Here’s a selection of cob building photos from the start to finish of building my house, assembled into a slideshow. Enjoy!
Building and living in my first cob house
About The Year of Mud
Hullo. I am Brian Liloia, but I am also called Ziggy. I'm a 26-year-old currently living at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. In April of 2008, I began building my own cob house, and on July 11, 2009, I moved into the finished home. Here I have documented the entire cob building process, and continue to share information about living in an earthen home, and now my latest project, a group kitchen. This is the Year of Mud. The experience continues.
Thanks for the slide show. That really helped me to understand the stages and also the construction methods. Not sure if I’ve got the amount of work involved though.
That’s a beautiful house too: it’s all very inspirational and makes me want to stop waiting and sign up for the permaculture course riaght away.
Is there a way of embedding the slideshow into my Wordpress blog? It’s mainly about alternative transport but I want to start looking at other areas where we want to live a different way.
Excellent resource, Ziggy! Thanks for making that available. I had been especially curious about what the foundation looked like before you built up an urbanite or cob. Now I know!
Marke: Good to hear from ya! Yea!
Andy: Absolutely! You can grab the HTML code here, in the upper right corner (’Share’): http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallape/sets/72157604714762643/show/
As always, all of the photos from the building process can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallape/sets/72157604714762643/
Thank you for posting this slideshow. I too like the more complete sequence than what you usually see. It is a beautiful home and very inspiring!
Did it really take you a whole year and how much time did you have to spend on making it?
cheers!