| Vol 1 Issue 14 | Mindful Living | December, 2010 |
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Spend Your Next Holidays
In the Round! Imagine having your family and friends enjoying a delicious holiday meal in your new round home! Imagine watching the snow fall on your skylight! Imagine being toasty warm snuggled up reading a Christmas story to your grandchildren (or with man's best friend)! Let us make this dream a reality for the 2011 Holiday Season. If you start the design process in January, by April you could have the shell structure set up. Then by August, the interior could be completed. This is plenty of time for you to move things in and get organized by the 2011 Holiday season. Imagine having your family and friends surround your dining room table in your new round home! Are you ready to build in 2011? Call toll free at 800-211-8470 and get your FREE estimate today! HydroTex by Fortifiber Those of you that are not ready right now but definitely want to build a Mindful Living Home someday want to know what changes are taking place with our products and designs. This month we are featuring Hydro Tex by Fortifiber. 
HydroTex is an advanced weather-resistive barrier that delivers a highly efficient drainage solution, It is used in replacement of the WeatherSmart housewrap. It is required on all homes built in the state of Oregon. We think is it such a great product we are offering it as an affordable option for homes outside the state of Oregon.
Benefits of using HydroTex:
Happy Holidays
The holiday season is for spending quality time with family and friends. From our homes to yours, we want to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season.  |
Tragedy Gives Newfound HopeMindful Living invites you to follow the story of the Torsey's. In each newsletter, we will feature an update on their progress. We are very proud to be a part of their new beginning. Their journey starts here: 
We were restoring a small farm in Midcoast Maine, grafting fruit trees and growing perennials, native wildflowers, flower bulbs, and vegetables. For twelve years we've lived in Whitefield working very hard to reclaim the land and our late 1700's cape from years of neglect. Most of the work has been done by hand labor. We have each worked in outside jobs, but our focus is our life together on our farm.
In 2009, one week before Christmas, we awoke to find our beloved old house on fire. We managed to get each other out in the nick of time, carrying only a cover snatched from our bed in the dark. It turned out to be my grandmother's quilt.
The house and contents were a total loss, but thanks to the efforts and skill of volunteer firefighters from eight area towns, the rest of our farm buildings and vehicles were saved.
We are grateful to them as we are for the Red Cross, ambulance crew, First Responders, neighbors, co-workers and employer, family, friends, and strangers, all of whom did what they could to help us during and after the horrific experience. 
We went through every piece of the rubble by hand, sometimes with help from friends, mostly just the two of us. We saved thousands of dollars that way, but more important we put our home to rest and salvaged various meaningful treasures; wedding album, photos and slides, a few family mementoes. All of our many musical instruments, and thousands of carefully selected recordings spanning over a hundred years of music were destroyed by fire, equipment, and water. Pretty much everything we had gathered to create an informal folk arts center was gone.
When we finally decided we wanted to rebuild we wanted something special, a new beginning. We searched through hundreds of house designs of many kinds, consulted with a wonderful architect friend, searched online, talked with many of the people we encountered. We considered another cape, a saltbox, straw bale houses, various small house kits and wood panel yurt companies. Time was running out when we realized that of all the good choices that were available, only Mindful Living offered the combination of a beautiful design, excellent engineering, energy efficiency, and flexible space with a manageable construction timeline.
The Applegate 8 will allow us private space as well as a glorious open area for folk music house concerts with friends, a good place to record music and to listen to vintage and current recordings of many kinds of music. We can paint, and write, repair machinery and graft fruit trees. We can continue our mission of passing on some of the best old skills. We can pick up our lives with joy and confidence, knowing we have a beautiful, peaceful home full of space and light. We are grateful.
We especially want this to help those who have made it possible- Mindful Living, our local contractors, builders, excavators, foundation experts, those who will volunteer their skills as well as those who visit our home and find a good option for their own yurt from Mindful Living. We want our home and our story to generate hope. -Holly & Stephen |
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