Cob Homes and Cob Building around the World
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This is a collection of shortcuts to pictures of
cob homes from all over the world. Click on any of the
pictures below to visit the page, read more about the house,
follow links to builder's or owner's websites and, if you are a
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Cob roundhouse, Canada
This is the garden room at O.U.R ecoVillage. Part of the charm
in this room comes from the nasturtium flowers filtering the
light [pattern No. 238, ‘Filtered Light’]. |
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Cob cottage, USA
This is an inside out view of Ianto and
Linda's living room which, incidentally demonstrates
beautifully pattern No.180, a low sill window space. |
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Cob house, England
This cob cottage in Deddington, England cost
almost nothing to build. It was built by Michael Buck almost
exclusively from materials from his farm. |
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Tiny cob house, England
Something magical happens when sunlight dances
of the surface of water making patterns on the wall. |
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Cob cottage, Canada
This is an inside out view of Kate's 1,200
sq.ft (111 m2) cob house on Mayne Island, British Columbia,
Canada. |
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Cob cottage, USA
Cob is a mixture of clay, sand and straw that
allows you to sculpt beautifully shaped homes like this one in
Oregon, USA. |
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Tiny cob house, England
Lisa and Rich built the house with clay from
the stream and roundwood Pine and Hawthorne thinned from the
local woodlands. |
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Cob house kitchen, USA
This is Ianto and Linda's kitchen in their cob
home in Oregon. They run the Cob Cottage Company and have
inspired many of the world's natural builders. |
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Cob roundhouse. USA
This is Ziggy and April's cob roundhouse at
Dancing Rabbit ecoVillage in Rutledge, Missouri, USA. |
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Cob cottage at Cae Mabon, Wales
The cottage was built in 2004 by 25 people, on and off, over
two weeks mixing cob early in the morning and then building
with it later in the day. |
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Cob house kitchen, England This is the interior of one
of the cob homes by Adam and Katy of Clay Works. Clay Works
are based in the UK and supply beautiful clay plasters. |
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Clay obos, Cameroon
These are clay catenary domes, called obos, of
the Musgum people in the Cameroon. They provide efficient
cooling in the baking heat. |
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Cob bathroom, USA
This is the bathroom at Laughing House, a
beautiful cob house in Oregon, USA with a wonderful mosaic. |
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Cob houses around the world
Cob, a mixture of clay, sand and straw, is a
sculptural building material that has been used to create
beautiful natural homes. |
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Cob house, Romania
This is one of the cob homes build by
architect and natural builder Ileana Mavrodin of Casa Verde in
Banat, Romania. |
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Rocket mass stove, Estonia
You can feed a rocket stove by placing a long log in the fire
box that sticks out the top while it burns at one end in the
fire box. |
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Cob oven, Portugal
The festival has won several awards for using natural building
and permaculture principals. |
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Mud and Stud House
Mud and stud is similar to 'wattle and daub'
but the mud is supported by vertical riven lathes nailed to
horizontal rails between the posts of an elm frame. |
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Cob house, England
This cob home is the work of Lisa and Rich who built it
with clay from the stream that runs just in front of this
amazing window. |
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Cob oven, Croatia
A double chamber cob oven gives a cleaner burn
than a standard cob oven. |
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