Building the round strawbale house

These are the basic ingredients to the base coat of render that we are using to protect the straw bales. All the straw bale walls are all ...

We had the strawbales for our house delivered in mid December last year and there was a bit of huffing and puffing getting them unloaded fro...

Its a few weeks now (time really does get away from you sometimes) since we finished lining the ceiling.  We decided to use ordinary pine li...

It was a very foggy and gloomy day (one of the few we have had all winter) that we finally poured the concrete slab for the house.  That was...

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...