A small look to the tiny cabin

Hello to all,
Here is my first contribution to permies forum. I have been thinking on sharing my progress mainly to get some more tips and insightfull information on the cronstruction.

This is my first cabin, i have learned alot with all the mistakes and managed to get alot of knowledge in earth construction.

It is a straw bale house  Nebraska style with metal roof, solar panel and  grid water for now.  
It is still underconstruction as I made some additions in the past year. It started has a house with kitchen living room and loft.
Now i am making the entrance and toilet.

Entrance has half stone wall and wood structure, some  woods were chainsaw milled from the land (oak mainly for posts and some beams, it is very hard to work with !).
The walls i made with light straw and will plaster with lime.

I will share some pictures of it in the attachments

Welcome to permies, Caracol!

That cabin is cute as can be.

Not sure what sort of ideas you're looking for, but I am always concerned (thanks to a building the former owners of our property built), when I see a roof draining up-slope of the house. One common solution is eves-trough, leading to a large rain barrel at the back corner. On one of my buildings, I dug a shallow trench leading to a swale that allowed the rain to soak in, unless there was so much rain that it overflowed downslope (rare).

It would help to know what your climate is.

Thanks for the comment Jay!
Maybe you can't see very good in the last picture there is, at the end of the roof, the eves-trough/ gutters instaled.
They are leading to a small water container. my intention is to make a bigger water deposit, as we need it here for the summer to water our plants. I already have a 2 meters deep whole and i want to make it with cement bricks and some rebar reinforcement.. Still have to think about that!
I live in a fairly dry and hot climate.

I also made the extension building in light straw, with quite of a small over hang.  I am thinking on putting some terracota tiles in the half part of the wall, to prevent from driven rain.  I dont know if it is needed if it will be lime plastered..

what a lovely home!
It looks comfortable and well built.
and the rockwall/terrace is wonderful.

Congratulations on your successful 'learning experience' 😊

welcome to the forums!

That looks good.
Plenty of opportunities to learn on that project.
Underground tanks are hard to get right, could you live with a big above ground tank?
5000 litres.
Did you say you are on a townwater supply.
Where are you building?