Find a Natural Home for your next holiday...
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One of the best ways to decide what type of
natural home you would like to build is to spend some time
living in one. Some of the homes here are independent
self-catering, others offer hotel accommodation and some are B&B
rooms in the owner's home. Even if your visit is short you will
learn so much about the materials and techniques used to build
these beautiful homes. This is the full list of
natural homes for rent in our Facebook
group.
In many cases the owners will share their knowledge and
experience of building with you and encourage you to build
your own home.
Our collection of holiday
homes is kept in our Facebook to allow the owners to list
and maintain details for you without having to wait for us
to publish their home on this website. If you are a home owner and you would like to list
your natural home with us
details are here. |
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This is Silvestre Village Inn near Mallin Ahogado, El Bolson, Patagonia
in Argentina. The inn is set in the
woods and the grounds of the
CIDEP Permaculture
Centre. The inn is a roundwood frame with light
clay and wattle & daub walls with a green roof.
The inn has two rooms for two people each with kitchenette, dining
room and bathroom.
Details at
Posada Aldea Silvestre. |
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This is the roundhouse at
Bodrifty Farm
in Cornwall, England. All of Britain was once covered with
roundhouses; a simple shape enclosing the largest space for the
least use of materials. The Roundhouse is a
wonderful and authentic replica of a Celtic chief’s thatched
roundhouse and is one of the only structures of its kind in the
World. The Roundhouse offers the unique chance to step back in
time into Cornwall’s and England’s distant Celtic past.
Details at
Hidden
Hideaways. |
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Gualala, CA, USA |
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Tiny Cob Cottage...This wonderful tiny cob home was built by apprentices of the
SunDog
School of Natural Building in Northern California, USA.
The cute little cob cottage features a little wood
fired Rocket Mass Heater for heating, 12 volt off-grid electricity
with USB and automotive outlets and views of the redwood forest.
More details on
AirBnB. |
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Bines Green, West Sussex, UK |
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Roundwood Cottage...
Like many others when Alan Griffiths saw
Ben
Law's cottage in Prickly Nut Woods he fell in love with the
architecture and its sustainability credentials. Like Ben's own
home, all the structural wood and the cedar shingles were grown
locally
The house is on a working dairy farm on the edge
of the South Downs National Park, this unique roundwood timber,
straw bale and cedar shingle holiday cottage is the perfect spot
to escape and unwind.
More details at
Withyfield Cottage. |
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Cardigan, Pembrokeshire, Wales |
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Straw Bale House...
Rachel lived off-grid in a shed in her woodland in Wales, carrying water from a local
spring, using candlelight, a gas stove and a compost loo. She
loved it, but the shed was small, so she built a straw bale
extension onto it with the help of some friends. From this humble
start she has built what has become an iconic home winning the
2009
Grand Designs eco-house award.
Quiet Earth Retreat is a two storey load bearing
straw bale house with open plan kitchen-living room and an
upstairs large studio which can offer a luxury bedroom or space
for a group. Stunning views over the Welsh landscapes and beaches.
More details on
AirBnB. |
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Vas, Hungary |
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Tiny Cordwood Cottage...
The cottage is a half-roundwood timber frame with
a roundwood
reciprocal roof
and an infill of cords of wood with cob (clay, sand and straw)
mortar. You can see
the construction stages on their Facebook page
Hegy tanyak Hungary.
A cobwood cottage on a small scale ecological farm on the edge of
Orseg National Park. Details (in Dutch) at
Hegytanyak |
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Linzerbot, Nax, Switzerland |
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Big Bale Straw Bale Hotel...
Lisa and Louis took 250 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere and locked
it into
the walls of their
straw bale guesthouse in the
beautiful alpine valley
of Val d'Herens in Switzerland.
A Big Bale, straw bale hotel ideal for nature lovers and for
recharging your batteries in any season.
Details at
Maya
Hotel. |
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Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales |
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Cae Mabon hamlet nestles in an oak forest
clearing by a little river that cascades down to the nearby lake.
There are a collection of naturally built homes where people can
stay. Pictured on the left is a Welsh redwood
timber framed building known as The Chalet. On the right is a
cedar Hogan, a hexagonal log building traditional to the Navajo
people in the USA with a pine corbelled roof. Details at
Cae Mabon. |
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