Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cob house with stones and decorations - leonardo/Shutterstock From earthships to container homes, sustainable architecture only ...

If you imagine an adult sandcastle, think again. Cob is exceptionally durable if built with proper shelter from the rain. Put simply, if you have a good roof, it will protect your walls. Over time, as ...

Baking in the warmth of California’s Cumaya Valley stand three small structures made of an ancient building material: cob. The material is a mixture of clay-heavy soil, straw, sand and water that — ...

“What would it take to raise a cob house in one day?” That was the question Coenraad Rogmans (of House Alive!) and I asked ourselves one sunny morning in September of 2013. We were at his place in ...

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Most of the rock used for the foundation, and the clay for the cob (clay and straw) walls and pizza oven were collected on-site. For years, I dreamed of building my own home using natural materials.

VICTOR, Mont. — A couple in Victor is living a lifestyle created by their own hands, and now they’re teaching others how to do it themselves. Their home is on the grid, gets its water from a well and ...

A COUPLE were sick and tired of blowing through their cash that they gave up their boring jobs and built a new home completely out of mud – and are now convincing others to join them. This new way of ...

There was a time when cob – a mix of straw, soil and water – was one of the most common building materials in the Westcountry. But these days, very few people have the knowledge and the skills to ...

GREENWICH — Ask anyone from Cos Cob what’s going on in the neighborhood lately and new housing construction will probably be mentioned near top of the list. After a mini-building boom in recent years, ...