Here’s a shot of me just before the guest yurt arrived, preparing the site:


If you’ve read “Mongolian Cloud Houses” by Dan Frank Kuehn, you’ll be forgiven for thinking it bears a passing resemblance to page 62:


I forgive you. (See?)

Credit going where it deserves, I’d like to thank Dan for saving us hundreds of euros we don’t have, by demonstrating how a yurt platform can be made from earth. (I am convinced this is the building material of the future.) We did splash out a few euros on some sand to make it super flat, and we’ve topped it off with a plastic vapour barrier and some carpet, neither of which you can see in this shot:


Thanks also for giving me permission to use the image from his book. A bottle of something special will be waiting for you in écovallée any time, served in the kitchen on the right of this shot:


I love how the yurt sits into the hillside from this angle. Even though I say so myself, it’s superb.

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