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Vintage small house plans

If you’re thinking of building on Gabriola and are considering a small house, here’s something you might like: vintage plans for small houses. The site includes quite a few options, like the 1923 Sears Brookside, which is a 567-square foot craftsman-style bungalow. Of course, you can no longer order the entire house as a kit [...]

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Whiskey barrel house

You’re planning to build a house on Gabriola, and we’ll help. Here’s the plan: build a house made out of recycled whiskey barrels. To begin, order lots and lots of whiskey. We’ll do the difficult work of drinking the whiskey for you. Then you can continue with the rest of the building. What a plan!

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Floating houses – useful for Gabriola?

We get serious amounts of rain on Gabriola in the winter months, and we know people on the island whose basements and crawl-spaces flood every year. We also know some people whose Gabriola property is very swampy. With that in mind, I was fascinated by the land-locked floating house. (Go look!) How amazing is that? [...]

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