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The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)

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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company

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Get a leg up on the first Little Pig with The Straw Bale House, your guide to inexpensive, durable, earth-friendly construction that will stand up to much more than the Big Bad Wolf. Authors Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen founded the Canelo Project, which promotes innovative building; David Bainbridge is a California restoration ecologist; and David Eisenberg is an alternative-materials builder who pioneered straw bale wall testing. Between them, they have encyclopedic knowledge of their subject. The book is comprehensive, broadly covering why and how to build with straw and then focusing on the details, which are both intellectually and aesthetically delightful.

Beside being cheap, clean, and lightweight, straw also provides advantages like energy efficiency and resistance to seismic stresses. For the nervous Martha Stewart types, there are scads of black-and-white and color plates of strikingly beautiful interiors and exteriors from New Mexico to southern France. Both new and experienced builders will appreciate the clear, simple instructions and diagrams, as well as practical explanations for dealing with building codes and insurers. The Straw Bale House shows us advantages so numerous and dramatic that you'll wonder why we ever moved on to sticks and bricks. --Rob Lightner


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 693.997
EAN: 9780930031718
ISBN: 0930031717
Label: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1994-12
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Studio: Chelsea Green Publishing Company


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates (Real Goods Solar Living Book.)
• The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes
• Building a Straw Bale House: The Red Feather Construction Handbook
• More Straw Bale Building: A Complete Guide to Designing and Building with Straw (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
• Small Strawbale


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

This is a great place to start. -
For someone who knew nothing about straw bale construction this book was not only informative, but also inspiring. The Straw Bale House contains a lot of good information about the specifics of straw bale construction. I found that because it covered information about straw bale construction from start to finish it couldn't go into as much detail about any one aspect as much as I would have liked. However, my feeling is that this book was designed to get you interested and then send you out to gather the more specific information for yourself. It has proven effective at inspiring me.

Strawbale heaven!! -
This is a must have. If you are totally new (as I was) then this book will give you a good solid understanding of the pros and cons of strawbale construction. It is obvious that the authors know what they are talking about.

If you are vaguely interested in SB and haven't got this one you're really missing out.

Thanks Steen Steen and Bainbridge for this wonderful contribution.

informative for the curious, not a build it manual -
The Steens have written two books on this subject, this one from 1994, is the most informative as far as actual construction information goes. I would say that if you think you might want to actually build a straw home get this book and their second book,The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes(from 2000). After reading these books you'll need more information both about straw bale work and other construction and carpentry books, Amazon has a selection of those.

An inspiring and informative book -
This book would seem to be an indispensible starting point for anyone looking into the straw bale home concept. If the thought of a poorly-insulated, energy-guzzling, expensive, bland, mass-produced, contractor-built home doesn't quite appeal to you, this book is essential, for it shows that inexpensive doesn't have to mean low quality nor unattractive. In fact, bales and other "natural", low-cost building materials can yield attractively individual results in part because they are easy and fun to work with, enfranchising the future owner to be his or her own designer and builder. The inspiring photos included in the book help make the case for the aesthetic advantages. Of course, the most important function is to show how to build the straw bale home. In this respect, the book succeeds admirably, giving diagrams to illustrate the major techniques being used and showing how simple straw bale building is. Incidentally, this would make an attractive book for your coffee table even if you are just mildly interested in the subject. One warning though: even including the index and other back-of-the-book sections, there are only 297 pages, not 336!

Straw Houses that won't be blown down! -
I must admit being fairly sceptical about straw bale construction until I read this book...

The style is very assessible and the content is thorough, interesting and informative. Just about every angle is covered in depth without being overly technical.

Includes useful covereage of many associated areas, such as rammed earth, adobe and passive solar issues.

An inspirational read for whether you are a dreamer or seriously intent on buiding your own house!

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