Facing retirement years in a world full of turmoil, social issues and environmental concerns, we spent many hours researching how to build our ideal retirement home. Living on Guam, we must deal with high heat, high humidity, termites, earthquakes and typhoons. After much research, dreams, conversations and revisions, we decided on building a container home.
Most homes on Guam are constructed of concrete to withstand the typhoon winds. These homes, although strong, tend to have cracks and structural problems after a quake. Years ago, Guam was hit with an 8.1 quake. We've also had supertyphoons with direct eye passage. Guam has always been resilient, and rebounded after these calamities.
On this blog, we will describe the process of designing and building our ideal home. It has taken several years. We basically did self construct with sub contractors, and much of the interior finishing done on our own.
As it turns out, our home is extremely energy efficient, very comfortable and attractive. We've been living in it for nearly three years, doing finishing work while residing in the home. It has become our dream home!
1 comment:
This is great. Would love to see more pictures
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