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Tiny Earthen Home at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
These natural homes of adobe are the oldest permanent structures on the continent that have been continuous lived in all this time, nearly a millennium.” – ilovecob.com
See more Old Bricks of Cob, New Mexico.
300 Square Foot Cob House Cost £150 to Build – Owner Builder Used Mostly Reclaimed Materials
Michael Buck built this house at the bottom of his garden for just £150 using natural or unwanted materials he found in skips.” – Mail Online
Read more about a Farmer builds a house for just £150 using materials he found in skips…
Mother Earth News Explains Cob Building Basics
Cob building gets its name from the Old English term for “lump,” which refers to the lumps of clay-rich soil that were mixed with straw and then stomped into place to create monolithic earthen walls.” – Mother Earth News
Read about Cob Building Basics: DIY House of Earth and Straw
Cob Building Workshop in Kentucky this September
September 5-7, 2014 for a 3 day workshop to learn cob building essentials — we’ll be building a sheltered outdoor bench from the ground up, and an interior wall full of artistic touches in a newly built straw bale home.” – Ziggy
Learn more about this workshop…
Would You Consider an Earthen Floor?
In June, I finished installing the earthen floor in my cob house. In October, I built the base layer of the earthen floor, a 2.5″ thick mix of sand, clay, and straw. It dried over fall and winter (very slooowly), and once I finished plastering my walls, I moved onto completing the floor this spring.” – Ziggy
Cob Home with a Living Roof
A cob home will have a very distinct and unique quality to it that you will not find among conventional homes. Living in a cob house is more than just abiding in a shelter. It includes a unique experience that is both uplifting and healthy.” – This Cob House
How To Decide Between Strawbale and Cob
If you’ve been drooling over earthen house pictures for any length of time then you’re probably torn. Which building method should you actually use?
- Cob is so beautiful. So sensual. The smooth curvaceous walls just make you want to rub your hands all over them.
- Straw bales are so sensible. They’re relatively fast to build and incredibly warm.
I used to change my mind daily from cob to strawbale and back again. After building henry the cob studio, I was madly in love and I didn’t want to miss out on that in our main house. But strawbales appealed to my logical man mind…” – Tom
Can They Do It? Can a Cob House be Built in One Day!?
This will be one of the most spectacular natural building events in recent history. The cottage will be about 150 square feet, and built with cob, bales, cordwood-cob and salvaged wood. It will be finished with a straw-clay plaster and tamped earthen floor.” – House Alive!
Read more about the One Day Cob House workshop.
Photo above from a past House Alive! workshop. Photo below is the Jelly Bean, a micro cob house.
Michael Buck’s $250 Cob Cottage
With the rising cost of living many people are seeking alternatives to offset the costs while also maintaining quality of life. One method of saving money is to build your own home. Michael Buck, a retired art teacher turned farmer, has built his own home using natural materials to create a quaint country cottage.The cottage is built from mostly cob, a material that’s made of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth.” – Niall