A beautiful cob cottage in the making in Victoria, Australia.
Michelle is
building a seriously interesting cob house with wonderful
pargeting, a rumford fireplace and other delightful natural
components.
This is a house
Natural Homes will come back to again when it's finished,
although a living hand-made home is rarely finished. Michelle
(below) is building a seriously interesting
home in Victoria, Australia. The cob house is dripping with wonderful
clay designs (known as
pargeting).
Pictured above is an impressive cob column
decorated as the trunk of a tree whose roots form an earthen seat
beside a
rumford fireplace.
Michelle says, "Sculpting
your own home will empower you, leave you free from a life-long
debt and teach you how to truly appreciate our earth."
Upstairs in the sleeping loft are some beautifully decorated niche and bottle windows
(above). The house has plenty of delightful natural components
like herbs in the sheep's wool roof insulation (below left and
right) to keep insects at bay. Traditionally home builders leave a
coin under the front door sill or the fire place but Michelle and
friends have left messages in a bottle in the cob wall (bottom
right).
