Yurt Living: Book Review

Honestly, I researched small sustainable home building options for three years and was not sold on a yurt until I realized the fabric kits are the least expensive and fastest way to build a home. That was 2008 August. Architectural plans, finances, property construction, etc. caused me to store the yurt until I moved in 2009 April. My new home was erected in three days. This is 2010 February (almost a year of yurt dwelling) and I just recently completed this fabulous book.

Read rave reviews on Amazon Books from people who may have never stepped into a yurt. They express how wonderfully written this book, YURTS Living in the Round by Becky Kemery, is. I’m here to tell you it is also excellent from an existing yurt dweller’s perspective.

Of course it would be wise to read this book before constructing a yurt, but my point is that this is priceless information either way. Author Becky’s thoroughness with excellent photographs is amazing. Hard to believe anyone knows more about yurt living than she does and I can’t think of a detail she’s omitted. In fact, I am surprised building codes are addressed because it is such a complex issue, but the fearless author does. Yurt living does attract off-grid and nomad types, who aren’t so unique these days.

As author Becky emphasizes, round living creates a magical connection to nature. Some may interpret her comments and inserted poems in the book as religious, but it is spiritual, and there is a difference. Due to the unique round living positive energy, I can’t imagine returning to a rectangular or conventional home for the rest of my years on Earth. Becky expresses such sentiments beautifully.

Comments

becky says:

February 14, 2010 at 5:41 am

Thanks, Delia, for the lovely review.

You’ve taken up the torch and are now running with it, continuing to explore various design aspects of yurts, for which I’m most grateful. Thanks for all your good work.

I’d like to invite your readers to visit the companion site to the book, http://www.yurtinfo.org, where they will find lots of information and some excerpts from the book. And please do join me on my new Yurtlady facebook page.

Best of luck to all who are dreaming of yurts,

becky kemery
Author of “YURTS: Living in the Round”
http://www.yurtinfo.org
http://www.livingintheround.org

becky says:

February 14, 2010 at 5:41 am

Thanks, Delia, for the lovely review.

You’ve taken up the torch and are now running with it, continuing to explore various design aspects of yurts, for which I’m most grateful. Thanks for all your good work.

I’d like to invite your readers to visit the companion site to the book, http://www.yurtinfo.org, where they will find lots of information and some excerpts from the book. And please do join me on my new Yurtlady facebook page.

Best of luck to all who are dreaming of yurts,

becky kemery
Author of “YURTS: Living in the Round”
http://www.yurtinfo.org
http://www.livingintheround.org

Jennie Redwine says:

March 11, 2010 at 11:27 pm

Great review of a wonderful book. I work at the Colorado Yurt Company and we recommend Becky’s book often. It covers all the details you need for yurt living and still manages to convey the romance and dream of living in a structure that allows you to be so close to nature and still be protected from it’s harsh side at the same time.

Jennie Redwine says:

March 11, 2010 at 11:27 pm

Great review of a wonderful book. I work at the Colorado Yurt Company and we recommend Becky’s book often. It covers all the details you need for yurt living and still manages to convey the romance and dream of living in a structure that allows you to be so close to nature and still be protected from it’s harsh side at the same time.

Diy says:

January 13, 2011 at 3:13 pm

Yurts is written wonderfully. It is straightforward and brief, bright and packed with pictures, and features almost everything you’d ever have to know about yurts. No doubt upon reading the book that the writer has used her very own comprehensive personal experience and knowledge in crafting it.