Beauty and the Dome
Recently a Monolithic customer wrote to us expressing his enthusiasm regarding the beauty of Monolithic Dome homes. We think his letter is worth reading and wanted to share it with all our website visitors:
Dear Mr. South,
I saw your ad in Popular Science. I have always loved the beauty of a dome house. I really like your instructive website. Although I am not in the market for a home right now, because I am between jobs. I will return to your site many times.
If we could travel in time into the future, I firmly believe we would arrive to see cities full of beautiful, efficient domes -- with locally produced hydrogen as the power source.
Twenty years ago, I had an acquaintance who built a two-story dome in a college town on the Missouri-Iowa border. The bedrooms were upstairs and open to the main room. The moment I walked into the home, I was not shocked like some people are. I was awakened. The openness, the even temperature with no drafts, and the feeling of safety and security made me feel "juiced" with an intense feeling of creativity. I was not boxed in -- physically or mentally! I would like to see you mention to your site visitors the feeling of home and creativity one gets in a dome, particularly a dome built using your design ideas.
Finally, I get so tired of watching home improvement shows about restoring a "box" house. Why spend so much time and money, cutting and fitting on an old wood house? It has been done to infinity! I grew up in an 1880 Victorian prairie box house. So many people still love my Mother's house, but when we tried to change the furniture arrangement the rooms were always just a foot or two short one way or the other and the drafts were terrible. As a little kid in bed, I remember the curtains on the very tall windows moving out 2 or 3 inches at the bottom from cold air pressure on long winter nights. To a child those long white curtains became ghosts! And the long halls -- I remember a Abbott and Costello movie with Costello running down a long hall....it was just like at home.
Finally, I am so tired of the millions of "box" houses here in the Midwest. The remind me of the old stereotypic wood outhouse. A rectangular vertical box with a triangle box on top. How many variations on that construction can you make?
Thank you for listening. Please keep up the excellent work.
Daniel Turner
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Dome Park Place - Italy, TX 76651
Tel (972)483-7423 - Fax (972)483-6662
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