Building the round strawbale house

It has been a while since the last post, but we have been pretty busy and slowly getting things done on the house. We finished the first win...

Well, we finally finished the first coat of render on the outside of the strawbale walls on new years eve and we are pretty happy with the r...

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...