Arched Front Door with Bottle Window
When explaining the concept of an earth sheltered house I often resort to, “Well, it’s like a hobbit house.” The […]
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Homesteading in the Suburbs
Category: Natural Building
EBC: Interior Finishing – Walls, Ceiling, and Trim
We finished infilling the interior walls of the cottage at the end of August. You typically want to give light […]
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EBC: Infilling walls with cob and light clay straw
The walls of the Earth Berm Cottage are infilled! We used a combination of cob and light clay straw. I […]
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Building a Light Clay Straw Tumbler
A light clay straw tumbler is a tool for coating straw with clay slip to create light clay straw which […]
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Why put Cob in the Walls
The Earth Berm Cottage (EBC) is an earth sheltered tiny house. The walls are light wood framed (2×6 studs on […]
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Repairs to the T-Brick Shed
We finished the T-brick shed about five years ago. To recap that construction project here are the primary parts: 1) […]
Read more →Straw Light Clay Curved Wall
In her book Light Straw Clay Construction Lydia Doleman has loads of diagrams like this one that really flesh out building […]
Read more →Straw Light Clay Tumbler Design and Build
We’ve moved on from the straw light clay phase of the build. I’ll have some posts up soon about pulling […]
Read more →Straw Light Clay Wrap up
We had another small work party in early November that got us to around 85% complete. Over the latter half […]
Read more →Straw Light Clay Packing Party Part II
The walls are about 2/3rd packed at this point. We had another work party last weekend that put a significant […]
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