While building codes in the U.S. are only just starting to catch up, and you'll want to brush up on how to navigate getting permits, it's possible to get a cob house permitted in any state.

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 ...

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.

Cos Cob house offers space, space and space. By Robert Marchant, Reporter Dec 28, 2017. ... “The media center in the lower level closes off, nice and dark,” said Ward, ...

“Brown is the new green,” says Elliott, 50, who built a 120-square-foot cob house of his own on a ranch outside Sebastopol in west Sonoma County “Nothing is more sustainable.

Related: Gorgeous Solar Geodesic Dome Crowns Cob House in the Arctic Circle “The house works as we intended and planned. We love the house; it has a soul of its own and it feels very personal.

Cob is a low-carbon material poised for a revival, according to scientist Steve Goodhew. In this Building with Cob interview, ...