Building the round strawbale house

Was the mantra that was repeated over and over by my labouring wife over several months of preparing the house site for the pouring of the s...

We did get the extra timber to finish off the frame and had it up in September. Some cross bracing was then added and all the bolts had to b...

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...