Nice to look at, but I prefer something underground ultimately. I was looking into decommissioned Atlas F missile silos. Many of them have water leakage issues (one in Texas had about 40 feet of water to be drained out, but the asking price was about $30K).
I've noticed that much is made of the Radon gas issue. Government doesn't want you to build underground. It's much harder for them to root out gophers, but those who build above ground structures can be invaded like Waco.
So my ideal home would be an underground structure built on a hill above the water table. The ground temperature is a little above 40 F year around once you get below 4'. This means that you don't need air conditioning in the summer time and in the winter, you don't burn as much wood because the difference between indoor comfortable temperature and the ground is rarely more than 30 degrees.
Yeah that would be ideal. Sounds great man, let me know if you ever do something like that. I would love to visit :-)