Building the round strawbale house

Over one and a bit days (we probably could have sqeezed it into one LONG day) we got the inner ring of posts and the connecting ring beams u...

Since we got the timber a few weeks ago I have been trying to work out a) how to handle the timber and b) how to cut it up. The posts are un...

Yesterday the first truck load of our timber arrived from Bowerbird Timber .  Our house is of a post and beam construction, so instead of th...

We were incredibly fortunate to have a small group of helpers (both family and friends) to assist us with our first concrete pour last weeke...

Preparing the site was the first step.  We hired an excavator/bobcat operator (we hired him before to do our driveway a few years ago), and ...

Five years ago we designed our house, as part of our planning permit application.  We had been interested in alternative energy, sustainable...