[Timbo]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Caravans-motorhomes/Motorhomes/photos/a-102237684/p-41982119.htm

[willsken]

Oh it's better, it's a house on wheels! I dream of retirement! :yes

[james the mechanic]

No it’s probably better built than the average NZ house, that’s why it costs more than the average NZ house!:laugh

[Caroline and Dave]

Well, at 395 k , you could live in luxury and move all around New Zealand.Work could be a problem though. Fancy it Nicola?:)


Dave and Caroline

[dharder]

I'm sure it's got more floor space than what we have at the moment...

And certainly a nicer kitchen :)

Daniela

[Tia Maria]

Fantastic! Makes me want to take up country and western singing.

Cheers

Tia

[bartons]

Our budget would only stretch to these:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Caravans-motorhomes/Motorhomes/photos/a-108149728/p-43545281.htm
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Caravans-motorhomes/Motorhomes/photos/a-108415178/p-44548721.htm
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Caravans-motorhomes/Motorhomes/auction-109495687.htm

We lived in a similar one for two years while driving through Eastern Europe to Turkey and France, and we tend to get nostalgic looking at these pictures.

[Tia Maria]

:laugh :laugh :laugh

I love the 'Character Modern House Truck', I wonder if those 2 chairs are bolted to the ground or whether you just have to hold on tight when it goes round corners.

Cheers

Tia

[dharder]

Our budget would only stretch to these:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Caravans-motorhomes/Motorhomes/photos/a-108415178/p-44548721.htm


I love this one. Surely, for the purpose of selling it, they could have taped the live wires hanging from the ceiling to something so they wouldn't run throught the middle of the photo?

:)

Daniela, just avoiding work

[james the mechanic]

And they’re all fully insulated & very cosy, just like your average NZ home then?
The Isuzu house truck has two heat setting, cold & freezing? and a self igniting gas heater, better insure for fire then!
The Isuzu house truck is not just unique it’s ‘VERY UNIQUE’.
What are you talking about dharder, they only taped them up for the photos surely.:laugh

[John Z]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Caravans-motorhomes/Motorhomes/photos/a-102237684/p-41982119.htm

I'm sure my son would love it: 3 seats in the front, without having to buy a house AND a McLaren... :laugh

John Z

[Sam B]

I actually like the rickety mad one MORE than the original one!!

[John Z]

I actually like the rickety mad one MORE than the original one!!

Which one is the original then?...

[Sam B]

You know, the first one in the thread, the posh one.

[John Z]

Are you serious? :roll

[Sam B]

YES! The rickety mad one has pots of character, I like it.

[John Z]

(I had to look up "rickety" first...)

And I think they're all rickety, but the one "in the middle" has the most character of the three. It has something "organic" to it. Let's see if we're talking the same one...

Would you like to have your house designed like that?

[Sam B]

I mean the one that looks like a house has been reconstructed on a trailer and has photos of it sitting in a field, and the inside is all old wood. It's not exactly what I'd want in my designed house (!), but I would like lots of recycled wood and doors etc, but also big big windows, compost toilet that doesn't smell and some character, if that's possible in a new house.

[Sam B]

Yep, the one in the middle - that's the one I meant.

[crispyking]

looks really cool, but I thought it was a typo ...
395k ??? You're having a laugh surely ? :laugh

[willsken]

Well, at 395 k , you could live in luxury and move all around New Zealand.Work could be a problem though. Fancy it Nicola?:)


Dave and Caroline

Absolutely.... not in this life time though!! (Don't even do the lottery any more:roll )

:D

[willsken]

looks really cool, but I thought it was a typo ...
395k ??? You're having a laugh surely ? :laugh

We went to a camper van sale a few weeks ago, nearly died at the price of some of them. Over $100,00 for one that you could buy in the UK for about £15,000. :exit

[John Z]

...........It's not exactly what I'd want in my designed house (!), but I would like lots of recycled wood and doors etc, but also big big windows, compost toilet that doesn't smell and some character, if that's possible in a new house.

I've always done what people say can't be done. First took a lot of time thinking/studying the subject and it's context and somewhere between analisys and creation there's a moment of "conception" from where the thing grows. (Sounds really organic, doesn't it? I'm listening to the JAYHAWKS , Hollywood town hall", hence the prozaic describtion..., I guess :laugh )

But serious: I really think you can design a new house with a lot of character, it's in the proces, in the respect. I don't design compost toilets, others have done that with good results, but what I can do is incorporate/integrate as if it's always was meant to "grow" there (no, not like fungi:cool: ). Where I live now is in a "town" that is totally fake, it's designed as if it's been there for hundreds of years, but really, ten years ago there was nothing but grass and cows here... Prince Charles also did a project (small scale) like it, Poundbury, where many people love it, but I really hate it. The way it is respectless to the environment (the use of materials, time, resources), but most of all how it influences the behaviour of it's inhabitants. I do not know about Poundbury from first hand, but I do know from my own city. Building new like if it's old (style) is expensive and therefore it's an upper-class town with "upper-class" behaviour. "We live here, so it's proof we're better", which results in anti-social behaviour. People do not care about being active in social life, it's just the status of their house in this particular place that is enough.

So, I hate "fake", but that doesn't stop me trying to get character in a new house.

(Hm, did I get carried away?....:exit )