Beautiful Cob
For next summer, I’ve been looking at taking a cob building workshop to update my building skills, learn some natural building techniques, and get closer to the natural world. The process of building a tiny house out of earth and found materials is very appealing. While doing my research, I came across a few tiny cob houses that I thought epitomized how warm, human-scaled and friendly they can be. Some of these were so beautiful, I just had to share.
Cob Cottage Company
Photos by Marisa Pereira
Photo by Kristi and/or Jimbo Diebley.
Other tiny cob home links:
By Christina Nellemann for the [Tiny House Blog]
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THIS is what I’ve been seearching for! Where can I learn to build one?
Hi Michael, I don’t know where you are located but here are a couple of cob workshops:
In Oregon
http://www.cobcottage.com/workshops
In Texas
http://www.tinyhousedesign.com/2010/08/23/hybrid-cobearthship-workshop-in-october/
Also check out this page on Natural Homes http://naturalhomes.org/
I also think Real Goods offers a cob workshop but I was not able to track it down. http://www.realgoods.com/
Oh, these really appeal to me. Much more my kind of thing than something built on a metal platform with wheels instead of attached to the ground. They are both beautiful and livable, very warm and inviting. I’d love to live in a community of these. Who knows: maybe it will happen. Jeannette, are you watching?
Another one on Mayne Island in BC http://www.cobworks.com/ Has a catchy little tune on the website too. There is a cob house tour coming up August 28 on Mayne, a cob and carpentry workshop in September.
A few more workshops are here:
http://cobworkshops.org
http://www.kleiwerks.com
Probably one of the best books I’ve read on cob is The Hand Sculpted House by the founders of the Cob Cottage Company in Oregon.
What a great post Christina. I still have never seen one of these in person, they look warm and inviting. Must be a good feeling to live in one. I’ll have to pick up one of those books.
Oh, these are so warm and beautiful! I love the fact that all the “edges” are soft and round. I love that so much of the home has built-ins, and little personal touches (like the exclamation point!). I can’t wait for the day when I can go to a workshop and build one of these cob cottages myself. These are the homes I imagined as a child, and loved to daydream about a small, safe, loving home built around the trunk of a big old weeping willow tree, hidden from the rest of the world by the sweep of green branches. Thank you so much for this post.