This is not your ancestors’ straw hut! Straw bale homes are the new wave in green home building. Why not? Straw is natural, highly renewable, energy efficient, mold & allergy resistant, fire retardant (bet you didn’t know that) and one of the healthiest choices you can make for the frame of your green home. The range of designs and architectural features is unlimited. Check out the Santa Barbara dream home host Kevin Contreras built out of straw – it’s Zen modern and green to the core.
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Very intriguing!
Very intriguing!
Could you please …
Could you please put out more videos on these subjects? We’re studying architecture in Norway and we can’t see buildinggreentv other than on youtube…
You take that stuff …
You take that stuff into account as you are working with the house. And a lower energy output is typically more important to those building these homes than a few extra feet of space.
those walls are …
those walls are like 2 feet thick. i hope that is part of the design and not the required thickness for using straw as Insy. otherwise your losing some major Sq. Ft’g
stfu
stfu
im building one …
im building one myself, they are great, and if you use passive solar placing a lot of windows on the south end, you will have a nice warm home in the winter without paying your local utility company $300 per month. hurry and get more videos up!