Daniel and Katharine Ray in Victor, Montana are living in a home created by their own hands, and now they’re teaching others how to do it themselves. For two years they worked on their house on their 5-acre property, building primarily out of cob sourced locally.
“Cob has to be mixed together on a tarp. It makes probably 3 cubic feet of material. You put it on the wall in courses going up. The walls are all monolithic as opposed to adobe bricks, which are mortared. This is all just one big adobe brick,” Daniel said.
With zero background in construction and architecture, the couple learned how to build from books. Every piece of the home has been crafted by the owners. Not everything is leveled, save for the doors. “With natural building, it’s like everything is curved, everything is artistic, and you can’t do that with a door. It has to be squared. It has to fit…
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