Thursday, August 25, 2005

A house o' straw


strawbale nunnery: lakeside
Originally uploaded by paynehollow.

Strawbale homes are environmentally sound, super energy-efficient and can be built by regular folk. Worth checking in to.

4 comments:

the dharma bum said...

neat. but what about the big bad wolf?

Dan Trabue said...

You ever try to blow over a straw bale?

olympiada said...

Hi Dan - Thanks for posting this. I doubt I will ever build my self a house as a single mother - but it is good to be reminded of sustainable architecture.
Oly

Laura said...

We built a strawbale extension onto our mobile home and used it as a bedroom. Very quiet and solid-feeling, except that we didn't have the mobile home supported very well so the join widened into a windy gap. But it was great fun to build, like putting Lego together. The hope now is to sell the mobile home and extend the strawbale porch to make a little cottage.