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The Affordable Natural House under construction -- photo on 5 Mar 2005
This Winter, almost all of the work is proceeding indoors -- a closet cabinet made of non-toxic particle board manufactured from wheat stalks; re-used doors for the rooms; wall and floor mosaics in the bathroom made from surplus tile. However, with a single day of record-setting warm weather in January, it was possible to apply trim paint and wood stain to the front of the house. The recycled porous paving blocks used for the driveway are barely visible under the snow as the waffle-like pattern in the extreme lower right of the photo. This Spring we intend to spread the topsoil in the paving blocks and front yard.
| Click to view the documentary video about the Affordable Natural House! | NEW! Click to view the Six-Minute Straw-Clay House video to see how it's done! |
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This project uses many of the techniques which are described in our chapter in the new book Alternative Construction - Contemporary Natural Building Methods Edited by Lynn Elizabeth & Cassandra Adams (John Wiley & Sons, publishers) Also, check out our "thoughts on sustainable construction...." click here for more on our ecologically designed projects... and click here for our short-list of directories for 'green' materials . |
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State of New Mexico's Straw-Clay GuidelinesAvailable for viewing or downloading (PDF) |
