Vesper Casa, a house of salvaged dreams, Homes killed but their best parts and pieces live again.
The Pure Salvage Living Renaissance is about recreating a future that others have ignored, one that respects the best of our past for sake of generations yet to be born.
This was one of my most detailed houses that had so many of the best features, from the elaborate window dressings, the balcony, the fold-down porch roofs for transport, and never done before railing on the loft. Elk antlers, Deer antlers, and parts from India, all joined together to create this House of Prayers, for the future of our people, and the preservation of the best from our past. The skills it took to create the windows used, the colors in the glass, and the many details were all done before electricity was common in the home.
This monster of a Tiny Texas House was shipped to its ranch in Cochulla, and got a ticket for being overweight at the darn weigh station 10 miles from the destination. It was a heavy house, 20,000 lbs or so I would guess. This classic two-story is still only counted as a portable building, under 400 SF it is not officially a house in Texas. This is a good thing for taxes are much lower that way, as well as the depreciation in ten years rather than 29 years. It would allow you to give it to an heir and even move it away one day… not an easy task, but possible unlike slab houses.
The porch roofs are high, low, and on the front are hinged so as to fold down and protect the windows on the side for transport. The floor is built in three sections so they can be carried by four guys. One of my favorite creations was named Vesper Casa, which means a house of prayer. Deer Antlers, antique appliances, a rare stairwell that is made from a 12" x 12" beam over a thousand years since it was a seed. The treads are made of various woods, Mesquite, Live Oak, Cypress, and Long Leaf Pine woods fill the house, with no shitrock anywhere.
This was a 12' wide by 26" classic with a giant loft you can walk in without bending over at 6'2" tall. Imagine how few of these are traveling the country on a trailer... none. NOT a house on wheels except to get it to its final resting place, in this case, Cochulla, Texas on a ranch where few will ever see it again.
This was the most expensive house we built for it was fully ornamented with porches, AC, all the amenities you could ask for to live a healthy simple life.
How many of you would live in a house this fine? The trick is, where would you put it, and wouldn't it be nice with a few others nearby to create a tiny village or family compound? Let your mind wander, your imagination bloom great flowers of reality you can be proud of for life.
House Art that you can live with for life, builders needed all around the country as the demand is high for quality tiny houses that few seem to want to build instead of the tacky unhealthy tiny boxes on Wheels that are sickening at best for their short lifespans, outgassing chemicals, lack of fresh air unless built with air exchangers. Please research the details and know what you are doing before you buy an RV to live in full time. They are not really the same as a house, will be taxed differently, and limited where you can put them, getting more restrictive all the time as anarchists take to living in houses on wheels.
Who sees the future of simpler healthier living being the focus, the family, the food, the way we live changing as our priorities change, forced or by choice? The world will be moving many millions of people this year and next as the debt load is too much when the cost of food and fuel are cannibalizing most budgets and savings.
Are you prepared for the next decade which is going to be "transitional" like the inflation which is not going to end soon and will change the way people pick housing due to the costs, taxes, and transition of our economy, especially if we continue to fund wars with billions of dollars instead of investing in the safety of our schools, taking care of our homeless, and providing training to put millions into a new employment environment.
More entrepreneurs, fewer big box stores, and perhaps we can rebuild the small businesses which employ more people than all the big corps combined, but that will change it the entrepreneurs keep getting squashed while the big corps and big box stores got special treatment. Now the allocation of capital will squeeze the last of the small businesses unless the government focuses on helping retrain Americans for a new era of radical changes ahead.
Blessings to your day and plans, prepare, never scared but aware of the path to be thriving when the SHTF. Savor your days, not the daze the dems are in.
May God bless your door for the opportunity to create organic houses, and be free. Why not let it be? Do people really want factory-built outgassing unhealthy houses rather than organic sustainable energy-efficient tiny homes created to last for a century more, not a decade like RV-type structures?
Please do your research to know if the home you create or buy will be healthy for your life. Many will be forced to downsize soon and in fighting the push, end up homeless if they do not come up with a plan for inflation fast. Living in cars and vans is not the answer in the long run nor is living in storage sheds or cardboard houses.
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