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This is pretty neat this guy built his dome home from recycled boat parts. I'll paste the article here but follow the link to see the pictures.
www.hgtv.com/hgtv/remode...6754,00.html
The builder of this home, Franz Reynders, was a theatre and mime professor at Lewis and Clark College, as well as a sculptor and painter. During the six years of construction, Franz was committed to making his round house because, he said, bodies move in round motion. His friend and actor Burl Ross helped to build it. Reynders bought some battleship gun turret covers at a ship salvage yard for about $25 each. The steel domes make up most of the house's domes. They are connected with wood construction and covered with urethane foam and a coating of latex or rubber to protect them from the elements. The overall design positions the domes so they blend into the landscape, forming the crest of the hill they are built into. Reynders and his wife Joan landscaped, and he built the fun farm for his girls when they were small, introducing Chou the pot-bellied pig into the family.
Inside, the house is surprisingly well lit by skylights. The largest dome, built from a fabricated steel structure rather than a gun turret cover, is 17 feet high. Built-ins provide open interior spaces, and the half-dome is highly efficient. Although most of the home's walls are curved, the connecting passageways between the domes are flat and display Reynder's paintings. The master bedroom consists of two separate domes, one large and airy, lit by a giant skylight and small portholes (former holes for 55 mm cannons on the Battleship Bunker Hill), and one smaller dome is a sauna, designed to look like a Grecian urn. The children's bedrooms are also dome-shaped.
www.hgtv.com/hgtv/remode...6754,00.html
The builder of this home, Franz Reynders, was a theatre and mime professor at Lewis and Clark College, as well as a sculptor and painter. During the six years of construction, Franz was committed to making his round house because, he said, bodies move in round motion. His friend and actor Burl Ross helped to build it. Reynders bought some battleship gun turret covers at a ship salvage yard for about $25 each. The steel domes make up most of the house's domes. They are connected with wood construction and covered with urethane foam and a coating of latex or rubber to protect them from the elements. The overall design positions the domes so they blend into the landscape, forming the crest of the hill they are built into. Reynders and his wife Joan landscaped, and he built the fun farm for his girls when they were small, introducing Chou the pot-bellied pig into the family.
Inside, the house is surprisingly well lit by skylights. The largest dome, built from a fabricated steel structure rather than a gun turret cover, is 17 feet high. Built-ins provide open interior spaces, and the half-dome is highly efficient. Although most of the home's walls are curved, the connecting passageways between the domes are flat and display Reynder's paintings. The master bedroom consists of two separate domes, one large and airy, lit by a giant skylight and small portholes (former holes for 55 mm cannons on the Battleship Bunker Hill), and one smaller dome is a sauna, designed to look like a Grecian urn. The children's bedrooms are also dome-shaped.
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