Peter and Natasha

We are owner builders in Merrimu, 55 km west of Melbourne (near Bacchus Marsh), passionate about sharing our experiences in sustainable building and sustainable living. Our intention is to inform, entertain, inspire and educate others as we go through our journey.  If you are looking for something in particular, use our search facility - just click on a word on the 'keywords' panel on left hand side of this page and it will take you to a search page. 

We are currently adding NEW SECTIONS - under our straw bale house info. Our new sections so far are 'Links & Resources', 'How we built/compressed our external straw bale walls', 'Our Fabulous Composting Toilets ' and 'No Experience Necessary'.  Still to come.... 'How we bult our internal Kram® walls', 'Getting Planning/Building Approval' and 'Mice/vermon and straw bales'.

SUMMARY:
* Owner Builders, started building 20th Oct 2008, obtained Certificate of Occupancy 2nd March 2010
* Over ninety people have contributed to building our house (and counting!)
* Still to finish: bathroom; install recycled tasi oak flooring inside; install calico on ceilings; lots of 'finishing off' type stuff on inside (ie architraves, patch ups on the walls) and install wardobe in one bedroom.