Best Materials for Natural Building in the Pacific Northwest

This charming little hybrid house on Vancouver Island is built with straw-clay, earth plaster and rustic local wood.
This charming little hybrid house on Vancouver Island is built with straw-clay, earth plaster and rustic local wood.

Reader question: I am hoping to start building a home in the Pacific Northwest this summer. I have been reading EVERYTHING I can on building with cob, hyperadobe and strawbales, and am trying to come up with a solution that I can afford and build on my own (I am recently divorced with four kids and no family or friends available to help build).

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Rockstar’s Magical Woodland Cabin

“Alban “Snoopy” Pfisterer is still perhaps most well known as the drummer for the rock-band ‘Love’ who rose to fame in the late 60’s. After leaving the group though, Alban’s life took a very different turn, leading him away from life in the public eye and into a remote and beautiful cabin in the forests of Olympia, Washington.

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