Hobbit Huts Become New Luxury in Home Design

What is luxury living to you? Is it a combination of technology, limited materials, expensive design, intricate details, and sterile innovation? We’d like to challenge this thinking, suggesting that luxury should rather be artistic, simple, useful, and absolutely beautiful in a completely imperfect way.

Small may be the new awesome in home design, but size itself certainly isn’t going to win you any recognition. What will is making the most of your available space, understanding the difference between necessity and art, and creating perfection through the imperfect eye.

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While it is a common belief that technology should be luxurious, expensive, and highly processed. There are still a few things that are best when created from the heart rather than a computer, including poetry, oil paintings, and low-impact architecture.

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The magnificent home designs you are about to see share the common goal of trying to fit within nature, rather than dominate it. They have been built from humble materials, including dirt, stone, wood, grass, and stucco, and may have cost as little as $5,000 to complete from start to finish (assuming you did most of the building).