From Green Source Magazine comes this story of a beautiful Straw-bale house in California. I have always been attracted to alternative building methods. After graduating from college in 1991, still establishing myself in the world, and not really having a lot of money, I started investigating inexpensive building methods in-which I could build myself a home. Living in rural upstate NY, land was plentiful and affordable, so building was much more attractive then buying a preexisting house. Plus I wanted something unusual and modern, not an easy thing to find in Central New York. I researched cob building, cord wood houses and straw-bale building. At that time it was virtually an unheard of as a building method in town, and not knowing what code barriers I was going to encounter, I changed direction and purchased a 100-year-old school-house, which I’ll blog about in a future post.
So now almost 20 years later, I am in awe of the beauty, quality and common place straw-bale houses have become. I guess I still have a soft spot in my heart for them :)
