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Building Your Own Hobbit Hole

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the joke-or-simple-obsession dept.

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."

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  1. Building permit? by walt-sjc · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  2. Been there, done that by MacAndrew · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

  3. Curved Floors by lommer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

  4. Re:Imaginations by deek · · Score: 4, Insightful
    • 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
  5. Re:Imaginations by mstyne · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You, sir, are a fucking idiot.

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    mstyne: real name, no gimmicks