My friend Neerav has asked me recently to write an article for one of his blogs about our strawbale house. I was deeply flattered by his request as Neerav is one of Australia's top bloggers and I consider myself as an amateur blogger, having only just started.
Neerav has since …
Rosalba and I have purchased a number of books recently covering sustainable homes to look for inspirations on what we would like in our future home. Most of these books we purchased from "The Good Life Book Club" that, I think, is run by Earth Garden.
The "Natural Home Builder …
Some of you may be wondering why Rosalba and I are wanting to build our new home with straw bales. Following are my reasons:
Straw is a renewable resource that is mostly burned after harvesting. This releases huge amounts of green house gases that don't need to be released. If …
Rosalba has found an article on the Earth Garden website showing different ways of creating footings for buildings. One method that has caught our eye is using recycled car tyres. Considering that there are millions of tyres each year that need to be disposed of, this may help a little …
Rosalba and I have met with Andrew form W D Architects yesterday afternoon.
Andrew was great and listened to all our dreams and wishes for our house and gave some great feedback on some of our ideas. For example we though we'd build the house using a steel frame but …