Family wraps home in greenhouse to warm up Stockholm weather
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- The average temperature in Stockholm in January is -3°C (27°F). For Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto it can be much warmer thanks to the greenhouse that blankets their home.
“For example at the end of January it can be -2°C outside and it can be 15 to 20°C upstairs,” explains Sacilotto. He was inspired to build a house-in-a-greenhouse through his relationship with architect Bengt Warne who began designing the first Naturhus (Nature House) in 1974*.
Originally Sacilotto looked for an empty lot to build an entirely new Naturhus, but he eventually settled on an old summer house on the Stockholm archipelago. Using Warne’s design, he covered the small summer house, plus an addition, in 4 millimeter glass. The footprint of the greenhouse is nearly double that of the home, leaving plenty of room for a wrap-around garden, and since inside the bubble it’s a Mediterranean climate, the couple now grow produce atypical for Sweden (e.g. figs, tomatoes, cucumbers).
The favorite spot is the glass-covered roof deck. Since there’s no longer need for a roof, the couple removed it and now have a large space for sunbathing, reading or playing with their son on swings and bikes.
The greenhouse isn’t the only novel point to the Granmar-Sacilotto home. They are also completely independent from city sewage. Built by Sacilotto- an engineer by training-, the sewage system begins with a urine-separating toilet and uses centrifuges, cisterns, grow beds and garden ponds to filter the water and compost the remains.
* In the video, Granmar mentions architect Bengt Warne's influence in the 1990s since this is the date he reached a larger audience with his book release.
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whao i can't imagine how cool is to stay on the terrace when is raining.
+Dumy Jobby y granizando, and hailing.
+Dumy Jobby Inside any greenhouse in the rain is very loud.
DrHillbillyShow for someone that could be a problem, i have a few friends that find stressful the noise that rain makes, meanwhile ijust love it, It relax me so much
+Dumy Jobby I love that idea. I've always loved the rain.
+Dumy Jobby lol literally no one finds the sound of rain stressful.
"I'm going to wash the windows honey. See you around autumn!"
Lol
Have a nice trip, see you next fall
Oh darn... perfection thawerted again. 😎
TheBushdoctor68
Good one. So funny.
Pammie from Chicago
Exactly what I was thinking! 😁😁 Plus am I missing something or is playing basketball in a greenhouse not the best idea? Even the top glass made 4mm thick really doesn't sound very strong!
I love this housing idea for a lot of reasons.
1. Keeping warm during cold winter in high latitude is really necessary.
2. If people are concerned with molding on wooden house, then simply open glassed windows during the summer.
3. Enhanced more safety from burglars (I love the idea of having double locking doors to keep inside home secure).
4. Terrace can be useful 24-7 without rain or snow disturbance!
5. Planting inside the property without disturbance from intruding animals is beneficial.
If glasses are breaking from sudden earthquake or any environmental hazards, then substitute those glassed windows with plastics. There are obvious pros and cons, but I applaud this whole green house home idea.
To 1. Only if sun is shining
Also it must be extremely noisy when it rains.
@@Nikoo033 I think it will be less noisy inside the house becose the water is no falling directly on the house.
Being able to sit "outside" when windy, rainy, cold ... what a great idea! Vents necessary, but my, I'd love that.
I would love to watch the rain under the glass.
Jason Deutschbein Ik it would be sooo cool
Top environment comment on TH-cam EVER!
The rain wouldn't get under the glass.
@@count7340 Grammar nazis, go away please.
@@silentndeadly :)
I would love to see a video of this house in the dead of winter.
Maurizio Esposito boggles the mind " dead of the winter , northern lights , and some aqua vita .
In the dead of winter... Please pass my Corona and a slice of lime.
Growing up the north it would likely be quite warm. A foot of snow creates a wonderfull blanket of insulation. With heat already trapped I'm sure it won't be cold.
Well, I heard her say -20c warms up to -10c. It gets -30 to -40 where I live. Would still need a roof, insulation and heat. Lol, I guess this is not suitable for a Canadian winter! I wondered.
@@monmixer Their insulation is about a metre thick, and air is quite a good one.
I love the idea of stepping out of my house. Not being rained on , and sitting in my garden without buges, snow, sleet in Illinois in December this would be a unique experience for Christmas.
I Live in IL too and Imagine being able to watch the snow falling... or just looking up at the stars at night...
Or pooped on by birds
love how she's sneaking in cleaning the house as they film.
About 40 years or so ago, Mother Earth News published a story about a family in England who put a dome shaped greenhouse over their trailer home. It worked well enough that even during an English winter with snow on the ground around the dome, they were comfortable enough inside to be wearing shorts and tee shirts inside the dome. This is an outstanding expansion of the basic idea. Thanks for sharing this.
Sounds good to me!
Fantastic idea!
England isn't cold!
The wife said in the video that during the winter there is only about a 10C difference between the outdoor and indoor temperature so they still need heating.
@@warrenyazzie9975 Is she saying that difference is achieved passively with body heat and British winter sunlight? The added insulating factor of the greenhouse will make heating the home far more efficient, plus the greenhouse will be passively heated by their home, much like a conservatory but better. horticulturists understand the cost in energy of heating a greenhouse separately. I'm surprised this isn't more common among smallholders/homesteaders in temperate climates.
This is pretty hardcore. I thought it ended with the green house, but man's built that whole toilet system. That's pretty impressive and nothing to shit on. Pun intended
People who live in glass houses don't throw stones, they throw parties.
Even if they do, they have security glass! ;D
This is just incredible. I thought the husband was an engineer, from the way he talked. He really knows what he's doing. What a great way to live!
I really wonder what he studied, because based on the video it seems like he forgot that radon exists.
Yay lung cancer! Am I right?
@@benghazi4216 Plus a daily dose of Stress from worrying about Weather area. Wind over 70 can happen yearly anywhere . Stress cause cancer also. Putting up a load of Garlic grouth would help may be.
@@trafficjon400 I think radioactive decay is worse for you cancer-wise than stress. It's like a different ball game all together.
But I agree, stress is terrible for you.
But which unit are you thinking of? Here in Sweden we count it in m/s, so 70 never happens, if you don't build it on a mountain and wait for record winds
This is actually an older design. Many years ago in the Artic (near the North Pole), they built a larger dome greenhouse over the top of a slightly smaller dome greenhouse, with air exchanges on both levels in order to maintain a temperature range.... and they realized they could use the same concept to build large-scale double-greenhouses or even triple-greenhouses over plots of land, and then they could even grow plants during certain times of the year.
Is there any further information about that experiment?
Who are "they," in what you're referencing? I'd love to know more. :)
Yes, "they" were U.S. based organizations, with U.S. funding and government assistance, but the actual organization, I don't recall who it was, because it was information I gathered at a public library back in the 1990s... so it was awhile ago. But I remember being fascinated by how such a simple design let them maintain temperatures in such extreme climates.
But don't worry, there has been plenty of useful technology and innovation that has never made it to the mainstream.
But if someone else fails to do anything with it, and you have the ambition, then file a patent and take it to the market, and you shall be rewarded financially for your effort and vision.
We are from another planet. We mean you no harm.
I really like that idea. I think if I put that around my house, it would probably catch on fire in the summer, though. lol
I am interested though, about using this concept from the beginning in architecting a new home. And maybe at the technological extreme, I could have glass that changes color to block light during the summer. And having a larger overall volume where the inside/outside is controlled a lot more than a normal home, I'm thinking it should be easier to maintain a constant temperature, at least in some core space within the property.
i think the panels are able to be removed or stacked up in summer
NickRoman
I've always thought that glass is one of the most underutilised of human inventions. I believe it could solve so many many problems with the way that human beings interact with the Earth.
I agree!
Cost.
Truth
Care to elaborate a bit more
@@GavxOnline the monetary and environmental costs of mass production and widespread use of other materials is surely higher
personally I think that this house is amazing
would been nice to see the house surrounded by snow
I hope the book includes that or they release another video this winter.
That's a super cool idea to wrap the house in a green house..... So cool!
Seek and you shall find ✨️. It crossed my mind the other day, to create a greenhouse surrounding a self statainable home. I love how environmentally thoughtful this home is. Inspiring!
Same thing happened to me!
Post some videos on TH-cam of the house :)
This takes wrapping your couch in plastic to a whole new level!
I love how this literalizes the saying about glass houses.
Quite interesting, but a little to isolated for me, you won't feel the wind or hear the bords, unless outside, and there must hundreds of insects trapped every summer!
You raise an interesting point about external soynds. I have heard blue jays so loud, that I've wanted to tape their beaks! I imagine they could open the dkuding glass doors to feel a breeze, but they are in a Nordic country, and the inside can reach -10°, she said. I love it! 💕😊💕
Oops! "external sounds" and "sliding " glass doors.
Yes, maybe so, but to me it's an akward way of saving energy, if any in the end. I know you can go outside, but it's too prisonlike ;)
Who like's to dress up like the Stay Puff Marshmallow man everyday, on the week-ends you can read your paper on the roof and watch the snowflakes fall from the sky. They probably see Northern lights also.
Exactly. It is too isolated, or confined. I don't think I could do this due to my claustrophobia.
It sounds like many wanted to see it in the winter. Its close to 4 years later. Is there a video of it in the winter?
If you go to the message above ur and click the kickstarter link you will c a video of it in january with some snow on the ground. Its like 3 minutes.
Yep! 5 years later
Why winter?) What wrong with winter?)
@@user-cb3ui9wt9i we want to see how it performs in the snow they get. Sweden gets a lot of snow and does not get very warm in the summer either.
@@robveselovsky2461 Many times its just a white box beqause of the humidity. Just ask the neighbours
If I had to live in a place with long Winters this would definitely be the way to go!
You could have a crazy hotbox sesh In there
my man...
You could also grow a sufficient supply in there. All in one.
You could also grow alot of good munchies. This just keeps getting better.
Oh fuck😍
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What?!!! THIS is AWESOME!!!!! extraordinary.... I am so glad I saw this...
they should have gone back to visit again in the winter.
And summer too. I bet they sweat like crazy in summer in there.
@@shizukagozen777 If at least on third of the windows can be opened, the summer excess heat can be ventilated naturally
@@kwisatzHaderash
OK but you can't leave the windows opened all the time. During the night or when you have to go outside, you have to close and when you come back, BAM, you cook like a chicken in a oven ! 🍗
shizukagozen777 this is why we won’t ever have a female president
@@shizukagozen777 why cant you leave the windows open? Of course you can. You csn.leave them open all summer if you like.
Star gazing year round in the comfort of controlled temperatures. I love this !
Now that's what I call a smart house. I can see a lot of opportunities living like this, adding solar panels and more growing plants for food items. It's really an amazing house.
I discovered this channel 2 hours ago, and I think it's already one of my favourites. I absolutely LOVE the innovative ideas you cover :)
When you decide to build your minecraft house in real life.
They say “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks.”
I’ve never taken it so literally until now
TonightsGame App ... that sounds heavy and complicated. Would need a catapult or trebuchet. And to they have to be in the act of coitus? Or can you just throw several participants individually? These important questions demand answers.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MY DREAM HOUSE! Isn't it lovely to watch the rain from the balcony without getting wet?
any breeze possibility with the greenhouse? love having my windows open for fresh air to pass thru
dmagin777 they don't need ME in there after eating some taco bell 😆
I was thinking the same thing, and in summer it would be a liability for cooling costs unless you could cover the roof.
Or like any typical greenhouse, you open the vents on the top and allow the hot air to escape?
Matthew Kleid, they had certains on the inside of the glass ceilings to block light.
They certainly had curtains ;)
Wow. A kind of dream house. In the middle of winter it must really feel like other worldly with snow all around.
Beautiful! Thank you to the family for sharing their wonderful home with us. :)
this is an amazing idea, but it would be awesome to have a yard inside the green house
This family in Denmark do: www.bolius.dk/de-bor-i-et-glashus-34138/
Sweet =)
S G ~ Thanks for the link, I enjoyed the pictures!
A lot of windows to wash...
I know. How do they clean the top if a bird poops?
rain
Yeah, but then how do they clean the rain off?
Answer me that, smarty pants!
***** sun
#LOLED
I first saw this video 5 years ago and it, literally, changed my life.
This is hardly a new concept for Sweden. Back in the mid 1970's there was an article in a magazine called New Shelter that dealt with a mobile home where they had encased it in a greenhouse. The concept makes total sense since it mitigates the temperature inside the home by using the interspace as a thermal barrier and in addition employs solar heat when the sun is out. In the summer the greenhouse has panels that open up to bleed off the excess energy. The greenhouse surrounding the mobile home was constructed in such a way as to allow for the planting of a vegetable garden which resulted in a considerably longer growing season.
They mention that in the video, like two minutes in.
@@sanitychelle They mention 1990s, but yeah. Nobody claiming it to be exactly new as a concept.
My question which nobody ever talks about is the expensive cost of living like this! I'm talking about the utilities just the actual cost of the structure!
80000€ expensive ?... i'm sure you can even reduce the end bill by doing stuff yourself...
The property/land on which the house stands is always much more expensive than the house itself in Stockholm anyways
Då får man bygga den Norrland ;)
Not for long, how many welfare migrants can the swedish welfare system handle? Sweden is going to turn into a 3rd world country.
I was watching a video of a person ask people on the street in Sweden if they tought there was a limit to how many migrants Sweden could take in. They all said no (mostly women). What do you think would happen if you moved all the poor people from Africa to Sweden? No limit remember. Think they will all become rich or Sweden will turn into Somalia?
atnfn troll somewhere else, Swedish economy is doing well.
There was a design study, where polycarbonate was used instead of glass. It worked so well, that people had to ventilate in the winter too.
This is the future of insulation in the northern parts of the world.
A closed box doesn't "breathe" as a house normally should. it's vital to ventilate so mold doesn't form
Its genius.
The green house is an amaizing idea! Very kind of this family to share it with the world. Really hard working people. I love the idea of being self sufficient!
Reminds me of Sandys's hous ein Spongebob.
Nice house though! ♥️🏡
Looks like they love to clean windows.. :D
I've often dreamt of someday building something like this...the top floors of the home would have no ceiling to allow for insulated growing areas for medicine and fruiting plants, and the garden mote around the house would be filled with leafy veggies and flowers, with companion plants spread out all over, and maybe one of those Beecosystem Hives on the inside of the greenhouse glass in the back corner for pollination...definitely a great idea either way :)
+Theo M. I really like that idea, a sturdy flat garden roof. Automatically watered with rain water, from the greenhouse roof. Aided by grey water from the house when needed. Also a cube house is easier to heat and cool especially with the added thermal barriers.
In the USA it'd be hard to get a house like that approved though, unless far in the country.
Kuvter Instead of attics, we should just have the 3rd story of homes be a greenhouse with a properly pitched roof...save yourself some yard space and the headaches of cleaning a dusty attic. Some cities are starting to charge for 'runoff' for roofs without gutters and paved surfaces...water harvesting greenhouse gutters would prevent runoff, perhaps reducing those fees. All the more reason :)
Theo M. That sounds great, and cheaper. No need to completely surround the house. And for those who don't like gardening the roof could still be a porch with a few easy to maintain plants to improve the air quality.
+Theo M. Damn! nice idea. i'm gonna write that down, sounds like a winner. Sort of like those earthship or whatever houses with attached greenhouses. I like the roof idea better.
+Theo M. build an Earthship like the ones in New Mexico
Absolutely love everything about this house / green house idea's including the waste management system(s).. 10/10.... A good clip & many thanks for showing your home.
Some people do so much for the world like this couple and you for bringing them to us
I'm sure the birds fucking *love* this.
Billy Lynch, I need to ask, since you used the F word as a filler word, has swearing become so socially acceptable you think it's cool to use it on a public forum? Just wondering why some people use the F word for every part of speech when there are thousands of other choice words that when used describe so much better how one feels or thinks. This is a legitimate question, Billy. I'm not being snarky.
F R Schatz You sound like a fucking english teacher.
Nope. I'm not an English teacher. Tell your mother she is f-ing beautiful, and listen if she actually says thank you. If you can't say it to your mother don't write it on public access places.
F R Schatz get a grip, people sware in thier vids all the time for fucks sake
Vegan Stains, yes they do. The word is so over used it communicates nothing. For example, the phrase, 'for f...s sake' expresses no meaning. It's a wasteland.
someone call the windex factory they need to move nextdoor to the house lmao
Why isn’t this more commonplace? This is brilliant
Because you can't possibly cool the interior, during summers, the lack of ventilation is life-threatening, and it's too expensive to maintain, or reconstruct.
@@ForestNinjaZero Exactly. How much would a greenhouse this size cost? Like 2-$300,000?
Mum: Go and play outside
Kids: Umm, which outside? Outside outside or outside inside house outside? mid inside?
Mum: erm, yeah. One of those.
I can only imagine how many birds slam into this house every year....
That's exactly what I scrolled down to comment about. I was going to ask how many animals walk into the glass every month. I wasn't really thinking about birds as much as just animals on foot when they walk up they might think they could come right in
:-( id like to think the lines from the metal structure holding up the glass could be enough to ward birds from flying into the house
@@OMGIGILY Unfortunately it wouldn't. Birds don't need a lot of space to fly through something and these metal structure is the same as branches of a tree or something like that. As long as there seems to be air between it they will crash into the glass. Even the glass directly in front of the house walls will reflect the sky if you look from a specific ankle. Also these black stickers which imitated birds of prey don't work in every case, because the black foil appears just white or shiny at daylight.🙄
Natural selection will eventually do its thing and birds will learn to identify greenhouses and not fly near them.
DeadlyDanDaMan here where I am silly birds fly into even smallish windows (they see their reflection) so people put stickers on random spots on the windows so they can “see” the windows.
Wow I kinda love this idea! Maybe one day I'd like to build my own tiny house. But the problem is I want to hang out outside too. But it gets so cold... So if i had a greenhouse around my tiny house, I could hang out outside in winter!
I can wrap my head around this idea. I live in NJ. I love the seasons but I would love to have this option to live with spring like weather all year. Brilliant.
Beautiful home i would have one myself i LOVE this home it in inspired me with many ideas thank you Kirsten greatly appreciated
I wish you could show more houses like this Kirsten!! Thank you, l just love your channel!!
the rain and hail must get SO loud
I wonder how this would work with those geothermal heating tubes I’ve seen being used in the northern US states. Very cool! Maybe I can do this with a tiny house 😂
How captivating! Thank you for sharing your home with us.
Very nice. I would like to see this house in wet and snowy weather.
Amazing. I had this idea years ago, great to see there are people 'crazy' enough to actually do it.
2:37 The subtitles "It was a big lot with a small tea house"
"Maison d'été" (Summer home) and not "Maison de thé" (Tea home)
Not a big deal, just kinda jumped out at me...
Very interesting concept.
My grandmother does the same thing by leaving the thick, clear plastic covering the sofa.
I think its a great idea. We should all live in a bubble ^_^
Missing words and punctuation......Yes, you seem like someone I should put my faith in.
sTop criticisink peupole"s grahmar,
you spelleded banana wrong
my family farts too much to have a dome around the house.
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Close to all of the elements, but in a beautiful way without two pairs of long-johns, and grow some food, too! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! And took me a minute to understand the shade cloth on the slides (a great idea) - this is really some forward thinking. BRAVO!
OMG! I have wanted to do this since childhood. I lived near a set of massive green houses.
They were left for ruin while I was a child. So I dreamt about using them as a house as they fell into ruin. I'm so happy for you. To see my dream come true somewhere, even though I will never actually live in it. I'm so happy for you and your dream home!
wow this is amazing these people might be ahead of the game. as the atmosphere changes this concept may be a window into our future
Looks great in winter but have you been in a greenhouse on summer day? It's suffocating.
I filmed in the summer and it was nice. Though granted it wasn't a very hot day, but this is in Sweden.
Kirsten Dirksen oooh Fanccccy ;)
Sweden barely has a summer :P But then again you can open up the green house?
Yeah they explain it at 3:24. Smart project.
Even when you open it, it heats up significantly more than a regular house would.
The best thing is how many tropical plants you could keep in there and let them grow big, If I had such a house I would turn it into a tropical jungle.
She literally said it's not a tropical green house 17:01
Fascinating, brilliant and incredibly eco-friendly. I love it, well done!!
It's not just a philosophy of life as he says, it's a privilege to be able to afford a green life! But I love the idea
So many of the zealots forget this, they demand people live a certain way not caring that they do not have the money.
@@eggcluckWhat are you referring to?
Yes I agree. All those glass I am sure she don’t wash it by her self
SuWoopSparrow to all the green zealots trying to force a green life style on everyone???
@@jamesbizsIt's not expensive to live a green life. It actually costs you not to live a green life.
Can everyone afford to make a "greenhouse home"? No. But doing so isn't whats going to save the planet. No "zealot" is asking you to go out and do that.
Two large influences on climate change are agriculture and manufacturing.
The US, for example, eats too much meat and wastes too much meat. Eat less, produce less. That's not expensive. That saves you money. You don't lose anything. Meat is incredibly intensive to create. Doesn't mean you have to stop eating meat. Just stop wasting it and overconsuming it. No one needs a 32oz steak 3 days a week.
Switching from fossil fuels to green energy saves you money long term. Wouldn't have even cost anything for these coal miners to switch. Obama created a stimulus package and wanted to give it to these midwestern coal miners to retrain and reinvest into green energy. They didn't want it.
Money isn't the issue. Lazy complacency is.
My first thought is how do you control humidity in this building? Humidity over 50% can result in problems with mold, mildew, rot and dust mites.
imagine, there is so much free space making the air natural way circulating all around - no good conditions for mold etc
additionally - they have ventilation system included :)
they literally explain this in the fucking video god damn
Glad to know I wasn't the only one thinking along these lines.
@cyberfloater you saying "putted" putted me off!!
Thank You for showing your house! Very Nice 🌸💐🌸
It has a very nice look to it.
The "small tea house" (2:35) is probably a "small summer house". The French-speaking man speaks French very well, but he does have a small accent. Hence the confusion between "maison de thé" (tea house) and "maison d'été" (summer house).
+uytteb Thank you. My fault for doing my own subtitling. She does make the point in English that it was an old summer house.
That's all right, you did a really good job apart from this small error. And thanks for another interesting video!
+uytteb You beat me to it. Mind you, it made me laugh when I saw it, so maybe it should remain as it is!
+Kirsten Dirksen Are you fluent in French?
my french is non existent but i found the translation very peculiar. now i know why.
My local seagulls would make quick work of this, they'd probably do it for a laugh, my seagulls are intimidating thieves
I would let the seagulls in! Hahaha
and intimidating vandals those seagulls :-))
How fantastic..I would love a greenhouse house, especially here in the UK when it rains often
Wow, I didn't realize the winters in northeast PA are very similar in length to that in Stockholm. My very first thought when seeing a greenhouse *around* a house was: "I could actually GROW things in that!" which is a big problem I have here in the mountains of NE PA. Our summers are so short we barely have time to grow. I had thought about a greenhouse before, but never in a million years did I consider a greenhouse AROUND my entire house! It's a strange concept, but very clever, for many reasons. I'm sure it saves a bundle of money on the maintenance you'd usually spend on the outside of a house as well... roof, siding, paint, things of that nature. I wonder if this also adds a certain amount of home security as well? Having another layer to get through before getting into the house must be a challenge most burgulars would probably pass up. (lol)
And really... how nice would that be to go outside your home on a sunny winter day and still have green plants! That is the part I find most attractive... I could even see having yet another greenhouse on the property for a small pool / bathing area with lots of plants around it, creating a tropical sort of environment.
if you used bulletproof glass, you could hide there during zombie apocalypse xD
My thoughts exactly!
But when I think about it, almost all houses are zombie proof except for windows or some doors.
It's not bullet proof, it's the same as in car, made up of layers, if it breaks it breaks into tiny pieces.
hence "if you used"
but with this, you could still go outside without worrying about zombies
i love the idea but imagine having to clean the bird crap off those windows
Matty M wouldn’t be hard to do once a month with a large mop/squeegee.
Large windshield wipers
Pressure washer, baby!
We use an automated system to spray the birds in a 1 mile radius with round up. Keeps our windows squeaky clean!
Tie a bottle of windex to a drone
WOW! Really interesting and thanks for sharing! I’d love to go there and see first hand what it feels like to be inside or outside the house and be able to view nature right thru the glass. Far out! I wonder if they see wild life around as they enjoy coffee in the morning. What a great way to wake up, open your bedroom door to the outside world being protected from the rain etc. and sip coffee. The sliding glass doors were ideal also!👍
Wow, just imagine how nice this house is in the summer with the family out on that land. I would be out with the kids, maybe have a game of baseba- ok maybe not that but maybe driving some golf ba- uhm... hmm, sit on my hands. I would sit on my hands in the sun...
Bahahaha
Zak Farley haha ya I guess hey. Would be great for hobbies like music, art, woodwork, gardening. Not for most sports, though
Zak Farley 😂😂😂 yeah good idea. play ball and freeze in the winter😨😨😨
or... you could go somewhere else to play :P surely a couplr hundred meters walk wont exhaust you completely, especially if you're into sports haha
you did not watch the whole thing, the glass is very strong, a 4mm security glass, I don't think baseball could break it. a golf ball maybe can if it goes fast enough, those things are like rocks.
Fascinating. I wonder how often they need to clean the glass.
Kids: Mum can we go outside?
Mum: You are outside.
Kids: No really.
I always wanted to do this with a dome over my house. This is awesome!!!
better not throw stones in that house
...any house!
it was a joke. There is a common saying that goes "better not throw stones if you live in a glass house"
Good one Thomas Fraind! lol 😆
The correct saying is "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" :)
have you ever heard of plexiglass ?
good experiment for mars colony.
Yes!!!
you must feel so cozy when its rainy or snowy outside like you have a protective bubble from the elements
I love all your videos. I'm curious how you find so many interesting homes
...You know, I would love to see a cost breakdown of this. The cost of building such a greenhouse may seem prohibitively expensive, but if a person were to do it with cost in mind, and use insulating plastics instead of glass, the cost of components needed to build the actual home would also go down dramatically. There are no elements which it has to face. From the ground up, you could probably build something like this for around the same price as a regular home. And the enlarged roof would work really well for solar production as well.
This is brilliant. I'm fascinated
Christeen easily pleased
holy sh!t. I had this idea back in the 80s!!! I wanted to do something like this but on a bigger scale. where you can actually go outside on the grounds with a pool , etc.
we don't have a pool anymore lol, glad you like our house
Perfect solution! We used to have a huge sun room on our south side and it kept our home heated during the day all winter!
Imagine the costs/time of keeping all that glass clean..
please no ball playing!!😂😂😂
Don't give the kids a slingshot for birthday
There's goes the heat.
Colt 45 zag please kids dont throw those rocks youll crack a window ...
-Wesley P Someone shot the school with a gun and the bullet is still lodged in the glass. Why the FUCK had the school left the bullet there???? And why dose USA have problems with school shootings agen. Maby it's for reasons like this where there is no respect for the act of violence. If this happend where I live I'm sure they had removed bullets or atleast made them not visible before just returning to normal agen.
Maybe as proof that it's a waste. Like, you wouldn't keep more than a few such windows with bullets inside, but one can stand there as proof.
I always loved staying inside greemhouses, so i would love to live inside of it!
A house with no roof . Brilliant!
It looks like a pane in the glass
nice.
Danielchai S -Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!! Good one!
Danielchai S
Very funny
I love this idea like a house in a bubble. Would be a great addition to a tiny home. In Germany many of the downtown buildings have 'skin' glass covers to keep them both warm and cool at the right times. How big is the house? It looks huge and for only 3 people. Also why are there so few windows on the actual house?
Thanks for sharing Kirstin.
Your films are both interesting and inspiring!
Scarlett
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The house itself is an old summer house which used to be barely heated when lived in during the summer and most of the time spent outside, the insulation is mostly to not freeze over in the winter and being "cooler" than the outside in the summer.
My guess they like the old style, also glass windows tend to leak a lot of heat, which is not really appreciated during the coldest time of the year with -20 C.
Glass shell is usually there to mitigate/buffer the heat to transfer to the outside.
+How to Grow a Garden with Scarlett Damen it's a great concept but architecturally the house is a bit of a disaster. looks like a half finished new build.
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I'm Canadian and we should all do this.
+How to Grow a Garden with Scarlett Damen Correction: in Germany not
"many of the downtown buildings" but less than one in thirty thousand,
is in my experience a little MORE accurate Scarlett.
If they would in fact have glass on their south sides (not north) then they could save energy, but the government in Germany cannot cope with advances in "science" making it "verboten" to heat your house by putting glass on southern sides without going through the official and costly channels. Presently home owners are not even allowed to drink rainwater in Germany - it is also VERBOTEN, as is not having an official waste pipe. So you will now be able to understand the present (2015 12 22) mentality prevailing in the Fatherland!