do best in a quieter, natural setting, since they muffle, rather than block outside noise. These days we can hear our happy chickens clucking outside, the wind in the trees and the occasional airplane overhead. Rain sounds magical on the roof.
Snow melting and sliding off is disconcerting till you realize what the heck that noise is! Strong winds will make a variety of noises as it whips around your round home. It can get noisy, enough said. When the propane installer was working on our stove, it was a tad windy outside and the wind was rippling the roof. I was happily working away on my laptop, and Beau, the propane guy, said “ WELL, if SHE isn’t worried…then I’m not!” I’d already gotten so used to the wind noise, I hadn’t even noticed, but he was a bit worried the yurt was going to blow away!
Our second night in the yurt, we had a massive windstorm with 50+ winds whipping around, driving rain and even a little hail…for seven straight hours. Even though the timbers creaked with the wind, and the noise was INTENSE, I never felt any more worried than I would have been in a stick built home. Sure enough, a neighbor with a conventional home stopped by the next day to make sure we hadn’t blown away, and he said HIS walls were shaking. Go YURT!
Two end notes: 1. Yurts always look bigger inside than they do outside, enjoy shocking people with that fact. 2. Imagine a beautiful log cabin, smelling of wood and nature…and then a modern home with bright, open windows, the sun shining in or rain pattering down…now imagine those two places had a baby , and named it Yurt .
WHY DID WE CHOOSE A YURT?
yurtFAQs.com
Isn’t that “thing” going to BLOW away?
You might have noticed I said a yurt wasn’t for me and Mike, after we stayed in a rustic state park 24’ footer. Our parents were quick to remind us of that as well when yurts popped back up on the radar.
A few things happened - we moved down to the Blue Ridge mountains in Southwest VA, an area packed with hippy culture, down home living and plenty of live bluegrass. We applied for a home mortgage and looked at house after house, with quite a few seeming almost perfect. We found ourselves coming home after tours, all excited…but, invariably we wanted to knock walls down, open up exterior walls with more windows and add big front porches.
One of our dreams was a prefab modern home with a living roof and cool, ecofriendly appliances/interiors. But the ones we liked were considerably out of our range. Typical, right???
So the seed was planted, and yet, we kept pushing to find an already built home that would fit the bill. It just seemed easier. Unfortunately, since we own our own business, were new to the area (thus our client base looked potentially unstable to lenders) and were first time buyers, things at the mortgage office were not going well.
Sooo, we bounced idea after idea, considering everything from owner financing to renting for another year. Yuck!
If you’re considering a yurt, perhaps you know what I mean, when I say we were sick to death of renting, and not having ownership of our own space. Around this time, we had some good friends over for dinner, who own 70+ acres with a vacation home in the area. We talked about the houses that we were looking at, and picked their brains. They mentioned a side plot of land on their property that already had septic, well and electric (i.e. a country goldmine!). We smiled and nodded, but in our stubborn way, were still pushing buying a certain house we had an eye on (we’d spent hours looking at it, and even befriended the neighboring horses). It was a foreclosure, and would need a lot of work, and didn’t have the land we were looking for, but we’d convinced ourselves it wouldn’t be settling. We’d fix it up, then rent it out when we found our dream property.
But you know, life is short. You shouldn’t wait on your dreams any longer than needed. The next day, an idea popped up…. What if we
Snow melting and sliding off is disconcerting till you realize what the heck that noise is! Strong winds will make a variety of noises as it whips around your round home. It can get noisy, enough said. When the propane installer was working on our stove, it was a tad windy outside and the wind was rippling the roof. I was happily working away on my laptop, and Beau, the propane guy, said “ WELL, if SHE isn’t worried…then I’m not!” I’d already gotten so used to the wind noise, I hadn’t even noticed, but he was a bit worried the yurt was going to blow away!
Our second night in the yurt, we had a massive windstorm with 50+ winds whipping around, driving rain and even a little hail…for seven straight hours. Even though the timbers creaked with the wind, and the noise was INTENSE, I never felt any more worried than I would have been in a stick built home. Sure enough, a neighbor with a conventional home stopped by the next day to make sure we hadn’t blown away, and he said HIS walls were shaking. Go YURT!
Two end notes: 1. Yurts always look bigger inside than they do outside, enjoy shocking people with that fact. 2. Imagine a beautiful log cabin, smelling of wood and nature…and then a modern home with bright, open windows, the sun shining in or rain pattering down…now imagine those two places had a baby , and named it Yurt .
WHY DID WE CHOOSE A YURT?
yurtFAQs.com
Isn’t that “thing” going to BLOW away?
You might have noticed I said a yurt wasn’t for me and Mike, after we stayed in a rustic state park 24’ footer. Our parents were quick to remind us of that as well when yurts popped back up on the radar.
A few things happened - we moved down to the Blue Ridge mountains in Southwest VA, an area packed with hippy culture, down home living and plenty of live bluegrass. We applied for a home mortgage and looked at house after house, with quite a few seeming almost perfect. We found ourselves coming home after tours, all excited…but, invariably we wanted to knock walls down, open up exterior walls with more windows and add big front porches.
One of our dreams was a prefab modern home with a living roof and cool, ecofriendly appliances/interiors. But the ones we liked were considerably out of our range. Typical, right???
So the seed was planted, and yet, we kept pushing to find an already built home that would fit the bill. It just seemed easier. Unfortunately, since we own our own business, were new to the area (thus our client base looked potentially unstable to lenders) and were first time buyers, things at the mortgage office were not going well.
Sooo, we bounced idea after idea, considering everything from owner financing to renting for another year. Yuck!
If you’re considering a yurt, perhaps you know what I mean, when I say we were sick to death of renting, and not having ownership of our own space. Around this time, we had some good friends over for dinner, who own 70+ acres with a vacation home in the area. We talked about the houses that we were looking at, and picked their brains. They mentioned a side plot of land on their property that already had septic, well and electric (i.e. a country goldmine!). We smiled and nodded, but in our stubborn way, were still pushing buying a certain house we had an eye on (we’d spent hours looking at it, and even befriended the neighboring horses). It was a foreclosure, and would need a lot of work, and didn’t have the land we were looking for, but we’d convinced ourselves it wouldn’t be settling. We’d fix it up, then rent it out when we found our dream property.
But you know, life is short. You shouldn’t wait on your dreams any longer than needed. The next day, an idea popped up…. What if we
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