"The Hand-Sculpted House inspired me to learn and do more and transformed how I saw homes and building in general."-Mother Earth News
"If you follow it word for word you will build yourself a house no matter who you are."-Builder Paul Dillon, quoted in The Irish Times
Are you ready for the Cob Cottage?
This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as -an ecstatic house.-
The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest, most available materials imaginable-earth, clay, sand, straw, and water-and blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root, meaning -lump-) is a mixture of non-tox
