Hi everyone! I have gotten behind on this course due to my own most recent building project. Unfortunately, it is not a cob project (but, those will be on the way soon!!), but is a simple, totally off-grid pine Scandi-hut style cottage that I built with friends and family to set up for my office space for work to see clients and host classes. I would love to build something similar to this out of cob in the future on my property. I think that would be an amazing space, way better than the current pine space. In the future, as this building wears over time and the roof is no longer good, I plan to turn it into a live roof with moss or turf and to potentially add natural plasters to the internal walls. I love how much flexibility cob and natural finishes give us, even for traditional building projects!

What are your thoughts?

I realize that this is a finishing phase of the building process that few of you are actually able to apply currently but I thought you might it interesting. It’s nice to have wooden shutters because you can have the windows completely open during the day without a screen and then close them at night when the mosquitoes are active. The color you see on the outside is a Lime wash with a green iron oxide added and also a brown oxide on the inside. It is a clay paint made up of equal parts flour paste, very fine sand, clay and oxide for color. I also added a little bit of peppermint essential oil for a nice subtle fragrance and also to help keep insects out of the structure. We’ll see if it helps.

Just thought I’d share this little video with you all of how I make a round opening in a pallet wall. It’s easier to do it on the ground before being put up on the wall but it can be done in place as well. I’ll put either a nice round stain glass in the hole or plexiglass screwed to the outside

Hey y’all just thought I’d show you how I’m doing the benches here .