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Natural homes for less than 10K ... |
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These nine homes have all been built for less
than 10,000 GBP (about $15,000).
They are built using lime, straw, stone, roundwood, clay, reed
and turf. Below you can read about each of
these homes and follow links to more information.
You will find some of the following buttons above each of their
pictures:
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Link to an
article on Natural Homes |
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Link to the
picture in Facebook |
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Link to the
picture in Google+ |
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Link to the
owner's website |
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Link to the
owner's
Facebook page or profile |
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Cassie and Nigel built their straw bale roundhouse in Lammas
ecoVillage in Pembrokeshire, Wales for £9,000 ($14,000). Like many
roundhouses it has a
reciprocal roof. All of the clay and timber for their home
came from their land and the community woodland. The straw bales
from a local farm.
Together at their small holding called
Plas Helyg
(Welsh for 'Willow
Place') they teach others how to
build beautiful, natural, warm and healthy inexpensive homes.
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This is the beautiful work of Bjarne Wickstrom
in Gislev, Denmark. Bjarne is a natural builder who
specialises in rorvøv, an interwoven reed lath. This
beautiful little 10m2 (107sq.ft.) house was built for his son Mikkel.
All in all the tiny
home cost about 3,500 Krone
($500).not including the hours invested building which were
a few hours a
day
during weekends and
holidays and a workshop which lasted 7
days. Bjarne estimates
the total effort was about 50 man-days
(400 working hours).
He says that with the help of
family and friends it
is possible for
most
people to build a tiny house like this
without craftsman,
training or experience.
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This wonderful tiny cob home was built by apprentices of the SunDog
School of Natural Building under the watchful eye of
Kirk (above) in Northern California, USA.
The cottage is heated by a rocket stove that winds its heat
under the floor before leaving through the chimney. The
material costs for the tiny home were just under $1,000. Here
are the main
stages in the build.
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Less than $5,000 in Poland |
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Joanna's green spruce
log house originally came from the
mountains of southern Poland where it was built in 1927. Sadly
many of these mountain homes are unloved. Joanna bought the house for 5,500Zl ($1,500)
and paid 10,000zl ($2,700) to have it moved and re-built in Nowe Kawkowo.
She used moss and clay between the logs to make it airtight.
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£3,000 in Wales |
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This was Simon's first home built with his father-in-law, friends
and passers-by. It's a straw bale house with a reciprocal green
roof only costing about £3,000. Simon estimates that the
home took about 1,250 hours to build. The home was a learning experience
for the family who now live in a larger home built for only £6,000
in Lammas ecoVillage.
Simon has written about his homes and
experience in a book called 'Wild
by Design'. |
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This
quaint cob cottage in Deddington, England
cost almost nothing to build, just £150 ($250) for the
thatching pins.
It was built by Michael Buck
almost exclusively from materials from his farm. The clay for
the cob came from the site and the long straw for the thatch
came from nearby fields. Poplars were planted by Michael eight
years before they were felled and used for the joists.
Michael says, "I believe
in the idea of houses not costing much. A house does not have to
cost the earth; you only need earth to build it." |
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Ianto Evans (above) pioneered cob building in the USA. Through Cob
Cottage Company he trains people from all over the world who come
to learn from his decades of natural building experience. Ianto is
the author (with others) of 'The Hand Sculpted House' (far right).
This
is one of the tiny cob cottages at his home in Oregon, USA. He
teaches people how to build homes (larger than this one right) for
less than $5,000. |
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This little straw bale house is now 10 years old. It sits in
beautiful countryside near Lake Hancza, the deepest (108,5 m) lake in Poland.
It's a place the Polish city folk call a "small paradise" a
place of gentle hills and forests filled with wild
strawberries, blueberries and mushrooms.
The straw bale cottage was built by Paulina (above) of
Earth
Hands and Houses. To build a tiny home like this in Poland would cost
about £10,000 (15,000 USD) in materials but at the time it cost
Paulina £5,000. |
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This 7m diameter €3,500 French roundhouse
stands on a rubble trench. A ring of debarked douglas fir roundwood stands on stone pads that rest on the trench. The
ring of timbers supports a reciprocal roof surrounded by straw bale walls plastered with
lime.
The
straw bale roundhouse was built by Matthew (above)
who will be
building another just like it in Cornwall, UK this September 2015. Details of the workshop are
available
here. |
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