Jeffrey S. Broadhurst's 140sf cabin in the hills of West Virginia sits alone on his family's 27 acre mountaintop property. Built by himself, his friends and his neighbors, the cabin-- slated for an autumn '08 Tommy Hill spread j/k j/k-- was made from strictly off-the-shelf materials and features oil lights, gravity-fed plumbing, a woodstove, and an outdoor shower... straight out the MacGyver playbook:
"A hand-powered bilge pump, designed for removing water from the bottom of a boat’s hull, draws water from below the platform to a smaller tank suspended from the ceiling, so it can fall into the shack’s descending plumbing. The pump can also be hooked up to a water-storage compartment on the woodstove, sending hot water to the faucet" (via Architectural Record)
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Monday, June 16, 2008
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