Wattle and daub house

These days, you spend your life paying off a house, and even building a shed or animal shelter can be expensive...For thousands of years, though, people used a simpler technique that used nothing but natural, local materials.

Photos © Craig Mackintosh The main buildings at the PRI's Zaytuna Farm remind me a little of those cute homes I saw in tales in children's books as a kid. You know -- the edible type, made of sug

This building has a more primitive form of thatching on the main roof. The 'front porch' here is a failed experiment - the slope is too low for the straw to make the rain drain off.

Layout and booth building guidelines for a Renaissance Faire, and other outdoor themed events.

Below, Abu Saeed prepares the house for plastering, using small chinkstones and mortar to fill cracks and create a flat substrate for the interior plaster. Although obscuring the beautiful view […]

Chap 2, Part 1 Wattle and Daub walls Wattle formed by weaving reeds and other vegetative matter between supports daub is a kind of mud

How to build a wattle and daub house.

Wattle and Daub : A technique that has been in the use for more than 5000 years. Click on the link to learn more

Wattle and Daub Roof at Orchard Barn

Takeshi Hayatsu and Kristin Trommler of London studio 6a Architects collaborated with students at Cardiff University to build a timber-framed tea house with wattle and daub panels. The teahouse measures two by two metres, the size of two tatami mats, and was constructed with simple techniques and locally sourced materials. The students coppiced hazel wands from the