Now that the Earth house is all but completed, (just waiting on the last pieces of furniture to be made and the final painting and oiling completed), we are turning our attention to our next project, the half completed Cob Cottage. This structure is earth and wood construction, the earth part being made up of cob walls. The earth mix for the cob is similar to the mix for the adobe bricks, but is much dryer, and has much more straw in it.
We are wanting to get the walls up before it gets too cold, as we have to "stomp" the straw into the earth mix, and it can be a real test for the feet on a cold morning.
Deb and Fernando, our resident happy painters went a long way to getting the Earth House Gibraltar board walls painted with a natural Bio paint. We chose a off white colour, and it looks fantastic.
Jarred has made a fantastic toilet roll dispenser for the Earth House from Macrocarpa. We didn't want to put any more holes in our beautiful tiled walls than we needed to.
The doors all oiled and gorgeous, ready to be installed in the Cob Cottage.
Jarred and Harvey have also made some Macrocarpa shelving for my office and storeroom in our existing house. The smell of that timber now fills the house, and it is wonderful. Here Ali inspects the builders handy work before the shelves are moved into position.
We had a very timely reminder in the last weeks that Autumn is here, and Winter is definitely on the way! Poor Fernando and Deb needed to raid Ali's hat collection to keep the frost off their ears.
Even Jarred was trying to hide his gloves from Ali, 'cause we all know that real men don't wear gloves.
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