Hummm now here's a thought. What do you all think of THESE??

[Brutuskend]

house

I was thinking about buying a fixer upper, or MAYBE a mobile home o) but now I'm concidering maybe one of these.

I think I can get a KILLER deal on some land, and build one of these. (Or put up a "Manufactured Home")

What do you think???

 

[PsychoAndy]

you want to live in a donut.....

(sorry, I took that from BHC:2 and turned it into a brutuskend joke )

-PAB

 

[aphex]

Round houses scare me for some reason.....

 

[loup garou]

The floorplan on this page looks like something from Star Wars. Take that as you may.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
house

I was thinking about buying a fixer upper, or MAYBE a mobile home o) but now I'm concidering maybe one of these.

I think I can get a KILLER deal on some land, and build one of these. (Or put up a "Manufactured Home")

What do you think???

I would drag a mobile home to a piece of land before doing any kind of "innovative building." A mobile home will always have good rental potential when you move on to another house in a few years, and be an excellent tax write-off, upon forming your own propery rental company to rent it out.

 

[Rallispec]

interesting..... not my thing though

 

[Eli]

I think it's cool.

 

[gopunk]

is this another one of your jokes?

 

[Chaotic42]

I think it's neat. I'm into the custom home thing.

 

[IGBT]

They look functional..get refrences. See how satisfied customers are...

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: werk
The floorplan on this page looks like something from Star Wars. Take that as you may.

I like it!

 

[datalink7]

I know someone who lived in one for two years.

He said it was really great and wished he could still live in one.

 

[Whitecloak]

hahahah

good one

 

[dfi]

Looking at the commercial building... reminds me of prison.

Some prisons are constructed in a circular shape, with a watchtower in the center (covered in one way mirrors) so that the guard can effectively watch all the prisoners, without the prisoners knowing if they are being watched. I suppose if you want your employees to feel like prisoners...

dfi

 

[BooneRebel]

If you're sure it's what you want and you plan on living in it until you die. Seriously. Otherwise, you are looking at a very poor resale value. Look at the homes around the property. If you build a comparable home then you're looking at a pretty good investment. A mobile home is just going to depreciate. And while there are several sound structural designs outside the ordinary (yurts, domes, etc.), you'll find that when it comes time to sell you'll have a hard time. Both real estate agents and potential buyers will shy away from 'different'.

However, with that being said: If you are not concerned with resale value, go for it. Like I mentioned, if this is a retirement or lifelong home then it doesn't matter. If the land deal is really killer, you could look at this as a startup home to be used as a rental in the future when you build a larger home somewhere else on the property when you have more capital.

 

[bizmark]

as someone with an oddly shaped room, I can say that it's a bitch to furnish. Like, the bed won't lay flat against the wall. I've got my desk at an odd angle. My 'corners' are not 90 degrees, leading to wasted space if I want to put anything (shelf, file cabinet, minidfridge, dresser, whatever) there. Etc etc. etc. Those look like cool homes, but I think that the lack of right angles would keep me from looking seriously at a building like this.

 

[yakko]

I think it looks pretty cool.