This tiny house has an incredible story to tell. At only 10m2 (or 108 ft2) this home on wheels has been constructed almost entirely from salvaged materials. Despite it’s micro footprint, it’s a fully functional home for a family of three.
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Teenage Sons and Father build entire Earthbag House for $7,000
“Teenage sons and father give a detailed breakdown of their $7000 Earthbag House build.” Great project. Highly recommended for every natural builder to watch due to number of good ideas, low cost and family cooperation.
Urban Walnut Tree Removal and Slabbing
Learn how to get free building materials. As shown, sometimes you can get incredibly valuable trees such as walnut for free.
Javier Senosiain – Organic Architecture
The organic house is born with the idea of creating an area adapted for man, according to his environmental, physical and psychological needs.
Migrating Culture Earthbag Chalet
Sometimes I go back and research previous projects to see if there’s any news. I was pleasantly surprised to see the NGO Migrating Culture making excellent progress in Ghana. Earlier we profiled their Mahali Project. Since then they’re gone on to build other projects include this very nice modern earthbag home called the Aseseeso Project. You can see a slideshow of the entire build.
Replace Old Yurt with Strawbale Roundhouse
Question from Kristen, one of our readers: Any tips or pointers for building a strawbale roundhouse on post and piers?? I have a yurt with a permanent post and pier foundation with concrete piers going 2 feet down and 1.5 feet wide. I want to take down the yurt and build a strawbale house, and since the floor is already round use the layout I have…Thanks for any direction as my husband and I will be doing this ourselves and enlisting our 16 year old son and any friends we can have come help.