Ok, so maybe not a horror show but pretty freaking frustrating. It has only become funny now that I am done and writing about it. When I was on the phone with banks.... not so funny. I read about other peoples experiences trying to get money to build their unusual houses. Horror stories of people building "green" homes like the straw bale and sand bag earthship homes using just multiple credit cards as a way to borrow money. Why did they do it? Because banks wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. They kept spread sheets and were constantly playing a shell game of moving debt around to reduce their interest rates, not ruin their credit and still manage to build their unusual homes. This was something we were absolutely NOT going to do. Then again, we are also using an established construction company (building since the early 1960's) and not just stacking found materials ourselves to make an earthship house. Honestly though.... its a good thing Mr. Dometastic has a...
Building a monolithic dome home in a small Connecticut town. Follow the ups and downs of building a round house in a town where houses with all straight lines are the norm.