The latest issue of The Owner Builder will be on sale nationwide from 1 April 2014.
Each issue, we choose one article to share online. This time we have decided to share ‘Stone Haven’, an earth sheltered stone faced home.
The full article can be viewed on our website: Stone Haven
Some of the individual photographs from the article can be viewed below. You can also download your very own TOB 182 screen saver / wallpaper! Carry a little bit of TOB goodness with you, from issue to issue.
View of the house from the front with the green roof already growing well.
350 tonnes of stone for free!
Complex curves were achieved with a ‘half’ drystone wall technique.
Beautiful stonework – worth the effort!
Work around windows was agonisingly fi ddly getting more than one face right.
Sloping ‘Incan’ style masonry
Progress on the stonework was a very slow process due to the characteristics of the stone.
