Hi Lloyd 🙂
I’m a long time reader and lover of your wonderful books — thank you so much for sharing the treasures you find and inspiring so many builders out there. You have a great eye for beauty in natural and built form.
Here is a structure I built inspired by works I have seen in your books (Home Work is still my fave!).
Thanks again for bringing positivity and sharing the joy.
Be well.
Ben Anderson,
Wollongong, AustraliaCuttlefish Cottage: Latest build. About 50 tons of soil on the roof, all glass (apart from louvres) was destined for the crushers, so I built windows and doors to fit the glass. Mud brick walls covered in local white clay ‘paint’ I made, all furniture & kitchen from hard rubbish piles or off ‘Gumtree’ (like Craigslist), local made steel beams (we have a steel mill in town). All hardwood timber from salvage, e-crete floors (using clan, fly-ash & recycled aggregate), trombe wall, passive solar design, vegetable garden on the roof (makes amazing watermelon!!!), solar hot water, amazing ‘landscape tanks’ for retaining walls and water storage combined, outdoor kitchen for our market garden (check out ‘Popes Produce‘ on Instagram/F-book) and heaps more!
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Wow, I quite like this. Feels airy and “just enough” in terms of space. I’m trying to picture where the second bedroom is accessed. Appreciate greatly the showcasing, as usual, Lloyd.