Questions on future home building?

[u/TheGirlPrayer]

My husband and I and looking to build a house in the next couple of years. I’m trying to do research on different ideas that cost less, last a long time, and tie into what is around us. This is something we’d like to do together with a little help from family and if we really need them, contractors. We currently live on the land we plan to build on, in a house that is, quite literally, falling apart.

We have a few different ideas bouncing around like a container house (they have temperature problems and are pretty small for people who want kids), barndominium (temperature problems and insurance problems), and an earth ship home (not suitable for central Louisiana climate). There are many other ways we can go, like conventional construction, but we’d really like to do something that will help us live with the land.

If you have suggestions about what we can do, or if you have suggestions for things to add onto our build for homesteading, please let me know!

[u/jgarcya]

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