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Below is a featured story by\u00a0Mitka and Ondrej\u00a0Franka of Serbia. In 1985, before heading home to Yugoslavia<\/a>, the couple purchased a copy of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. On the cover was Garlinghouse Solar Home\u00a0Plan 19863<\/a><\/strong>. In the words of\u00a0Ondrej, “Little did we\u00a0know that one day, this will become our\u00a0Dream House.” Many friends and neighbors\u00a0considered the home to be very peculiar during construction, but the Frankas wouldn’t change it for anything.<\/p>\n

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Read on in their\u00a0words:<\/h3>\n

In the year of 1985, after our\u00a0Master studies in USA, we\u00a0set out to go home to our\u00a0home country of Yugoslavia. Just before our\u00a0travel, we\u00a0visited grocery store in Chicago and picked up Better Homes and Gardens magazine, just to have something to show to our\u00a0friends. Oblivious to us, the front page featured Passive Solar\u00a0House, the winner in the national competition. Little did we\u00a0know that one day, this will become our\u00a0Dream House.<\/p>\n

After arrival home, life went about as usually. Now having two children, we\u00a0had to rent a house, even though this was unusual in our\u00a0home country. By the end of 1986, we\u00a0knew that we\u00a0have to get the house of our\u00a0own, as the rent skyrocketed along with the inflation in the country. Thus our\u00a0dream about the house just about started to come true.<\/p>\n

As we\u00a0planned to build the house, looking into different local house plans, a vague picture emerged in our\u00a0minds. The picture was from the front page of the magazine we\u00a0picked up in the States a few years ago. We\u00a0found the forgotten magazine in the pile of old magazines and started to look into its pages. Of course the house on the front page was very appealing, but in our\u00a0eyes almost an impossible thing to happen in the country where this kind of building was unheard of. After our\u00a0parents gave us\u00a0the lot to build on, we\u00a0decided to contact the plan company and got the house plan #19863<\/a><\/strong> for $120. Thus in the spring of 1987 we\u00a0were ready to build. This is when our\u00a0adventure was about to start.<\/p>\n

First, we\u00a0had to get a huge pile of lumber. The traditional building materials and techniques in this country have been dirt, bricks and concrete. Now seeing the huge piles of lumber on our\u00a0lot gave idea to people that a\u00a0new lumberyard is being opened on the site. The lumber was green, rough-cut, random widths as pre-dimensioned lumber was unheard of in this country. Then came the spring weather, and we\u00a0were ready to break the ground.<\/p>\n

To begin with all was fine, the basement was dug out along with the foundations. The berms could not be used, as this part of the country is flat as can\"zSolar<\/a> be. Proverbial saying is that the molehill is the tallest mountain. But then came the rain and the basement, (future green house) got filled with underground water. People thought we\u00a0are building the swimming pool! Then we\u00a0realized that long time problem of spring high water table is still relevant factor to count with. We\u00a0had to wait until the waters receded and then make waterproof and pressure proof walls to enclose it. It was good that this happened as that would create big problems in the future if not dealt with now. But as we\u00a0started to build the house frame, funny things started to happen. The “stick house” was unheard of in our\u00a0country.<\/p>\n

Mentioning the water in the flooded future basement brought another funny connection. We\u00a0had to cut each morning the green lumber to fit our\u00a0need for the day. Each stud by stud, and then it happened. People were very keen to look what is happening on the building site.\u00a0 As the word spread around the town, they were saying that we\u00a0are building a “cow-boy house.” That connotation probably came from watching the American western movies. People were smiling and laughing as they came to see it, not knowing what was going on. Some said that we\u00a0are building a play dollhouse! Certainly, we felt like a Noah building the ark and people ridiculing him not knowing what he was building. Then came more of the funny experiences.<\/p>\n

People were coming and going, giving all kinds of strange comments on the building process of a lumber house. One man thought that our 2×6 walls were too thin and that he could run with his bike through them! Other came in and saw all the studs 24″ O.C. and thought that these are all to be future doors! He asked, “Wow, how many doors are you going to have in this house?” Yet one man thought that we are doing all right, just building the molding to pour the concrete down between the studs and joists. So he gave a tremendous suggestion: “Now I see,” he said, “So when you pour down the concrete you will cut down all those studs and the joists and throw them away!” Of course he did not have a clue as what would happen then!<\/p>\n

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It took us\u00a0twenty-six months to build our Dream House. During the summers in America, we\u00a0learned how to build these kinds of houses, plus our\u00a0friend came to help with the framing. Lot of work, frustrations in searching and looking for equivalent materials, like insulation and dry wall and difficulties of not finding any help, as people did not know what was happening. Yet, in spite of those obstacles, in the spring of 1989 we\u00a0were able to move into it. What a feeling of accomplishment that was!<\/p>\n

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The aftermath of this story is also interesting. Little did we\u00a0know that our\u00a0home country would explode in the civil war in 1992. But not only that, the embargo and thus energy crises would set in. There were electricity plug outs up to few days per week, no coals for the furnaces to heat the houses in the town. Our<\/strong>\u00a0house victoriously withstood the energy crises. It was warm and comfortable even through that difficult time.<\/strong> As people came in they constantly asked, “How come it is\u00a0so warm? Are you heating it? What are your heating materials?” The answer was: “Only sun!”<\/p>\n

Finally, our Dream House has made many friends over these 26 years. At first people were skeptical and laughing at us, but then they started to stop by and asking the questions and to let them in. Even now, quite often we see the cars driving slowly and then stopping in front of our house. Then they roll down the window, take the pictures and finally come out and ask about the house. Of course we let them gladly in and share our story. We\u00a0made many friends through our\u00a0Dream House in Yugoslavia, nowadays Serbia. We\u00a0enjoy the house, the energy savings and thus never regretted building\u00a0the “cowboy house” away from America.<\/p>\n

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