We all know that building a house takes time. At least, building a proper house takes time. When you realize that most homes build nowadays have a life expectancy of 20 years (which is shorter that most mortgages) it makes sense to put a bit more effort into building your home ...

Building a house is an enormous undertaking but building a house in a country with a different language and culture almost sounds ludicrous. At this point it is safe to say that is brings its challenges. Of course we knew that it would be hard, we have prepared ourselves for extra ...

April 2011 we are starting with our project of building an ecological sustainable house in the south of Belgium. Rammed Earth We will build the house with rammed earth, straw bale and local wood. We started thinking of building a sustainable house a few years ago and came across the earthships. It blew ...

Last Thursday we visited the established ruling order of Vaux-sur-Sûre. Or rather.., we visited the local "urbanism" office to see if our design would pass the scrutiny of said government. We also visited our small piece of the Earth, chatted with our neighbours and visited a gathering of Dutch Wallons. Oh.., and ...

After posting the previous post I received an email from Dean Gregory over at The Power Collective. My worry about RidgeBlade is that it might be expensive. I let Dean explain otherwise in his own words: whilst we cannot know the exact cost of the RidgeBlade units until we have finalised our ...