Anyone living in a yurt full time with children?
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Pacific Yurts
Manufacturer Representative, Pacific Yurts
You might read through this blog An Alaskan Family with a Yurt. The family has lived in their yurt with small children for the past four years. The yurt was just recently moved from the original site where it was built on top of a garage structure and is being finished a second time at a new location.
HawaiiYurts
Industry Specialist, Yurts of Hawaii
You can also add a yurt down the road as they get older, or build a 'two-story' yurt, laying a concrete foundation and walling it in later down the road as you can afford. There are many great ways to build in phases for a growing family 
Keep us posted!
Keep us posted!
Circle In
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Well, yes! Our family has lived in a 24' yurt for the last 4 months, including our 2 year old and a 6 year old. I think it might actually be the optimal ages as they find it absolutely "normal" and magical and fun. I'm curious myself how long it will work so nicely as they grow. We started a blog when we moved in and this might give an idea of how it has worked, for us anyway. Circle In
Wow, wow, wow!!! Thanks so much for your reply, just read a post on your blog and loving it!! This is what I want to do!
I'm currently trying to figure out what to do with our lives. My husband doesn't mind what we do, whether we stay where we are living a boring, poor life, or something exciting like being mortgage free and living in a yurt! It's all up to me to plan it, and it's overwhelming! I thought I decided not to do the yurt thing, but seeing your blog is making it come back again! Can I email you somehow?
And I love that you're into Waldorf!
I'm currently trying to figure out what to do with our lives. My husband doesn't mind what we do, whether we stay where we are living a boring, poor life, or something exciting like being mortgage free and living in a yurt! It's all up to me to plan it, and it's overwhelming! I thought I decided not to do the yurt thing, but seeing your blog is making it come back again! Can I email you somehow?
And I love that you're into Waldorf!
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We have been living full time mainly in a 30 foot Pacific Yurt (we have an additional 14 foot one as well thats attached). We built them a couple of winters ago. The Yurts themselves are excellent and fair in price I felt... it was all the 'other' costs that really got to us and have been very hard to cope with. Overall I love the whole set up.
We have 2 kids that have lived there since they were little... I think we started out living there when they were 5 and 7... ish? Our oldest is quite disabled with difficulty moving around/walking and cannot speak. Our youngest is a very hyperactive imaginative boy. We were in the yurt full time for at least... 2 years. We have harsh winters here and pretty major storms for most of the year and the yurts and kids have braved it all like pro's. Even when the wind picks up to 70-100 + km/h gusts through the night they don't even flinch and they sleep in the loft with the tarp not even 2 feet over their beds
The kids love it... truly. They are pretty well adjusted ppl to start out with anyway.
It is with regret that we have to leave our beautiful home and the land its on and move back to the other side of the country... We need to go, but it is bitter sweet... I love my yurt... it is the most innovative beautiful cozy space ive ever known and it just inspires and hosts so much creativity... thats a profoundly good thing for kids. it teaches them that less is really more, how to live differently... without sounding cliche to 'think outside the box'. Its benefits have been profound for me, the kids... the husband. I wish I could just pick it up and move it with us (but even tho they are mobile... ours is very much a permanent structure with an easy 100 k in the land alone utility-wise).
I hope you find what works for you and financial freedom through whatever you decide.
We have 2 kids that have lived there since they were little... I think we started out living there when they were 5 and 7... ish? Our oldest is quite disabled with difficulty moving around/walking and cannot speak. Our youngest is a very hyperactive imaginative boy. We were in the yurt full time for at least... 2 years. We have harsh winters here and pretty major storms for most of the year and the yurts and kids have braved it all like pro's. Even when the wind picks up to 70-100 + km/h gusts through the night they don't even flinch and they sleep in the loft with the tarp not even 2 feet over their beds
The kids love it... truly. They are pretty well adjusted ppl to start out with anyway.
It is with regret that we have to leave our beautiful home and the land its on and move back to the other side of the country... We need to go, but it is bitter sweet... I love my yurt... it is the most innovative beautiful cozy space ive ever known and it just inspires and hosts so much creativity... thats a profoundly good thing for kids. it teaches them that less is really more, how to live differently... without sounding cliche to 'think outside the box'. Its benefits have been profound for me, the kids... the husband. I wish I could just pick it up and move it with us (but even tho they are mobile... ours is very much a permanent structure with an easy 100 k in the land alone utility-wise).
I hope you find what works for you and financial freedom through whatever you decide.
Michael Hill
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Hi. I am an Associated Press reporter based in Albany NY trying to find people in NY or nearby who live year-round in their yurt. Can anyone help me. Many thanks!
Michael Hill
518-458-7821
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Michael Hill
518-458-7821
mhill::email::ap.org
SeverTheTether
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My wife and I recently finished and moved into our yurt (end of August), and we live with our 3 teenagers (plus one of their boyfriends).
That's 6 of us, in a 30' yurt, with a dog!
That's 6 of us, in a 30' yurt, with a dog!
Great to know there is a forum for this super awesome question! My husband and I are about ready to put up our 16 foot yurt on our land with the intention of living in it with our three children ages 8, 5, and 1. I love planning the working with the layout. Our goal is to include a small tub, kitchen area, and sleeping loft of the older kids, 5 gal bucket toilet, and adult sleeping area. At first I thought are we out of our minds? Actually, we might be but more importantly is that we love an adventure and needed a place to live. I look forward to the wisdom and ideas that may be exchanged on this forum!
Good luck! We live year round with our two kids 10 & 8, 2 cats and 1 dog in a 30'er with 150 sqft loft,it is just right cant imagine it beeing any smaller. We have also built, seperate & attached buildings for bathroom and outhouse. i see a small cob addition in our future
If you can keep the bathroom seperate do it , there is just to much condensastion developed which is already a problem that has to be delt with from cooking and breathing.
mold can be a problem and on going battle, but worth it. Yurts rock!!
If you can keep the bathroom seperate do it , there is just to much condensastion developed which is already a problem that has to be delt with from cooking and breathing.
mold can be a problem and on going battle, but worth it. Yurts rock!!
Ouryurtlife
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We live in our 30 ft yurt with our three children, 8, 6, and 4 (and our two frenchies!) it seems to be the perfect size for us . I believe building our bathhouse separate was our best decision, it is a 14x16 building with an a frame roof to provide room for storage in a small attic, and also serves as our mudroom/utility room for laundry. Finding a spot for clothing was difficult in the children's loft so keeping the clothing in the bathhouse helped give them some more space for play in their little area too. With purchasing building materials via craigslist, directly from lumber yards, and doing nearly all the labor ourselves, we were able to budget the whole building for less than 1,800. (Not including our compostable toilet, which was our largest cost.)
. I believe building our bathhouse separate was our best decision, it is a 14x16 building with an a frame roof to provide room for storage in a small attic, and also serves as our mudroom/utility room for laundry. Finding a spot for clothing was difficult in the children's loft so keeping the clothing in the bathhouse helped give them some more space for play in their little area too. With purchasing building materials via craigslist, directly from lumber yards, and doing nearly all the labor ourselves, we were able to budget the whole building for less than 1,800. (Not including our compostable toilet, which was our largest cost.)Ouryurtlife......I would LOVE to see pictures of your yurt and bath house if you have them! I found this forum because I googled "Family living in a yurt" after I roped off a 30 foot circle in my front yard and thought "yeah, that's not gonna happen". Oddly, my family consists of me, my husband, and 3 kids.....8, 6, and 4, plus 2 dogs 
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I had the idea of a bath house off the back but I was thinking something small.......I think 14x16 might be a better idea. Now I just need some visual inspiration!
) I had the idea of a bath house off the back but I was thinking something small.......I think 14x16 might be a better idea. Now I just need some visual inspiration!