Straw-bale house construction timeline

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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September 17th, 2009

Peter Maltzan is building a passive solar straw-bale house, and has been at it since October of 2008. He’s done a great job of documenting the construction process, which is now nearly complete, in photographs. Highly recommended if you want to get a feel for how it all goes together. Thanks to MAKE subscriber Pete Marchetto for suggesting the link.

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Straw-bale house construction timeline

By Sean Michael Ragan