PORT ANGELES — Michael and Spring Thomas want to demonstrate how strong a house built of straw can be. Straw bales, that is. Compressed and covered in plaster, straw bales stay dry, resist fire and ...

A San Diego-based company is using old school materials like straw bales and clay to build homes that are more fire-resistant for Southern California residents who worry about wildfires season after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the ...

The Straw Bale in the City 3-part series walks readers through the codes, costs, and construction of a straw-bale build on a non-rural property. Part 1 covers issues with building codes and managing ...

Straw bale building offers an affordable, sustainable solution to materials like concrete. Sigi Koko of Down to Earth Design demonstrated straw bale building will work even in wet climates with the ...

Minnesota's first code-approved straw-bale house is super energy-efficient – and wolf-proof. When their friends heard they were building a straw-bale house, Ken and Laura Geisen were peppered with ...

Kevin Edwards grew interested during high school in designing homes that minimized reliance on oil Edwards and wife Stacy bought a lot with no municipal water, no sewer, and a dirt access road After ...

Maddison follows the adventures of ambitious families pursuing architectural dreams. Across 12 months — and sometimes longer — he charts the in-depth, sometimes catastrophic and always serendipitous ...

When Jens Hansen was a high school sophomore, his father purchased a modest home on a five-acre colony lot by Atascadero Lake and moved the family from Oregon. Today, when Jens wants to see the home ...

PORT ANGELES — Michael and Spring Thomas want to demonstrate how strong a house built of straw can be. Straw bales, that is. Compressed and covered in plaster, straw bales stay dry, resist fire and ...