You can see that the rear (North) straw bale wall has been built—it has a base coat of lime plaster inside and out—and that its window as well as the windows of the round dining alcove are framed in. The East adobe wall (behind the alcove) was also built and the windows framed, and the West cob-adobe wall (left side) has been built to just below the second floor. THAT MEANS…we’re going to build up the rest of the walls using adobe bricks, cob and (on the loft floor) clay-straw (which is cut straw soaked with clay slip and a good method for walls that need to be insulated).
This sketch shows how the doors and windows on the front (South) cob wall have been planned.
Won’t she be darling!
Here are some views of the walls described above:
West cob wall with the partially built niche
Built-in cob bench in the dining alcove.
Mollie on the shed roof over the rear walkway.
The bales hadn’t been plastered yet
Owner-builder Arjuna in the rear walkway
The bales have now been plastered.
Looking into the alcovefrom the living room
The west wall showing the oversized window holding
the space for a doorway into a future addition
Arjuna da Silva:
~ 828-669-0114
1041 Camp Elliott Rd., Black Mountan, North Carolina, USA 28711
