Thatched Cottage in Ireland

I remember seeing this cottage and reflecting on all the plastics and highly processed materials we had been using in dome construction. This was built of materials from the immediate environs and part of the land, both physically and visibly. It’s in Shelter.

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

One Response to Thatched Cottage in Ireland

  1. Wow its a gem but in need of repair where was the cottage.? By the style of thatching I would say the midland to west Of Ireland.

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