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Home-building videos

Videos we picked on each way a house gets built, from framing a stud wall to an off-grid village. They are grouped by method, and each group links to a network site that covers that method in more depth.

How a home gets built Green & high-performance Off-grid Shipping-container Underground & earth-sheltered Stone & natural building Tiny homes & villages
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How a home gets built

Foundations, framing, and the order the work happens in.

buildercamp.com →
All House Framing EXPLAINED… in Just 12 Minutes
▶ The Honest Carpenter
House Framing Explained… in 5 Minutes
▶ Arch Guide
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Green & high-performance

Passive House, net-zero homes, and the building science behind a house that uses very little energy.

greenhomevideo.com →
Home of the Future: Zero-Energy Passive House
▶ TDC
What Is Net Zero — Building a Net Zero House
▶ WildCenter
7 Details You Need to Emulate from this Boston Builder
▶ Matt Risinger
The Risinger Build Ep. 12 — Air Tightness & Control Layers
▶ Matt Risinger
Matt Risinger Visits our “500-Year” Home
▶ NS Builders
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Off-grid

Solar, batteries, and the systems that let a home run itself.

offgridder.com →
Complete Off-Grid Solar Power System & Battery Bank (Start to Finish)
▶ Vanwives
Overview of an Entire Off-Grid Solar System for a Whole House
▶ DavidPoz
58 Solar Panels Later — Our Complete Off-Grid Setup
▶ The Quinta
DIY Off-Grid Solar Power System for Home
▶ Martin Johnson — Off Grid Living
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Shipping-container

Homes built from shipping containers, with full builds, layouts and cost breakdowns.

cargosolar.com →
We Built a Shipping Container Home (Full Tour)
▶ Tyler and Todd
40ft Shipping Container Layout + Construction Tour
▶ Containing Luxury
Full Container Home Build — Start-to-Finish Timelapse
▶ Think Outside The Container
$700,000 Triple Shipping Container Home (Full Tour & Cost Breakdown)
▶ MikeWillTravel
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Underground & earth-sheltered

Homes banked into hillsides and dug into the earth, where the ground does the heating and cooling.

earthscrapers.com →
Living Underground: Building an Earth-Sheltered Home
▶ Liveration
He Built an Underground Maze of Light-Filled Earth Homes in the CA Sierras
▶ Kirsten Dirksen
Engineer’s Underground Dome Home Blends into the Desert
▶ Kirsten Dirksen
Couldn’t Afford a House — Now He Builds His Own Underground Missouri Home
▶ Kirsten Dirksen
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Stone & natural building

Houses built from stone, earth and timber.

stonedom.com →
He Excavated an Earth-Sheltered Home of Dry Stone into a Rugged Seacliff
▶ Kirsten Dirksen
Inside a Home Built from Earth, Stone and Timber (House Tour)
▶ The Local Project
Veteran Coder Builds a Stone-Covered Dome Home into a Texas Hill
▶ Kirsten Dirksen
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Tiny homes & villages

Small homes, and pocket neighborhoods that group them around shared space.

smallhomevillage.com →
A New Tiny House Village — Pocket Neighborhoods Hit Atlanta
▶ relaxshacksDOTcom
A Dream Tiny House Community — Village & 2 Tiny Home Tours
▶ Tiny House Expedition
Woman Builds a 30-Home Pocket Neighborhood with Community at the Center
▶ Flock Finger Lakes