Building the round strawbale house

The frame is almost finished now, and would have been finished if not for a change of plans. Originally when ordering the timber we were goi...

Our little building site has still been fairly quiet.  We managed to get a quarter of the purlins (the timber that will hold the roofing iro...

Its been a bit quiet on the building site lately.  Such is the life of an owner builder!  But some progress has been made. We had brackets...

Well, we've been talking mostly about building the Round Strawbale House so far, but since there hasn't been a lot of building happe...

Location is a very important part of building a house, and probably one of the most important when building a sustainable house  Its also on...

We finally finished putting up all the posts and main beams recently.  It was a proud moment to get the last post and beam up.  A job, that ...

Since the last post the tower we built to hold up the central collar (the metal bracket that holds all the beams as they meet in the middle)...