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Best of this year in natural building

share photos of old, abandoned, uninhabited structures in your part of the world!

Lead Paint on the ceiling of a Kitchen with a Wood Cook Stove

Most cost effective small building technique

Stairs and ladders inspiration

Very thin insulation and flooring?

Full Time Yurt Living In Mediterranean Climate

Cob-Coated Plastic Water Storage Tank?

Flooring options

Where do fire and pest resistance fit in?

Can drystacked block have a seat at this table?

Help figuring out terrain type with jar test

How would you build a bathroom?

Root Cellar Needed (fishing for ideas)

Clean Up Time in Jamaica

Adobe, cob, etc. -- in engineered panels?

Underground dwellings and ventilation

Crushed glass instead of sand

Mono stringer stairs using the woods around me

Critique my plan

sizing a DIY outdoor fire suppression system

Hybrid systems/understanding the placement of mass in a system

Lightweight, solo building

Chilli powder in mud bricks to discourage ants

Small DIY backyard sauna - collecting tips and ideas

Advice for building a cob structure for first time builder

Shipping container home covered with cobb/ earthen walls

Building a roundwood/cob hybrid home in Texas – roof beam collapse & lessons learned

Rubble Trench foundation

Cypress tree removal possible usage ideas

Has anyone here fitted their own windows?

How did mideval R-10 log cabins survive winters that would crush modern R-25 homes?

Ideas for a natural building materials for a first floor floor, and roof

My home

Exterior/Interior walls re-plastering for my 100 years old Village Home In Gujarat, India

Repurposed Thorny Olive Arbor

Buried houses ?

Our Mud Brick House is completed. 41 degree cel outside and 31 degree inside. That was worth it!

HUGE Food Drying Rack or Dehydrator Above the Wood Cook Stove

Shou Sugi Ban boards for raised garden beds--how well would they work?

Storing lumber at an off grid site

Brick and clay fireplace.

Roof Rennovation for my 100 years old Village Home In Gujarat, India

How do I get a compacted earth block machine?

Clay rendering on exterior walls, what mix is best?

Rubble Trench Mistake...

Rain overflow feature?

Does anyone want help with building something?

I can't make mojitos with THAT! Less rum, more calcium; or, Understanding the lime cycle

Living Sedum Roof

Stem Walls and Frames

Build as you go house in Australia

Meskwaki cattail mat sewing

Old German Way of Weatherproofing a Wall

A House Built of Bottles

lime plaster

Wood shavings & Lime Insulation - Help

Making adobe or mudbricks

Is house wrap needed when using exterior insulation and a different rainscreen?

Clay plastering a clay block (Porotherm)

Ideal Natural Building Style for US Southeast / Piedmont Mid-Atlantic? And some bonus ideas

Top Forums

digital market

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skip

growies

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wilderness

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permies.com

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