demons... The Netherlands has seen a rapid dechristianisation, and now it's only 4% that strongly believe. The rest either is unsure if there even is a higher power, just plays along out of tradition, or is outright atheist (25% and rising). Immigrants will bring their religion with them, usually islam, but the new generations tend to not care about it more often then not.
