Cob home interior

Cob houses are an amazing way to build a house. In this simple guide I break down everything you need to know about building a beautiful cob home.

"Hi friend, I made a white background with waterproofing, on it I applied a layer of epoxy resin. Before drying, I sprayed marble powder and then removed the excess powder, then applied another coat of resin." - Paulo Saloni, Bambusall

Sophia Maamouri and Jim Kennedy’s dodecahedral cordwood home, in South Paris, revises the genre’s typical round shape with flat walls.

The process of building a tiny house out of earth and found materials is very appealing. While doing my research, I came across a few tiny cob houses that I thought epitomized how warm, human-scaled and friendly they can be.

If you have spent any time at all researching off-the-grid houses and energy-efficient homes, you probably have run across the mention of a cob house. A cob house is not made from corn cobs, as I first assumed when I heard the term, but rather uses a mixture of sand, straw, and clay similar to an adobe house to build a sturdy, non-traditional house that is surprisingly easy to construct, and durable.