“This home was featured in the pilot episode of The Natural House. It shows how a timber frame home built with straw clay insulation and earthen plasters can be healthy and beautiful. Segment 2 of 3.”
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Cottage – My 600 Square Foot Micro-house
Tour of a simple yet charming tiny house, replete with lots of custom details.
Update on our Recycled Wood House
Today is our slow day and so I thought I’d pull together a short blog post about our recycled wood house. It’s coming along nicely as you can see in the photo above. The walls are mostly done now. My favorite feature is the wide porch that overlooks the front gate and forest garden. There’s … Read more
Straw Bale Dome Home in France
This fine looking home in France was built for a materials cost of only £2,500 ($3,800). This is one of the nicest homes we’ve profiled recently. Projects like this really keep me energized about natural building. Please forward to everyone you know and help this go viral.
Do-it-yourself Pole-barn Building
Put up a pole building for a fast, solid and cost-effective workshop, storage space or livestock shelter.
Rice Hull B&B in Thailand
“Slightly before my 60th birthday I realised I had made no plans for my old age, and did not have any money put aside for it either. Thailand was my home, but no government pensions available, so what could I do that I would enjoy, which would also bring in a bit of money to live by. I decided to buy some land with my last few pennies, and go to the UK for a few years and earn some money, and save every penny I could. I bought a fantastic piece of land in Chiang Dao, northern Thailand, and spent several years in the UK saving like mad.