[Cob] Not So Big House

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"David Knowlton" wrote:

>boxy and having wood sounds organic 
>and restful next to the *(*&(&-ing
>houses they throw up in tracts around 
>tampa.

You should come visit the Issaquah Plateau (in Issaquah, Washington--a suburb 
of Seattle) so you can have something new to hate.  ;)

My brother-in-law lives in a two-story, 3000 sq. ft. house that's made of the 
shoddiest crap you can imagine.  It's covered in that Weyerhaeuser siding 
that's made (as far as I can tell) from compressed toilet paper or something.  
Basically, it absorbs the rain (but how often does it rain here in the PNW, 
really?), bulges and peels.  I guess it wouldn't be such a big deal...except 
that the place has a resale value of about a quarter million.  

<sigh>

Brina