Building Your Own Hobbit Hole

Alien54 writes "Sometimes people go too far in being a fan of a great movie or of a great book. Now you can be the proud owner of a Hobbit Hole. The site offers basic plans, as well as technical resources. For example, one thing you might want to consider in your planning is Large Elliptical Precast Concrete Pipe."

Comments

Building permit?

[walt-sjc]

Might be a tad bit of a problem getting a building permit.

I can stand up

[SlugLord]

It's good to see they've scaled the hole up to human size... That would be an expensive playhouse otherwise...

Been there, done that

[MacAndrew]

You know, a lot of people were way ahead of the curve on this business of living in sewer pipes. Ironically, they are known as the homeless.

So when yuppies want to abandon their nice cozy frame houses for sewer pipes, may I propose they kill two birds with one stone and just trade?

Re:Sounds cozy, unless...

[domninus.DDR]

thats 12 feet "equivalent circular diameter", how high is that turned on its side ?

Curved Floors

[lommer]

I have to say, it does sound somewhat cool (if slightly OTT) to have someone build a habitable hobbit hole. Yet when I looked at your floor plans, I gave up on it.

Your fantastic elliptical tubing is still leaves you with the problem of curved floors. There are 3 solutions to this. 1) fill the room with enough dirt/concrete/whatever so that you make a flat floor. But this severely reduces you headroom, which is already at a premium. 2) Cut open the tubes and only use the top half + some square walls. But here you loose all of the advantages of prefab that you mentioned. 3) live with curved floors. While you might be able to live comfortably, the only place with enough headroom will be in the middle of the room. As well, anyone who has ever had to pick out furniture for a curved wall can tell you what a pain it is; furnature for a curved floor would be a nightmare, it would all have to be custom and wouldn't be easily relocatable within the room.

One other thing, do you have an entrance/exit othe than the garage?

Re:Imaginations

[deek]

• But when a grown adult man daydreams about living in an underground wizard cave instead of about girls, money, and cars, I believe that there is a problem.

Wow ... so in other words, if we don't daydream about girls, money, and cars, you consider the person flawed. Am I the only one that thinks this is really sad? I would say that we should dream of who we want to be. If that dream involves a female companion, being filthy rich, or owning a stable of high performance machines ... then so be it. But if you dream of other things, then that dream is a worthy goal because it is you who dreamed it. Moreover if others dream differently to you, then don't chide them, but respect their dream for what it is. Your dream is not the only one, after all.

DeeK

Re:Imaginations

[mstyne]

You, sir, are a fucking idiot.

Building permits are for humans!

[mkweise]

As anyone who's read the book knows, hobbits do not accept human authority in any way, shape or form. They generally like to stay out of sight of humans, particularly the tax collecting and permit inspecting variety - and living in a hole in the ground certainly is consistant with that end.

Hope you're only 4 feet tall then...

[t0mmyb]

12 feet is the "circular equivalent diameter" of their biggest pipe... which I read as the diameter of the circumscribed circle around this elliptical shape. Cut that circle in half, and we've only got six feet.

Since we're dealing with an ellipse, cutting it along its major axis will give us even less than that for headroom.

Hobbits only, please.