Building on a Budget – Tips to Minimizing Construction Costs of a Straw Bale House
When building a custom home, it’s important to know you can actually afford to build what you design. These tips will help you hit your target and build the straw
When building a custom home, it’s important to know you can actually afford to build what you design. These tips will help you hit your target and build the straw
Celebrating community connections and bale building over the last 12 months and sneak peeks for the magic of the 2024 workshop season coming your way soon!
We are often asked how many bales will be needed for someone’s straw bale house. It is a number we need to know the answer to on all of our
Keep these simple bullet points in mind when looking for building permit approvals for your straw bale house.
We have recently added a bunch of construction drawings of straw bale houses (full sets of plans) to our website bringing the total to thirty sets. We have several different
Bale type, which size is best, how to handle moisture content, and what are the ideal straw bales for home construction; are all common questions we hear at every workshop.
Celebrating new chapters, community, and, of course, straw bale building! Meet the caretakers of the strawbale.com community.
I met Paul and Sara in 2015, long before they moved into their very own Applegate Cottage, at my seven-day, hands-on workshop in La Grande, Oregon and was immediately struck
If you’re looking for an engineer in New York State to help with your straw bale build, please read on. Touson Saryon, the architect of the most popular home designs
Having built hundreds of straw bale houses over the years, I’ve learned that bale stops do an incredible job of both strengthening and simplifying a build. I use them in
Mistakes are often made in contracting when reading plans. Make sure you know your plans properly and know how to read them to catch any potential mistakes.
It may sound obvious, but learning how to build a house, of any kind but especially a straw bale house, is a good thing to do before you actually start
As a follow up to previous announcements by Arkin Tilt Architects (ATA) that they intend to offer a selection of their plans for free to California wildfire victims, I am
I spoke with David Arkin about the incredibly generous and caring offer that he and is wife Anni Tilt are making for those people who lost their homes in the
In general, detailing a timber frame straw bale home is very much like that of a regular post an dream straw bale home; however, the differences are important to discuss.
When people talk about the cost of straw bale construction, they often get things a bit muddled up. They either come in way too low or way too high. Let’s
When is a straw bale house not green? A straw bale house isn’t green because the wall system is only one part of a bigger system, and a small part
It was immediately obvious while working on the exposed timber frame in Arlington, Vermont that the natural cut timbers would not line up perfectly with the plane of the bale
This was truly one of the most fun workshops I have had in years. The building will be used as woodworking shop, home brew facility, pottery studio and forge. It
For me, the extra work of compressing your straw bale walls is more than worth it and the quality of the overall job you will get as a result of
I know that the topic of metal in straw bale wall assemblies is a contentious one, and that is why I want to bring it up and talk about it
There is no question that the more elaborate your design, the more expensive it will be to build! BUT there are ways to find that balance to please both your
For those of you who have been curious what it will take to help straw bale homes become more mainstream, this may be a part of the answer. David Arkin
Planning to build your straw bale house with angular walls, instead of using common right angle intersections? This post will give you a simple, fast, and effective way to build
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