Winner of the Best Safari House in Africa 2014, Leobo Lodge in the Waterberg is a new adobe-style marvel by Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens that is redefining the fatigued bush lodge aesthetic, one extraordinary feature at a time.
Learn how to install your own beautiful, natural and affordable earthen floors, with our specialist Sigi Koko on hand to offer advice.
Earthen floors, also known as cob floors, earth floors, rammed earth floors, or clay floors, are a fantastic eco friendly flooring system. For full information please see www.earthfloors.co.uk What are Earthen Floors? An earthen floor consists of a combination of clay, sand and fibre. You can usually use a local soil to provide at least...
Earthen floors, also known as cob floors, earth floors, rammed earth floors, or clay floors, are a fantastic eco friendly flooring system. For full information please see www.earthfloors.co.uk What are Earthen Floors? An earthen floor consists of a combination of clay, sand and fibre. You can usually use a local soil to provide at least...
This week, I traveled to eastern Pennsylvania to work with Gabe Franklin of The Art of Plaster to install a large earthen floor in a straw bale home. We’ve been in...
Learn how to install your own beautiful, natural and affordable earthen floors, with our specialist Sigi Koko on hand to offer advice.
This week, I traveled to eastern Pennsylvania to work with Gabe Franklin of The Art of Plaster to install a large earthen floor in a straw bale home. We’ve been in...
Floors made of Dirt? Yeah, people are taking back an old recipe for their floors…it’s cool in the summer, it holds the heat in the winter, it’s durable cheap and it’s not to…
My first step onto an earthen floor (sometimes called a ‘poured adobe’ floor) awakened me.
Greg has spent another week or so working on the cob house, and this week I have been in awe of just how fast he is! It really is incredible. Greg tiled the countertop around the sink, and finishe…
Although I can’t imagine actually living in a house like this, I do believe that it has to be the most unique home I have ever seen.
This week, I traveled to eastern Pennsylvania to work with Gabe Franklin of The Art of Plaster to install a large earthen floor in a straw bale home. We’ve been in...
Earth floors, also known as adobe floors, are made of sand, clay, and straw, bound together with linseed oil. In essence it’s a kind of ‘earth linoleum’, since early linoleum was …
Earthen floors, also known as cob floors, earth floors, rammed earth floors, or clay floors, are a fantastic eco friendly flooring system. For full information please see www.earthfloors.co.uk What are Earthen Floors? An earthen floor consists of a combination of clay, sand and fibre. You can usually use a local soil to provide at least...
Custom diagrams and article created by Jahrun Chilam Balam 2010.04.17-19 Over the last several years I have been contemplating a lif...
This week, I traveled to eastern Pennsylvania to work with Gabe Franklin of The Art of Plaster to install a large earthen floor in a straw bale home. We’ve been in...
Although I can’t imagine actually living in a house like this, I do believe that it has to be the most unique home I have ever seen.
The last major job outstanding on the cob bathroom is now complete. The floor. It's been a slow process, finishing it off between major renovation works on the other two buildings, but slow progress is still progress. The floor started off as the bare earth within the foundations. We
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Japanese architect Makoto Tanijiri from Suppose Office built Takaya House, a home that boasts natural earthen floors!
The 1950s in Japan were a time of rediscovery and renewal in art, graphics, furniture, photography, ceramics, woodblock prints, cinema, literature, textile design, and architecture. Kazuo Shinohara…
Seems crazy, right? A dirt floor, of all things! Well, time for a perception shift... Adobe floors are lusciously beautiful and quite ...
