Decide What Kind Of Cob-Wall Project To Build This project can feel a bit daunting at first glance, but there are ways to give it a whirl without committing an unending string of weekends to the ...

Daniel and Katherine Ray live debt-free in a 700-square-foot cob house that they built by hand. The couple now runs a business teaching others how to build their own sustainable houses amid rising ...

Despite its huge environmental benefits, cob is an extremely niche construction material. As part of our Building with Cob series, architecture editor Lizzie Crook explores what it would take to ...

For two years, Daniel and Katharine Ray worked on their house on their 5-acre property in the Bitterroot, building primarily out of cob -- a combination of dirt, clay, water and straw.

I build houses out of trash. I was inspired by the life of Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangarĩ Maathai, who said, “It’s the little ...