The Top 10 natural buildings on Natural Homes during 2013
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This is Natural Homes' Top 10 posts for 2013
as chosen by your Facebook LIKEs
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more about each house in the top 10 with
plenty of natural building details, pictures, videos and
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No.1 Charlie's House
With over 86,000 LIKEs, Charlie's house (above) out guns its nearest
rival by over 66,000 LIKEs. More than any other house it was
Charlie's work that captured your imagination and support. It was
the two month death sentence issued by a planning inspector that
outraged you all when he said, "the benefits of the development
did not outweigh the harm to the character and appearance of the
countryside". You disagreed and supported Charlie's
petition to save his house with over 61,000 votes. Happily
Charlie and family are still living in their globally loved home
and he is hopeful the council can be persuaded to let them live
there.
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No.2 Cob... 10 of the Best
With over 20,000 LIKEs the "Natural Homes Cob House
Collection... 10 of the Best" came in 2nd place presenting cob
homes from all over the world from England (left) to the Ukraine
and South Africa to the USA.
The collection included the beautiful Goatlings home that took
the No.5 spot in its own article with 17,000+ LIKEs.
Two of the homes ended up on TV after Kanal D Romanian TV News
and the producers of UK Channel 4's "George Clarke's Amazing
Spaces" contacted us at Natural Homes.
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No.3 Cob House Interiors
You took the "Cob House Interiors: Six beautiful
and unique homes around the world." article to third place with
18,000+ LIKEs, the darling of the collection being the living room at Korobov farm
in the Ukraine.
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No.4 Inspired by SunRay Kelly
At No.4 with just over 18,000 Likes but some 200 LIKEs behind
the No.3 spot was SunRay's video where he talks about his work and
shows some of the wonderful homes he builds saying,
"All building was natural building a hundred years ago. So it's
not that far back. In order to go forward we have to go
backward... We want to return to a cooperation with nature"
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No.5 Cob in Somerset, England
This beautiful tiny home with sculpted cob walls
looks out over the banks of a small stream in Somerset, England.
17,000+ LIKEs took it to No.5. It was built by Lisa and Rich who
are known at festivals in the UK as the Goatlings.
With all the terrible weather all over the globe
this little cottage was nearly lost when the river that runs past
it burst its banks. Luckily the stone stem wall was just high
enough to protect the cob and straw bale walls.
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No.6 Building a Roundhouse.
This step by step Celtic roundhouse in Wales at
the natural living centre Felin Uchaf brought in
your votes to the tune of 16,000+ LIKEs.
Wales is a bit of a Meca for natural building,
particularly roundhouses where there are the remains of over 1,000
Iron Age hillforts each with many similar homes.
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No.7 Cordwood by Tony Wrench
Again in Wales Tony Wrench's cordwood roundhouse came in at
No.7 with 13,000+ LIKEs. Tony makes wonderful videos to inspire
others to build simple homes from natural materials. Cobwood, as
he calls it, and the reciprocal green roof are his specialities.
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No.8 Pallet Pavilion, Germany
Completely out of the blue the surprise at No.8
was the Pallet Pavilion in Germany that was built as a temporary
meeting place for media and athletes after the World Ski
Championships in Oberstdorf. You'll find a guideline for selecting
pallets and a collection of videos of some less ambitious projects
you can try at home.
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No.9 Heidi's cottage, Finland.
With 11,000+ LIKEs Heidi Vilkman's cottage in
Finland took place No.9. Heidi is an artist who used her home like
a canvas to express her love of nature. The house has a
bewildering collection of natural building techniques from
earthbag to cordwood and everything in between, even a birch bark
damp proof course.
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No.10 Russia's Dacha Gardeners
Finally at No.10 just pushing the
Winckler in to 11th place are the Russian Dacha Gardeners who
set such a wonderfully inspiring example by growing 40% of the
Russia's food.
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2014 in full swing... Natural Homes looks forward to 2014 being
as much fun as 2013. We hope you enjoyed the year with us and that
you will be inspired to build using natural materials and take
more and more steps towards a natural living lifestyle.
Regards,
The
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