I feel itchy just looking at this.
Also the spiders. Also the mold.
I saw on FB that a friend of mine built and lives in one of these and I didn’t have the heart to bring up Goldilocks or Trogdor the Burninator.
Straw homes are the way of the future, says every alternative construction and energy believer ever. Along with cobb, tires, and whatever else.
They’ve been around forever. They’re really only suitable for certain environments. They don’t last as long as regular construction. They are good at what they do while they do it, though. I wouldn’t have a problem living in one.
Bale and daube or adobe houses are really nice though.
They feel really different to live in. Some much more temperature stable.
Funny (if unoriginal) take. But in reality, properly compressed straw bales turn out to be a really good building material.
I helped buildting a straw bale house like 20 years ago. They were not specially compressed or anything, but they are length wise
My family live in a straw bale house we built in 2002.
Don’t they, like, smoke a lot?
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