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Using Cordwood – 1 Building Technique but with Many Names
Have you ever heard of cordwood masonry, cordwood construction, stack wall, log-end, stovewood or stack wood? It is a wall-building technique that has been used for centuries to construct homes, barns, saunas, and other structures. The method involves laying whole or split logs, with the ends facing out, in a bed of mortar.The thickness of […]
Natural Home Interiors
Most of us live in conventional homes with smooth, plasterboard walls, nice square corners, regulation height ceilings and perfectly symmetrical windows. They’re nice, they’re neat, but if we really, really look at them, most of our houses are very boring. On the other hand, we have natural homes. Sure there might be lots of dust […]
Bamboo Brilliance – Wind and Water Cafe
Bamboo Brilliance
The Interesting 20 Acres Green School of Bali
Bali, Indonesia – John and Cynthia Hardy Builders: PT Bambu The Green School of Bali, Indonesia. Rainforests continue to disappear at an alarming rate. Environmentalists and designers, John and Cynthia Hardy have experienced the loss and degradation firsthand in their adopted home, Bali. The Hardys wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably, thereby protecting those forests. Building sustainably […]
The Hobbit House
Wales – Simon Dale What do you get when you cross a minimum budget with a maximum concern for the environment – a low impact woodland home. Using almost entirely recycled materials, or resources already on site, Simon Dale and Jasmine Saville built their hobbit home in only 4 months and on a $3000 budget […]