Edwards Cob Building/ Facebook Kate Edwards and Charlotte Eve have spent over a decade teaching people that having a mud house is actually a pretty cool way of life and could save you a whopping ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Houses are built of hundreds of materials, natural and artificial. Mud must surely be the most basic of them all.

And when it comes to building codes, going green is one thing — building a house out of mud is another. However, times are starting to change. A few years ago, cob houses were added to the ...

Learn modern cob house building for a mortgage-free home ... Some people predicted Florida’s humid air and torrential rains would melt her “mud hut” back into the ground.

They saw their first cob house as practice for the new space they ... 30 to 50% clay — and you mix with water until it's a good mud-like consistency before you add straw," Ray said.

Her six-bedroom farmhouse near Crediton in Devon is built from cob, a mud-based mix first used for construction in north Africa in the 11th century. Some 300 years later it had become the standard ...

It certainly gives off ‘Peter Rabbit’ vibes. Technically, the house isn’t made out of mud, exactly, but cob – which is a mixture of clay, sand, straw and water. Making houses out of cob ...

A house made from straw, water, mud and hemp - said to be the first of its kind in the UK - has gone on sale for £600,000. Known as the Cob House, construction of the three-bedroom property in ...

The first modern British home using straw and mud has been built as part of a project to construct more energy-efficient homes. The UK's first domestic CobBauge building was built by local ...