The Ideal (eco) Homes Show
June 2008
Sitting by a pond with a swan yesterday I couldn't help but think 'I could live here, very happily. Just a field, some wildlife, and me'. And I remembered reading online an article about a university student living in a mud hut on a farm. Browsing the web quickly it seems the term 'mud hut' is only associated with poverty in other continents. But I can think of few better lifestyles than truly being a part of nature, with the living things that permit us life. Of course you may have to live without most modern 'conveniences'. And that includes broadband, which explains why i'm not finding any useful pages!...
...At last!
My mud house
'24-year-old Kate is doing a degree in Anthropology and Development Studies in South Wales. For the past two years she's been living in a 'mud' house made from straw and horse manure in one of the fields of an organic farm where she works part time. Here she explains why she loves her lifestyle.'
Dirt-cheap homes a solution
A Welsh stonemason has shunned the typical bricks and mortar of most modern Welsh homes to create a house of mud. Steve Wilson, is updating an ancient method to build innovative modern housing in West Wales. Read more here...
Eco-heaven: a £500,000 mud house
They may be made of mud, old tyres and tin cans but Britain’s first self-sustaining eco-houses could set back new owners as much as £500,000 for three bedrooms. Read more here...
Mud house
The Festival of Xtreme Building, in partnership with Ramboll Whitbybird and Associated Architects are building a mud house that is not only habitable but also has a zero-carbon footprint, for under £300 – predominantly from soil. Read more here...
Mud cottage
Some cottages in Ceredigion and north Pembrokeshire were built with mud or clay walls. The walls had to be very thick to provide stability, but they were also warm. They were protected from being washed away by painting them frequently with whitewash. Read more here...
And the winner is...
Kate's Mud House. Practical, lived in, and captures the imagination. Love it!
A few interesting photo's I found on the web:
A Native American grass hut. By Pam Roth.
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