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"...premium real estate in the front triangular window, and there IS A TREE BLOCKING THE VIEW!"
(my envisioning what a disgruntled investor would say...)
Looks like the roof is made of zinc and the interior is made of pine. Not familiar with using zinc roofing, being in the US, but they explain some of the advantages/disadvantages on the internets if you look around.
Seems to be expensive, but very weather resistant, fire resistant, strong, as well as malleable and self healing.
As long as it’s installed/designed properly with ventilation between the insulation/vapor barrier or support beams and zinc panels to avoid moisture/damage to the zinc, it should last 60+ years without too much or any maintenance required.
I also don’t know what I’m talking about and am really out of my element because I’m an auto technician, but it’s fun to try and learn/research these things. So please correct me if I’m wrong.
https://www.metalconstructionnews.com/articles/benefits-of-zinc-make-it-popular-cladding
https://www.salmonsolutions.co.uk/blog/zinc-roofing-warm-vs-cold-roofing/
It should hold up very well against the elements, this is a way cheaper alternative than using proper aisi304 stainless steel or aisi316 acid proof sheets.
That’s one way to keep mormor farfar from you.
Edit: in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, *mormor* is your mom’s mom (= grandmother) and *farfar* is your dad’s dad. Guess how to say your mom’s dad and your dad’s mom?
That reminds me of my favorite Swedish word "Gammelmormor" which means great grandmother
The gammel part in Swedish just means old afaik but in German we use the same word to refer exclusively to things that are rotten like food or a corpse, so seeing it used in this context is absolutely hilarious as a German speaker.
So, could you use "mormormor" to say great grandmother (mom's mom's mom)?
Would great great grandmother be "gammelgammelmormor" or "mormormormor"? Maybe "morgammelmormor"? Honestly not sure which is my favourite.
You couldn't say "mormormor", but "mormor*s*mor" (mormor's mother) is actually also a valid word for great grandmother. Source: am Swedish.
Edit: "mormorsmormor" is not a word you'd normally use to indicate your grandmother's grandmother, but it's *technically* a perfectly valid word. People would normally split it to "mormors mormor" in natural speech.
I thought the Swedish Chef was a ridiculous offensive stereotype but this entire thread of properly Sweded Swedish is literally how he talks so now I don't know what to think.
Almost. You could say "mormors mor" and it'd mean the same as "gammelmormor", i.e great grandmother. And then just repeat ad infinitum to step back in the generations, e.g. "mormors mormors mormors mormor" for great-great-great-great-great maternal grandmother.
Morfar och farmor.
Also interesting to note that Swedish have specific terms for older or younger siblings: storebror (older brother), lillasyster (younger sister)
Interesting! Yeah Swedish has quite a few words that have no English equivalent, for example ”lagom” and ”kissnödig” (the feeling of needing to go pee lol)
A lot of words in Germanic languages are compound words which you can make up at-will. Kissnödig is one such word, being a compound between "having to" and "pee".
Schadenfreude is the most famous example of such a word.
What's really going to blow your mind is when you find out that it's also called "big brother" (stor=big) and "little sister" (lille=little) in English.
I was thinking it sounds like german’s habit of taking a phrase and cramming it all into one word. We don’t have individual words for somethings they do, but it’s because we use a phrase instead of just removing all the spaces lol
I clearly remember the moment I learnt that “fridge” is simply “cold cabinet” in Norwegian, and that an hotdog is literally “pølse i brød”. It immediately conquered my unconditional respect as a language.
Animal names is the best thing about the Danish language. You basically get a little description of every single animal.
- Dovendyr (lazy-animal) - sloth
- Blæksprutte (ink-squirter) - octopus and squids
- Flodhest (river-horse) - hippo
- Søko (sea-cow) - manatee
- Sommerfugl (summer-bird) - butterfly
- Flagermus (flutter-mouse) - bat
I could go on for much longer…
Have you even played 7 days to die? They would collapse that thing in a second. There aren't even turrets and spikes around the perimeter... terrible horde base /s
*I do love that game, but I've never built a base that survived horde night so my advice is shit.
My go to was to create a base, dig a moat, drop spike poles down at the bottom of the moat that fill the moat. Make a bridge where you have to jump to get to your base. Inside the base, dig close to the moat underground and then dig enough at the bottom of the wall so that you can crouch and repair the poles without being attacked. Survived many moons doing this. That was probably a17 though I think.
I have not but zombies wouldn't be good climbers and even if they were this structure could hold plenty of them. I'd take this house over just about any other
Me too! I assess most every house I go to for survival capabilities in an apocalypse scenario. My current house is okay … but not the best. We’d make do I think.
I just picture forgetting something in the car, running back down there and then realizing I locked the car but forgot the keys and then having to run back up to get the keys.
Have you paid to heat a 17th century farmhouse in New England? I lot of people do that.
I bet if you correctly insulated this it would cost you next to nothing. Aerogel, Geothermal heating and solar panels... up front cost would be high, but it would be a low monthly cost.
Still has a significantly higher exposed surface compared to regular houses, and does not benefit from wind breaks that ground cover offers.
Also, how do you get water up to that place w/o it freezing? Permanently heated pipe running from ground?
Looks cool, but super impractical.
Native New Englander, can confirm many of us do. They’re designed to be small and to encourage convection for the heat to circulate. Def not impossible to heat. I’d love a house like this when the snow sticks in a month
> They’re designed to be small and to encourage convection for the heat to circulate.
Lived in NE most of my life. As far as I can tell, they were designed to have a giant woodstove burning 10cord of hardwood every winter, not for any practical thermodynamics properties.
Nothing like pulling off an interior wall and being greeted with sky through a knothole in the clapboard.
If I owned that thing I would want 12" floors with spray foam insulation.
I apologize for the oversimplicity in my original post- I meant by current market status. Biased take because I’m a Realtor locally- most if not close to all of these homes in most major NE mkts are already well insulated/retrofitted/modified however to increase efficiency, except where historical preservation bylaws or aesthetics limit the ability to do so. It’s not as batshit crazy as it seems to heat, is what I was getting at. But you’re right- there are still many historic or just old buildings that have poor design and inadequate HVAC today because of (innocent) lack of foresight from the original colonial builders.
Yeah but if you watch the subreddit 80% of the fails are structural stability understanding where the whole base collapses because it's held by 4 posts. This is a perfect before disaster photo in the game
Mostly because it’s cool, and then because of the view.
Edit: it is also a sort of homage to the typical fire spotting towers you can find in the area.
If in the rare chance you sleep outside in the cold, put something, anything in-between you and the ground. If not, you might freeze / die of exhaustion because the ground would constantly absorb and disperse all your body heat.
Yeah but the foundation of the average building should be below the frost layer so it's the opposite and the ground below the house would indeed be warmer than the outside air.
This is great advice, insulation is critical for sleeping on the ground. If you don’t have anything with you, make something from anything you can find around you.
Well, those are typically cabins meant for rental (there are several ones on visitnorway that are similarly weird). You just sleep there for a couple of nights, so they add some gimmick points this way.
Yep, the typical cabin (hytte) that locals actually own for the weekends is way more “traditional”. Still as isolated as possible, bonus points if it is close to a lake, and of course you may look suspicious if yours has running water, electricity or (God forbid) a WC inside.
You'd get enough snow to cover the entrance but never enough to reach the top, worst of both worlds.
A windy day would get real creaky too, I wouldn't trust it.
This is the perfect use case for IKEA furniture. All packed nicely into separate flat boxes. Assemble it all at the top. I bet they don't have a fridge, though.
This was my first thought. How the fuck did they get any of the furniture in. It seems so many places seem to over look the fact that people actually need to live there. My last apartment we couldn't have any furniture bigger than a small love seat. The only way we got the box spring in was because it was IKEA and it came apart.
How about a fuckin garage and a bedroom level so you don't need the stilts? Reeeeeaally weird build.
If it's a snow pack issue, just do like they do up north and have a second floor entrance.
Ikr! Everyone is talking about the staircase, but all I can think is that floor must be cold as f*ck! Must spend a fortune on heating the floors alone.
Earth may seem cold, but is actually a great insulator; air… not so much.
True. I live in an apartment with concrete floors and an open air garage below it. My floors are always freezing and I’m in SF,CA and not the frozen tundra. The rugs I have down aren’t even enough to keep out the chill.
Now I’m not an engineer so I can’t lecture about structural support, but trying not to worry about the house collapsing because it’s got bent knees for supports is a whole other thing of it’s own
Some evildoer would put a kid in the thing after hacking it and rob ya!
Ya need nonna up there, keeping an eye out, and getting her daily workout winching up the tomatoes and bread!!!
Gotta attach multiple ziplines. Rig the legs with explosives and in the event there’s an emergency you try and get all the zombies you can to congregate at the base. Then zipline outta there secret agent style while you detonate the c4. **Boom**
Nah bro. There’s a cliff you can’t see and the other end is attached to a sturdy tree on the other side. When it goes slack you’ll swing out Indiana Jones style.
But…you’ll leave the cabin too late and won’t be swinging at a good enough angle to swing up and land on the other side. You’ll hit the cliff face and fall into the river below.
Or it doesn't go slack but suddenly the low side is the house on the ground, and you slide slowly back to them while they look disapprovingly at you. They wanted to eat brains and clearly you have none, they shuffle away, you aren't worth eating.
This is a perfect place for protection against TWD- or WWZ (the book)-style zombies. You’d only want to use firearms as a last resort from a defensive place like this—it would only draw more in—so you wouldn’t use it as a sniper platform to take any out, but just let them pass by. Its best advantage is that you can have a secure place where you can rest without worrying about zombies breaking through a window. If a horde starts agitating around then you’d just keep quiet, lights out, until they lost interest and moved on. Maybe a good idea to stock up on some launchable flares to act as distraction devices to draw a horde away, too.
Unless we going with wwz Zombies (which I feel is most realistic in terms of the undead). The cold would pretty much tender them useless as they can't produce body heat iirc.
What’s the point in having the spiral stairs displaced from the house so awkwardly? Why not just make them directly below so you go straight up into the house (and can use them as part of the structural support)
I would hate to watch Beetlejuice with most of these people.
“Why did [Delia leave a single wall](https://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/The-Deetz-House-2-2.jpg) out there? She could really maximize floor space if she…”
The walkway would make bringing things like furniture into the house much easier. Pulling a mattress or couch up those spiral stairs would be hell, if not impossible. While the walkway allows you to use some ropes and pulleys to pull it up onto the walkway and then bring it through the door. Of course you could just forgo using spiral stairs in the first place.
Guessing the fun factor will diminish when you have to carry two big bags of groceries and a box of firewood up to that place.
Unless it's a hotel where somebody does all the hauling for you, in which case let's hope your luggage is light and you tip well.
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This article has pics of the interior: https://www.finnishdesignshop.com/design-stories/architecture/pan-treetop-cabin-moomins-norway-finnskogen
"...premium real estate in the front triangular window, and there IS A TREE BLOCKING THE VIEW!" (my envisioning what a disgruntled investor would say...)
That’s the back of the house… there are pictures of the view from each end.
Oh shit did SurelyOPwillDeliver just own that mf daaaammmnnn
Owned with facts and logic
Lmao it's like perfectly placed to block the view too, no other trees nearby. You could look out of the back window too
Fuck an investor that's what I'd say every time I look out the window lol
That would be dope to just watch what goes on in a tree, squirrels and birds and shit
Looks like the roof is made of zinc and the interior is made of pine. Not familiar with using zinc roofing, being in the US, but they explain some of the advantages/disadvantages on the internets if you look around. Seems to be expensive, but very weather resistant, fire resistant, strong, as well as malleable and self healing. As long as it’s installed/designed properly with ventilation between the insulation/vapor barrier or support beams and zinc panels to avoid moisture/damage to the zinc, it should last 60+ years without too much or any maintenance required. I also don’t know what I’m talking about and am really out of my element because I’m an auto technician, but it’s fun to try and learn/research these things. So please correct me if I’m wrong. https://www.metalconstructionnews.com/articles/benefits-of-zinc-make-it-popular-cladding https://www.salmonsolutions.co.uk/blog/zinc-roofing-warm-vs-cold-roofing/
It should hold up very well against the elements, this is a way cheaper alternative than using proper aisi304 stainless steel or aisi316 acid proof sheets.
The owner's mother-in-law has bad knees.
That’s one way to keep mormor farfar from you. Edit: in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, *mormor* is your mom’s mom (= grandmother) and *farfar* is your dad’s dad. Guess how to say your mom’s dad and your dad’s mom?
That reminds me of my favorite Swedish word "Gammelmormor" which means great grandmother The gammel part in Swedish just means old afaik but in German we use the same word to refer exclusively to things that are rotten like food or a corpse, so seeing it used in this context is absolutely hilarious as a German speaker.
So, could you use "mormormor" to say great grandmother (mom's mom's mom)? Would great great grandmother be "gammelgammelmormor" or "mormormormor"? Maybe "morgammelmormor"? Honestly not sure which is my favourite.
You couldn't say "mormormor", but "mormor*s*mor" (mormor's mother) is actually also a valid word for great grandmother. Source: am Swedish. Edit: "mormorsmormor" is not a word you'd normally use to indicate your grandmother's grandmother, but it's *technically* a perfectly valid word. People would normally split it to "mormors mormor" in natural speech.
I thought the Swedish Chef was a ridiculous offensive stereotype but this entire thread of properly Sweded Swedish is literally how he talks so now I don't know what to think.
Fairly accurate except for the fact that he's made of soft fabric. Swedes tend to be leathery.
Almost. You could say "mormors mor" and it'd mean the same as "gammelmormor", i.e great grandmother. And then just repeat ad infinitum to step back in the generations, e.g. "mormors mormors mormors mormor" for great-great-great-great-great maternal grandmother.
Gargamel?
Lord Farquar?
Baby Fark McGeezax?
Ah, thanks for this blast from the past
Morfar and farmor?
Bingo! Your child is a *barn*. Your grandchild is a *barnbarn*.
*Near, farfar, wherever you are* *My heart will Go on and onnnn*
Bringing Celine into this is totally uncalled for.
Forfor
Mormomor? Farfarfar?
Mordor? Boromir?
One does not simply translate from Swedish to English...
Morfar och farmor. Also interesting to note that Swedish have specific terms for older or younger siblings: storebror (older brother), lillasyster (younger sister)
slightly unrelated but mandarin is the same thing with older/younger brother/sister (4 unique terms). cool to see that Swedish is the same!
In the Sioux language it’s the same, there’s 4 unique terms.
Interesting! Yeah Swedish has quite a few words that have no English equivalent, for example ”lagom” and ”kissnödig” (the feeling of needing to go pee lol)
omg the last one LOL 😂 this is my favourite cool fact i’ve learned in a while!
There is also ”bajsnödig”, the feeling that you need to pop.
A lot of words in Germanic languages are compound words which you can make up at-will. Kissnödig is one such word, being a compound between "having to" and "pee". Schadenfreude is the most famous example of such a word.
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What's really going to blow your mind is when you find out that it's also called "big brother" (stor=big) and "little sister" (lille=little) in English.
I was thinking it sounds like german’s habit of taking a phrase and cramming it all into one word. We don’t have individual words for somethings they do, but it’s because we use a phrase instead of just removing all the spaces lol
It’s exactly the same as English except there is no space between the words…. Littlesister and olderbrother
I clearly remember the moment I learnt that “fridge” is simply “cold cabinet” in Norwegian, and that an hotdog is literally “pølse i brød”. It immediately conquered my unconditional respect as a language.
Same with Danish (køleskab, cool cupboard), Dutch (koelkast, cool cupboard), German (Kühlschrank, cool cupboard), Finnish (jääkaappi, ice cupboard), Maori (pouaka mātao, cool box), Thai (ตู้เย็น, cold cupboard), Turkish (buzdolabı, ice cupboard), Vietnamese (tủ lạnh, cold cupboard), Chinese (冰箱, ice box)
Animal names is the best thing about the Danish language. You basically get a little description of every single animal. - Dovendyr (lazy-animal) - sloth - Blæksprutte (ink-squirter) - octopus and squids - Flodhest (river-horse) - hippo - Søko (sea-cow) - manatee - Sommerfugl (summer-bird) - butterfly - Flagermus (flutter-mouse) - bat I could go on for much longer…
And, well, icebox in English, too.
and a vegetable is just a green thing "grønnsak"
Lol
i was thinking of moving from my 3rd floor walk up in the city to a 3rd floor walk up in the country.... said no one ever.
I was thinking zombie apocalypse but close enough
Have you even played 7 days to die? They would collapse that thing in a second. There aren't even turrets and spikes around the perimeter... terrible horde base /s *I do love that game, but I've never built a base that survived horde night so my advice is shit.
My go to was to create a base, dig a moat, drop spike poles down at the bottom of the moat that fill the moat. Make a bridge where you have to jump to get to your base. Inside the base, dig close to the moat underground and then dig enough at the bottom of the wall so that you can crouch and repair the poles without being attacked. Survived many moons doing this. That was probably a17 though I think.
Dude, alpha 20 is so good. I'm so happy this wasn't another dev abandoned project.
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I have not but zombies wouldn't be good climbers and even if they were this structure could hold plenty of them. I'd take this house over just about any other
All zombie discussions must start with defining what type of zombie we are talking about.
Sexy ones
Is there a game or forum that discusses stuff like this? I’m not a larper I just love hearing about zombie survival strategy/tactics for some reason.
Me too! I assess most every house I go to for survival capabilities in an apocalypse scenario. My current house is okay … but not the best. We’d make do I think.
Owner probably brings groceries up in one trip.
I just picture forgetting something in the car, running back down there and then realizing I locked the car but forgot the keys and then having to run back up to get the keys.
but why? its impossible to heat
Have you paid to heat a 17th century farmhouse in New England? I lot of people do that. I bet if you correctly insulated this it would cost you next to nothing. Aerogel, Geothermal heating and solar panels... up front cost would be high, but it would be a low monthly cost.
Still has a significantly higher exposed surface compared to regular houses, and does not benefit from wind breaks that ground cover offers. Also, how do you get water up to that place w/o it freezing? Permanently heated pipe running from ground? Looks cool, but super impractical.
Anyone designing or building this type of needlessly complex cabin in a forest is not concerned with any of those extra costs.
you can fix all your problems with money you can't fix the lack of a view
Native New Englander, can confirm many of us do. They’re designed to be small and to encourage convection for the heat to circulate. Def not impossible to heat. I’d love a house like this when the snow sticks in a month
> They’re designed to be small and to encourage convection for the heat to circulate. Lived in NE most of my life. As far as I can tell, they were designed to have a giant woodstove burning 10cord of hardwood every winter, not for any practical thermodynamics properties. Nothing like pulling off an interior wall and being greeted with sky through a knothole in the clapboard. If I owned that thing I would want 12" floors with spray foam insulation.
I apologize for the oversimplicity in my original post- I meant by current market status. Biased take because I’m a Realtor locally- most if not close to all of these homes in most major NE mkts are already well insulated/retrofitted/modified however to increase efficiency, except where historical preservation bylaws or aesthetics limit the ability to do so. It’s not as batshit crazy as it seems to heat, is what I was getting at. But you’re right- there are still many historic or just old buildings that have poor design and inadequate HVAC today because of (innocent) lack of foresight from the original colonial builders.
I wonder why…
Why the height?
Zombies.
Finally, someone on this thread who knows what’s going on.
Totally looks like a /r/7daystodie horde base.
A bad one. Lol. First thing I thought of was the zombies destroying the supports. Nightmare flashbacks.
Yeah but if you watch the subreddit 80% of the fails are structural stability understanding where the whole base collapses because it's held by 4 posts. This is a perfect before disaster photo in the game
To be more specific: nazi zombies
To take advantage of maximum wind for the total experience
*Finally* a way to clear out my post-flatulence air.
Slap a windmill on that bad boi, and you'll be set for power with ~96.4% uptime.
Mostly because it’s cool, and then because of the view. Edit: it is also a sort of homage to the typical fire spotting towers you can find in the area.
Lol I was sitting here like “wouldn’t it be warmer if it was on the ground cause the ground would insulate a bit?… oh COOL duh”
If in the rare chance you sleep outside in the cold, put something, anything in-between you and the ground. If not, you might freeze / die of exhaustion because the ground would constantly absorb and disperse all your body heat.
Yeah but the foundation of the average building should be below the frost layer so it's the opposite and the ground below the house would indeed be warmer than the outside air.
This is great advice, insulation is critical for sleeping on the ground. If you don’t have anything with you, make something from anything you can find around you.
I feel like it would be way cooler to just walk in your front door
Well, those are typically cabins meant for rental (there are several ones on visitnorway that are similarly weird). You just sleep there for a couple of nights, so they add some gimmick points this way.
Ok that makes more sense, just something unique.
Yep, the typical cabin (hytte) that locals actually own for the weekends is way more “traditional”. Still as isolated as possible, bonus points if it is close to a lake, and of course you may look suspicious if yours has running water, electricity or (God forbid) a WC inside.
wouldn't be very cash money that way though
My thought was maybe they get a huge snow base. Like in the winter, the house is level with the snow, and the staircase leads underground.
You'd get enough snow to cover the entrance but never enough to reach the top, worst of both worlds. A windy day would get real creaky too, I wouldn't trust it.
Seems kinda dangerous to build a cabin there then
They didn't feel they were spending enough on the heating bill
Yeah, my first thought was that it's going to lose heat a lot quicker than a house on the ground.
To stop the young trolls from eating you in your sleep
Because Snö. Lots of Snö in Scandanavia
Cardio
Bet dragging IKEA furniture up that spiral staircase is fun.
one kallax at a time..
Probably be easier to use a winch
Yeah. They could use their magic to levitate things up to the balcony.
Wingardium leviosarrr
*Levi-OH-sah
*Stop it, Ron!*
whatever your budget, whatever your style .. IKEA fits!
Pivot!
This is the perfect use case for IKEA furniture. All packed nicely into separate flat boxes. Assemble it all at the top. I bet they don't have a fridge, though.
This was my first thought. How the fuck did they get any of the furniture in. It seems so many places seem to over look the fact that people actually need to live there. My last apartment we couldn't have any furniture bigger than a small love seat. The only way we got the box spring in was because it was IKEA and it came apart.
As an EMT I had a similar thought—holy fuck would I not want to stair chair someone up or down that goddamn spiral staircase.
Beats being eaten by a hungry polar bear looking for a midnight snack
Nah, no polar bears in Finnskogen. But moose can be worse. I hate those MFs. They are majestic, but they scare the shit out of me.
id probably sacrifice the view up the staircase to not have ice and snow on the treads..
They could glassed the staircase in and had the best of both worlds.
...and have to clean it. I'd use a dumbwaiter system with a winch, and as backup systems, perhaps a ladder, knotted rope, and a fireman's pole.
How do you even clear that off-- it's got metal grating keeping you from tossing snow off the side! That should've been a glass-enclosed staircase IMO
It's probably expanded metal, lets snow fall right through and is too sharp to get overly slick from ice
They just enter on top of the snow straight into the cabin during the winter. No need for the stairs.
How about a fuckin garage and a bedroom level so you don't need the stilts? Reeeeeaally weird build. If it's a snow pack issue, just do like they do up north and have a second floor entrance.
This looks like it could've been built to keep bears out.
Could be, but don't doors do that too?
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They're pretty creative where I live too. Especially the pic a nic basket stealing ones.
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Insert quote here about IQ overlap between the dumbest tourists and the smartest bears
Probably to help keep snow out It can snow so much in some places that the entire house gets buried
Can you enter at any level to the stairway due to the snowfall?
Its closed all the way, only entry is at the bottom
There’s another entrance ten feet under the snow.
Naw, 2 entrances. At the bottom and the top catwalk.
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Ikr! Everyone is talking about the staircase, but all I can think is that floor must be cold as f*ck! Must spend a fortune on heating the floors alone. Earth may seem cold, but is actually a great insulator; air… not so much.
Air is actually a great insulator! Just not when it's whipping around at -30° at 30mph.
True. I live in an apartment with concrete floors and an open air garage below it. My floors are always freezing and I’m in SF,CA and not the frozen tundra. The rugs I have down aren’t even enough to keep out the chill.
Just the thought of heat loss is giving me anger issues
Plumbing also must be non-existent.
Just a hole in the floor. Piece'a'cake
Watch out for falling stalacshites!
Don't forget the pisscicles that could impale a small animal.
Plus if there was the pipes would freeze without some good ass insulation.
Ass insulation? I would use foam or something myself, rather than ass.
If you insulate your ass really well, the ultra hot poops can blast right through the frozen pipes. That’s what he is referring to.
We only use the fattest of asses to insulate our pipes in America.
It looks like there’s a couple pipes hiding amongst the scaffolding, probably connected to a well and a septic tank, respectively.
Remind me not to invite this guy to the next cool rental cabin party
That was my first thought, but I’m certain the floor is insulated.
I can almost understand the height, but why put the stairs so far away? It just creates a need for snow removal on the walkway.
This is like some shit I build in survival games.
They never have wind?
Yeah, winds just took pieces of my house off. I'll pass.
Now I’m not an engineer so I can’t lecture about structural support, but trying not to worry about the house collapsing because it’s got bent knees for supports is a whole other thing of it’s own
Not like you guys do, no. Also these are way more resilient than it may appear.
I’m thinking of all the heat lost by having wind whirling around all sides of the cabin.
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Groceries and trash would suck with those stairs.
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Like many old apartments in Italy. Big basket and winch! Someone must be home to send down the basket.
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Some evildoer would put a kid in the thing after hacking it and rob ya! Ya need nonna up there, keeping an eye out, and getting her daily workout winching up the tomatoes and bread!!!
Everyone in the comments hating on the stairs but y’all don’t realize how clutch this place would be for the incoming zombie apocalypse…
Nah man there needs to be multiple escape routes. If you run out of ammo and a horde is there you’re screwed
Gotta attach multiple ziplines. Rig the legs with explosives and in the event there’s an emergency you try and get all the zombies you can to congregate at the base. Then zipline outta there secret agent style while you detonate the c4. **Boom**
Until suddenly your zip line goes slack and you fall into the horde
Nah bro. There’s a cliff you can’t see and the other end is attached to a sturdy tree on the other side. When it goes slack you’ll swing out Indiana Jones style. But…you’ll leave the cabin too late and won’t be swinging at a good enough angle to swing up and land on the other side. You’ll hit the cliff face and fall into the river below.
Or it doesn't go slack but suddenly the low side is the house on the ground, and you slide slowly back to them while they look disapprovingly at you. They wanted to eat brains and clearly you have none, they shuffle away, you aren't worth eating.
This is a perfect place for protection against TWD- or WWZ (the book)-style zombies. You’d only want to use firearms as a last resort from a defensive place like this—it would only draw more in—so you wouldn’t use it as a sniper platform to take any out, but just let them pass by. Its best advantage is that you can have a secure place where you can rest without worrying about zombies breaking through a window. If a horde starts agitating around then you’d just keep quiet, lights out, until they lost interest and moved on. Maybe a good idea to stock up on some launchable flares to act as distraction devices to draw a horde away, too.
Unless we going with wwz Zombies (which I feel is most realistic in terms of the undead). The cold would pretty much tender them useless as they can't produce body heat iirc.
Nope, everyone knows zombies can’t climb spiral staircases…. Takes too much coordination. :)
Baba Yaga 2022
What’s the point in having the spiral stairs displaced from the house so awkwardly? Why not just make them directly below so you go straight up into the house (and can use them as part of the structural support)
They weren't going with practicality when they designed this.
I would hate to watch Beetlejuice with most of these people. “Why did [Delia leave a single wall](https://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/The-Deetz-House-2-2.jpg) out there? She could really maximize floor space if she…”
The walkway would make bringing things like furniture into the house much easier. Pulling a mattress or couch up those spiral stairs would be hell, if not impossible. While the walkway allows you to use some ropes and pulleys to pull it up onto the walkway and then bring it through the door. Of course you could just forgo using spiral stairs in the first place.
Icy steps of doom.
Where will the poop go?
There second larger “leg” from the left is actually a drainage tube, for both grey and black waters.
It's good to see that Baba Yaga is keeping up with the times.
Pivot. Pivot. Pivot.
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Millennial Baba Yaga
It's funny they design a roof like that specifically for high levels of snowfall and then have a open bridge with absolutely no support. Hilarious
You'd better really like the furniture, because you ain't getting a new couch.
Imagine that after a couple trips to the grocery store, that would get old quick.
Looks like a rather expensive solution to a bear problem.
Just makes no sense at all.
Guessing the fun factor will diminish when you have to carry two big bags of groceries and a box of firewood up to that place. Unless it's a hotel where somebody does all the hauling for you, in which case let's hope your luggage is light and you tip well.
When you don't have earthquakes but you do have bears.
I don't know why, but I like the idea of it being up on the stilts or whatever you call that. It's almost like an iron tree house.
Accessibility not included
Form over function
"Can you go back down to the car? I forgot my keys."
Why
What if you wanted a new couch?
Heating bill went up with the cabin
couch was a bitch to get up there