MATERIALS AND DESIGN FEATURES

- Ratty old tin storage shed (1)

- 8" x 8" x 16" concrete blocks (enough to lay on the ground to support the new straw bale walls)

- Construction grade straw bales (enough to stack against the walls and cover them - laid on edge saves a few bales and provides just as good insulative value as straw bales laid flat)

- 1/2" rebar (to pin the bales one to the other)

- Polyethylene twine (to "sew" corners and make "half-bales")

- Sand, loose straw, "type-S" lime, and water (to make lime stucco plaster to seal the bales and protect against water intrusion - not to mention making it look nice)

- Corrugated metal roofing material and 2" EPS sheets (to form a second, false roof which is absolutely necessary for added strength and to insulate properly - should be made large enough in size to overhang the new straw bale walls to protect them)

- Used slider rear window (necessary for both adequate ventilation and light)

- Used adobe brick fragments (grouted to make a floor)

- Used external, solid-core house door

- Paint for the door and interior walls and some broken tiles and glass for mosaic decorations

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CONSTRUCTION PICTURES

POSSIBLE USES:

- Small Guest House

- Dog House (the human kind)

- Workshop

- Kid's Play House

- Grand Chicken Coop

- Storage Shed
"Wait, isn't this where we started?" -
"Well, yes, but a so much more attractive and well insulated storage shed!"

 

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