Holidays are a good time to dream about the future, and what you’re going to build one day.
Here’s some articles to get you inspired about building with a minimum of money and a maximum of passion for creating natural, living homes and shelter.
Let there be Mud: the Basics of Natural Building
Natural Building is rather a broad subject. It takes in everything from strawbale building to cobb, light earth, rammed earth, roundwood construction, earth floors and mud and lime wall renders, just for starters.
Raising a small home in four days flat
Once apon a time we built a home in 4 days. A round, load-bearing strawbale tiny house with a roundwood reciprocating living roof, to be precise. And when I say ‘built’ I suppose I mean that we got it mostly done. It was amazing to be a part of.
Our Tiny House makes the news
One of my favourite things about this magazine article is the fact that our simple bucket style compost toilet made it to a lifestyle magazine! Yay for societal shift.
Making a DIY Earthen Floor: two methods
After completing the strawbale walls and the roundwood, reciprocal roof of the roundhouse, we wanted a gorgeous floor to complete this hand-crafted natural building. So an earthen floor was a natural choice.
Making a Living Roof
Living roofs can help insulate the building below, provide pollination sources for surrounding wildlife and help the building blend into the landscape.
Building a Portable Reciprocal Roundhouse Frame
Using sapling logs (though you can use bamboo instead, or framing timber, at a pinch) plus ropes and screws, this structure went up fast and is a great foundation for all sorts of projects.
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Whew. It’s a big muddy world on there in natural building land. Utterly worth it, though, to be able to create a home that loves you back. Food for thought indeed.
…all our Natural Building articles are here.
