A Montana couple who built a home from clay and straw brings to mind “The Three Little Pigs” fairytale. But Daniel and Katherine Ray, the ambitious and frugal home builders, are not interested in ...

Sage Stoneman’s home only cost $200 to build and allows him to live debt-free. How is this possible? He built his house out of natural materials like cob. Cob, a mixture of clay, straw, and sand, has ...

Imagine it: a house that’s your own, no banker breathing down your throat, constructed not with cold steel or expensive timber but with the very earth itself straw, sand, and clay, shaped by your own ...

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Probably. But be prepared to make the city planners your new best friends. Steve Pfeiffer, engineering and technical codes manager for Seattle's Department of Planning and Development, said cob falls ...