This earth-sheltered house helps decrease energy costs. If it's good enough for Bill Gates....The Microsoft founder and his wife, Melinda, live in a 66,000-sqaure-foot house in Medina, Washington.

Aesthetics: Earth-sheltered homes blend harmoniously with the landscape, preserving the natural beauty of the surroundings. This, of course, is subjective.

The first thing I noticed was the quiet. The earth surrounding the back and sides of the house muffled the sounds of the outside world, creating a peaceful and serene environment.

Holladay, 54, has spent the past decade building an earth-sheltered tire house into the side of a hill on his 30-acre Louisa property. The 900-square-foot structure has three walls made of about ...

An earth-sheltered form fit for weather extremes Methow Valley common house relies on Passive House principles, superinsulation, advanced air sealing, cross-laminated timber panels and a green ...

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Known as an earth-sheltered mountainside home, it was built on 17 acres by the original owners in 1998 with a nod toward sustainability and the ability to live almost entirely “off the grid.” ...

Dale Antiel of Edina Realty, 715-222-2913, has the listing. This earth-sheltered house on a wooded acreage in River Falls, Wis. on the market for $285,000. (Tom Horgen/Star Tribune) Comment ...

Earth-sheltered homes made of composite materials The Green Magic Homes are composed of prefabricated vaulted panels manufactured with composite laminate materials, confined laterally by walls in ...

Partially Earth-Bermed Homes In partially earth-bermed homes, like the one I lived in, the back and sides are buried into a hill, while the front remains exposed.

He bought the house in 1984. It had been built in 1972 by Pat Clark and Emogene Nelson, two University of Wisconsin River Falls professors, from a design by Stillwater architect Michael McGuire.