The work party was a huge success! We got probably half the remaining bales carved and placed and at least 2 folks got their first experience using a chainsaw. Y’all are amazing!
Next work party is August 15 – 17, can’t wait to see you there!
We had another fantastic work party! It was a mad scramble the week before as we watched the rain in the forecast go up and up and up! AC got the house all nicely tarped up and we got all the remaining bales moved into the house where they could stay safe and dry. We…
So when we first started looking at house designs we had planned to do a ‘slab on grade’ foundation. Meaning a simple slab of concrete that we set our house on top of. The frost depth isn’t super deep here so these can often work great. Plus a slab foundation means we could ‘easily’ add…
So most of you probably know that a couple years back (ok, way back in 2019) we took a straw bale house building workshop. While there we, along with about 30 awesome folks, helped build a strawbale house in Kingston, WA. It was incredibly fun and we learned so much. It also convinced us that…
The first week of August my lovely family showed up in force for a work party weekend. It was so fun having the place swarming with helpers. We even put the kids to work! (Please note, on all these posts the fantastic photos are almost always taken by someone else!) Folks got a TON of…
Hoooo Boy that was a heck of a week! We had 46 workshop attendees, 3 instructors and myriad friends and family helping support us and it was a huge success! Everyone who came out worked so hard and was incredibly kind and considerate of both each-other and our new home. AC was in the mix…
Ok, This post is hilariously late in coming, but before I post all the pics of our family work party I wanted a post for all the work Adam and AC put in on the subfloor during so many hot HOT days! AC’s whole fantastic family also joined in the sweaty fun 🙂 Seeing as…