Dream Home 2010:

Our the Eco-House in Grimstad ....
Our family consists of Marit and Roar, three now grown children and one grandchild.
11 years ago we followed the dream of living by the sea, and the family moved from Eastern to Southern Norway, where we in the beginning were renting a summer house. After that it has been uphill both, it’s been long and tough, and the children have grown up along the way.
But now, finally, after all these years, we have some land in a neighbourhood with good friends, and we have ready, gotten approved plans for our dream house. It is planned as a modest house made from natural materials, insulated with wood and solar collectors on the roof. The house is going to be climate and environment-friendly in production, use and thereafter. It’s going to fit in all phases of life. Friendly, warm and durable.
But then there was another rock in the sea. It has been shown that the property’s ground is made of loads of clay. The whole house must be built on long steel pilers, down through to twelve meters of clay and in to solid mountain. This is expensive. So expensive that it might topple our dream completely. Again…