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The Advantages of a Hillside House

 
 

Good ideas from the past on how to plan and design an attractive, easy-to-build and easy-to-maintain home in the country.

 
 

There are quite a few good reasons to build a home into the side of a hill. The natural flow of rain water downhill and breezes uphill will keep it cooler and dryer. Simply adding large windows to the half exposed foundation walls will make bright and airy living space where a basement would have been. Rooms on the lower level, protected by the earth of the hill, will be warmer in winter and cooler in summer.

 

 

 
 

 

 
 
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