HOVLAND -- A half-mile down a dirt driveway through woods, a stack of straw bales signals one's arrival at Chris and Cameron Norman's new home. Approach the house, and the scattering of straw on the ...
PORT ANGELES — Michael and Spring Thomas want to demonstrate how strong a house built of straw can be. Straw bales, that is. Compressed and covered in plaster, straw bales stay dry, resist fire and ...
Would you ever live in a house made of straw? It might sound unusual, but this company in Missouri is proving that this ancient building technique is not only durable and efficient, but it is also a ...
Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the fight against climate change. Photo by Tim Davis and landscaping by ...
Emily Nyokka watched her mother, an artist, help build their circular house made of hay bales and stucco in southern Humboldt County when she was a child back in 1997. The home sits in an open space ...
When completed this spring, the 26,900-sf Friends Community School in Greenbelt, Md., will be one of the largest straw-bale structures in the world. The Building Team specified straw-bale construction ...
The story of our family’s straw bale home began in the mid-1970s, when my husband, Lytle Robinson, retired and wanted acreage to carry out his fantasy of “living off the land.” In keeping with that ...
PORT ANGELES — Michael and Spring Thomas want to demonstrate how strong a house built of straw can be. Straw bales, that is. Compressed and covered in plaster, straw bales stay dry, resist fire and ...
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