If you don’t look carefully, you might not even see the home that Jonathan Ridley - Jones and Shanon Ridd built at all! That’s because the house is a converted underground water tank. The only thing that can be seen from the surface is a door leading into the hillside. “We’ve never wanted to live in an ordinary house,” Shanon says. “Living below ground that our home is quiet and very cosy – none of the usual draughts. It doesn’t damage the local surroundings and has very low fuel bills. Some of our friends find it dark and feel shut in when they first visit, but they soon gut used to it!”
If an underground home doesn’t appeal to you. how about living in the tree tops? Dan Garner, a tree surgeon from Gloucestershire, certainly thinks that is the way to go up in the world.