Meghan and Aaron Powers' 836-square foot cottage in Victor, Idaho, is noteworthy not just because it's a straw bale home, but because 90 percent of it is made from salvaged materials.
A Straw Bale Home
Natural Home: November/December 2008
The couple scavenged materials such as tiles and appliances from teardowns and landfills, and even bought a used silo to use as studio, workshop, and garage.
...and using a redwood column as both the exterior shower wall (a shower -- shown above -- that, incidentally, hides a deep sunken bathtub beneath a removable floor grate) and the home's centerpiece.
• Click here for Molly Loomis' article: A Straw Bale Home: Small, Secondhand & Spectacular - Natural Home
Images: Betsy Morrison
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What I would really like to see is a poll on AT of how many people get their fix from the main AT site. Does anyone look only at specific regions?
And depending on the results, could we then vote to STOP the multiple postings!!!!!! This was alredy posted on AT this week. Do AT editors not read AT?!!!
*Gets off soapbox and goes back to work.....
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REPOOOOOOOOST!
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Maxwell needs to hire bloggers who actually read AT...
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I never get specific unless i'm trying to find something from the past that was region specific.
I'm also continually annoyed by the weekly round-up. Half the time there is a cool picture that i haven't seen but none of the links seem to refer to it and clicking on it only re-opens the weekly round-up post.
That said sunken-tecture is my new obsession!
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I have a friend who lived in (and helped build) a straw bale home. When it burned down, boy did it ever burn down.
POOF.
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