Natural Building Styles and Techniques around the World,
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This is a collection of shortcuts to pictures of
natural 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
Pinterest user, add the picture to your collections in Pinterest. When you visit the page you may also see
some of the
following icons:
You'll find an explanation for each on the
about
pages. If you would like to learn how to build homes like
these we have a list of
Natural Building Workshops. If you would like to read in more
detail about some of the natural homes and natural builders then
we have a growing collection of articles about
Natural Building. Select 'styles' from the menu above for
different styles of natural buildings like
straw bale and
cob homes. |
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Settlers cabin in Kitchener, Canada
The natural plaster work over the wooden laths
inside the cabin was done beautifully and in keeping with all
natural homes by Ben at The Lime Plaster Co. |
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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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Straw bale house, Wales
This is Simon Dale's new home in Lammas
ecoVillage. It cost about $6,000 to build, maybe a bit less. |
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Straw bale
house, Canada
Chris built the straw bale house in 2004 using
earthen plasters and all local materials. It's an off-grid
home without a straight wall in the house. |
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Natural Bathroom, Czech
Max has used natural clay, roundwood, stone
and mosaics to bring a stunning mixture of textures, patterns,
colour, warmth and light into the room. |
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Women Natural Builders
These are women building the Earth Sanctuary,
part of Kleiwerks which helps women to learn natural building
skills to build sustainable communities. |
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Lime Sgraffito Tile
Raquel Rodriguez uses clay tiles as a base to
which she adds lime putty mixed with sand to form a base coat
which dries for 5 days. |
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Oak frame house, Devon
This beautiful home in Devon, England called
Seagull House, was traditionally framed in oak. It was
converted from a barn. |
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Straw bale roundhouse, USA
The clay plastering and earthen floor was done
by Anna Wolfson and the thatched roof is by William Cahill. |
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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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Cave homes, Tunisia
The homes are grouped around a central courtyard and
connected to other courtyards with more rooms forming an
underground maze. |
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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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Dry stone wall, Canada
This wobbly wall is winding its way across Ontario, Canada.
It was built by Dean McLellan with John Rimmington near Coburg
Ontario. |
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Straw bale house, Italy
This was the first straw bale house built in
Italy. It's a timber frame infill with clay plasters on the
inside and lime plaster on the exterior and earthen floors. |
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Straw bale house, Denmark
Poula-Line built her straw bale home in Fri &
Fro (Free and Happy) ecoVillage in Egebjerg, Denmark. |
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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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Straw bale house, Wales
Rachel built this beautiful straw bale home
almost exclusively with women. It stands on a hill up a narrow
path above the 12th century St Dogmaels Abbey in Wales. |
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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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Straw bale barn, England
It's a two storey load bearing straw bale
barn. The ground and first floor are for bird-watching and the
roof space for barn owls. |
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Sami turf house, Sweden
This is a traditional summer turf home for the
Sami people of the northern Scandinavian countries. |
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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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Thatched roundhouse, Wales
This stone walled thatched roundhouse is the
storytelling room and centrepiece at Cae Mabon which was
created over the last twenty. |
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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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Timber grist mill, USA
At the turn of the 20th century more than 500
grist mills were in operation in West Virginia, USA. |
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Nenet Choom, Russia
The choom, home to the nomadic Nenet, uses
reindeer hides wrapped around wooden poles. |
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Straw bale house, USA
The straw bale home has a phragmite reed
thatched roof, earthen plasters with natural paints and uses
solar electricity. |
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