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| Cob bench in the garden in front of their house. I'd guess it's been there five or six years, and is weathering beautifully. The creek is barely visible through the plants on the right side of the picture. |
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| How 'bout that thatch? This demo is just a few bales with a thatched hat. Look at the bales - golden. This has been sitting out like this for about three years. The thatch is local "bear grass." |
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| This is a temporarily-disregarded shower project. Blue wall, yikes! That's a lime finish with laundry blueing in it... savage. (The blue up on the roof is a tarp. Like I said, it ain't a finished thing.) Bill emailed me after I posted this page: "My poor bath house is not 'disregarded.' We've faithfully and slowly amidst other projects been peeling 20 lodgepole pine poles to finish the roof this month. The front wall will be finished in a cob workshop we are doing for Joelee [Joyce, of Designing Alliances With Nature] in the first part of November [1999]. Just put a slick new tan latex covered tarp over it today to hold it for another month. It is really quite loved and appreciated. Poor thing, you were a little too hard on it." |
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| This bike shed should fall right over. Look at it! Bales on edge (strings-out, the thin way), no shear walls, earth plaster... nothin' is keeping it standing. Lean on this sucker and you're in for a surprise - it ain't going anywhere. What's the secret? Exterior pinning. Check it out. |
