The Straw Bale House
Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 1994. Real Goods Independent Living Book.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 10 inches tall; 297 pages with illustrations from photographs and drawings bibliography and index.
"Using plastered straw bales as building materials for a home may not sound stable or long-lasting, but these can be used for a variety of purposes from adjacent buildings to entire houses, can be used with relatively little experience, and have many attributes; from super-insulation to cheap construction. Applications are more useful for the Southwest region but ideas may transfer to other U. S. locales."--Midwest Book Review
Beside being cheap, clean, and lightweight, straw also provides advantages like energy efficiency and resistance to seismic stresses. For the nervous Martha Stewart types, there are scads of black-and-white and color plates of strikingly beautiful interiors and exteriors from New Mexico to southern France.
Both new and experienced builders will appreciate the clear, simple instructions and diagrams, as well as practical explanations for dealing with building codes and insurers. The Straw Bale House shows us advantages so numerous and dramatic that you'll wonder why we ever moved on to sticks and bricks. --Rob Lightner
Item #17176
ISBN: 0930031717
Price: $21.95
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