I know, aren't they mad!
They were all built by different people over a period of years - they're all about 15 years old - the first one on stilts (telegraph poles) is a self contained studio which overlooks the mill pond on one side and river to its rear, the second we call the 'caravan crash' - its one half caravan and the other side is an amazing little timber living room with balcony over the river and chintz setee, the third which shows a turret in the foreground (actually that's the composting loo) is a big house made of straw bales and it has a big red Aga in it - an old man used to live there with a beautiful young lady - they lived there naked (I don't jest) and bathed in the river every day of the year - the last one with the turfy looking roof is just a big shed and the roof has gone that way over years. They're all complete with wood burning stoves and mini-kitchens so we do hope to rent some of them out but they all need rennovated to a degree and are subject to h&s issues so we have to be careful. We live in the miller's house (which we need to gut) and we will be renting out the mill (complete with electricity run off the water wheel) and the pigsty (cottage) from next year as they're almost complete - but that's after we dig out the mill pond, build a bridge over the river, build a new workshop to replace the dilapidated one.....don't remind me how long the list is and we're almost half way through the year. Big discounts for all TAS users though from early next year (when I get around to the website...) Good examples though of non architects (we are architects ourselves - and that's not helping at the moment
) doing their own thing with local stuff and things they could get there hands on. Anything's possible!