Meka's Cob Cottage

[moexposit]

i love this house! amaaaizing!!!

what the name of two songs?? R' fantastics!

[MekaX1337]

RAWR I WANT MY COTTEGE XD

[eojadiius]

beautiful home

[eojadiius]

name of song?

[SetTruthFree]

5 IDIOTS DISLIKED THIS, WHY, FUCK PEOPLE......

[intellectable]

Love the design. Your cottage is so idiosyncratic. Each space feels so genius with the creative symmetry breaking in the accented shelving. The lighting from the creative shaped windows makes everything feel so surprising. Your home is a true treasure. Thanks for sharing.

[mushymcsquishy]

^.^ charming.

[rogueronin82]

Nice.....Where's the door and where's the john???..

[laswan5]

This is probably my fave cobb house in video. I love the so many personal touches like the blue bottles in the wall. And I love the built in stuff, shelves and I like the eyes over the bed too. I just love this place. Everytime I watch this I instantly feel warm and cozy. I want one so bad. People always confront me with the statement, "you can't build one in WA state on the Olympic Peninsula cuz of the rain". But I hear it can be done. Look at Europe-thatched roofs 100's yrs old.

[dead4fun]

how many square feet is it?

[80spopQueen]

if i ever got into a ouse like that you would ave to drag me to get out!

[80spopQueen]

with all the glassy looking "retro" homes in the US, it's not as hommy as a hand made claw dome! i the claw is highy unflamible and isn't high matanance as a triditional wood home! WE NEED THESE HOMES IN AMERICA!!

[sibkiss2009]

@80spopQueen No more 30 yr mortgages at incredible interest rates just to afford to "buy" a home

[wtfdoihavetodohere]

Imagine trying to live in a cob house designed by H.R Geiger!

[TheNanasgarden]

I love it and one day soon I will make one !

[singularityensemble]

who is playing the banjo???

[yourgardens]

this might be a stupid question but do you need planning permission to build a hob?

Awesome work by the way!

[s9TeeN]

Very nice home! I'm only 22 but one day I will have a cob home built by my own two hands and maybe some help from friends and family! lol I love old things and this to me seems as old school and even fantasy like as one can get in this day and age! Thanks for the share every video like this is pure inspiration for my dreams!

[AmericaMustHeal]

How funny Asheville is mentioned, I also plan to possible move there, I love this house!!

[Misscurlynoli]

Your house is amazing... congratulations on building it! How long did the project take? I would love to build a house like this... I live in Ireland would a cob structure be able to withstand a lot of rain?

[cvrnut09]

instead of banishing the building codes maybe we should banish the short sided unimaginitive types that are unwilling to work with us. As for me, I am at the point where I cannot stand square corners anywhere

[rawmark]

Lovely but I've decided to build a rammed earth home after taking a few courses in cob and rammed earth.

[MissMatania]

wow! that's seems to be the coziest home I've ever seen!!

[laswan5]

I love this.

[kja5]

This is one of the nicest cob homes on YT.

[zekehooper]

what a cool place. Some day I want to build a cob or earthbag home. Love the stairs!

[greendang]

I love it! How nice that you could live in such a beautiful environment!! Congratulations!!

[KingRyltar]

what type of plaster mix, is used to seal the exterior and interior walls?

curious

[cdltpx]

A home with an extraverted personality.

[AetherWisp]

Lovely. Enchanting.

[TheWaterlily2012]

Beautiful!

[owlydog]

this is pretty cool the college kids would love this vid and this home it would go over like hot cake's in our town

[dusteroo]

@owlydog

what town might you be referring to ?

[meow98]

Really cool, do you have electricity for air-conditioning?

[OutdoorsBlackMan]

In my opinion air-conditioning is a non-issue.

[ChenStyleJohn]

WOW! This is a beautiful home. When I move to a community can I use your plans? Seriously amazing!

Thank you for sharing.

[TimTrimT]

Damn that is a seriously pimp crib. I mean beautiful house. :)

[CAPSLOCKISONDAMNIT]

Beautiful...

[CelticPaladin]

I would really like to know what music this is.

[Furiousdjinn]

Yeah yeah. This house is a cobb house. Great... But really, how many people listen to old time? YES! Five stars just fer' the soundtrack. good stuff.

[WBHkungfu]

Wow, very beautiful house!!! I plan on building a cob home for my wife and I when I buy some land. I also have the "Hand Sculpted House" by Ianto, Linda & Michael. I love the stained glass windows too! Very romantic and cozy at the same time. I don't know why the norm in the US don't build more with earth instead of wood only? Anyways, nice vid.

[happyasafool]

i LOVE your home!!!! i did some sculpture and love the natural flowing shapes!! i cant wait to build!! thanks for the vid : ) blessings!

[rbkiernan]

An excellent resource for anyone wanting to explore the concept of cob is "The Hand Sculpted House" by Ianto Evans.

[sonjacoryat]

Gorgeous. I wish I could find a house like this for myself and my dog. Most houses in the US are ugly, unimaginative, stupid looking, impractical and tasteless.

[robbibaba]

Finding the land is the hard part, for me at least. Meka built this cottage on someone else's property. He doesn't "own" it. Ianto Evans suggests finding a landowner and offering to build such a place in exchange for 5 years rent free living.

Not a bad idea, especially if you're young.

[samlucero]

@sonjacoryat You are ugly, unimaginative, stupid looking, impractical and tasteless.

[COSMICBUM]

@samlucero that's an ass-umption

[clhSerenity]

beautiful place.  this is definitely something that I am greatly interested in.

[quantumsolutions]

Gorgeous!

It just occurred to me how insane it is that this would probably not meet most building code laws---a beautiful soulful loving healthful space like this, yet it is perfectly within the laws to abort a child.

Somethin' just ain't right y'all. When do we get back to sanity? Peace.

[FreyaEinde]

Wtf does one have to do with the other?

[adamatova]

OK - this is officially my new house. Thank you - where are the keys?

[iFUKtheDEAD]

I'm so jealous that is just beautiful ans whimsical did you buy it or build it.

[Struckgold]

I'd prefer nuclear concrete... just kiddin. It's an inspiration, well done folks.

[sapodotroposo]

Oh, that would be the place to live happily everafter! One can see he put love in the making of every inch of the project!

[NicolaMonk]

how beautiful. I can't imagine how much work and time went into this. I don't think I'd be able to do it... maybe one day I'll build a cob oven or a small meditation house... maybe :) .

[robbibaba]

It's true, it probably took a great deal of time and work. But the work was often play, I think. And how much time do folks spend paying off a mortgage? If I recall, this house only cost about $6000 to build! And it is the most welcoming house I've ever been in.

[Cstrife234]

@robbibaba Yeah, I'm gonna try to save up and get an acre or two. Build one and do all of the windows and furniture by hand. I'm a blacksmith as well, so I should have a lot of fun.

[mackstann]

Cob lasts for centuries -- there are very old cob homes in England that are still in fine shape. You just have to keep it dry, but the same can be said for wood.

[xis333]

I want to build me own house like this in asheville,NC!... i even have a name for it,,the "Hobitat"....:P

[robbibaba]

Great name!

[cloudberry121]

Won't it melt in heavy rain? What stops that from happening?

[robbibaba]

It will melt in heavy rain--after a hundred years or so! The cobbing process basically creates sedmintary stone. The clay and sand form a chemical/mechanical bond and the straw hold it all together.

But the real answer to your question is: a good roof and possibly a stone facing along the bottom to deflect any backsplash.

[cloudberry121]

Thank you for the answer. It can really be pretty.

[katievhoneychurch]

I've always wanted to build a place like this,all it needs is a dogon door.

[H0LL0WBELLY]

BEAUTIFUL ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.

[Basilbird94]

That person lives right next to me.

[adamatova]

Beautiful.

Durability as opposed to other materials? that would be my prime concern...

[Tobes1962]

absolutely beautiful..so much love and hard work has produced a work of art..very inspirational..:-)

[kevleitrim]

the house reflects the personality, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!

[FaeryComeDraw]

I've watched this a number of times. I love it! I was wondering how many people live in it and if you were able to design it yourself?

[robbibaba]

Actually, we were just visiting. The wonderful fellow who designed and built it is Meka and his contact info is listed next to the video somewhere. He's an incredible person!

[aNaturalist]

Great video! Nice filming! Thanks for promoting building with cob.

[turuanu]

That's beautiful. I loved the crescent window the most. Now, all those niches in the wall, I understand how they can be dug out of the cob wall, but does anyone know how they are done in a strawbale house? I saw them there, too.

[robbibaba]

With strawbale the niche has to be cut out of the straw. It can be done with an electric carving knife (I bought one at a garage sale for a buck)or some people use a grinder. It's not too hard, as long as the bales aren't stacked so the strings face vertical. You don't want to cut the strings.

[roodala]

What a beautiful home. thanks for sharing.

[RagamuffinRita]

Wow! I am so happy for you. What a amazing home.. I can only dream of a home so beautiful...

[bluffle]

I've been a long time fan of cob and straw bale building and have looked longingly at countless pictures (planning for the day when we finally get a chance to build our own)...but this has to be the most beautiful house I've ever seen. The tiniest details are all perfect...niches, shelves, the beautiful buddah eye windows (which must look incredible at night with candles burning!) I'm blown away.

[justaguy123456]

I love it when people ignore the building code. Banish the building codes!

[mizpath]

Yeah ! How did we ever survive without code compliance.

[robbibaba]

I think maybe the codes are good for developers, to keep them from building dangerous or really shoddy places. But owner-builders should have much more leeway!

[Lifecomesfromwithin]

@justaguy123456 I agree.

[samlucero]

@justaguy123456 Hell ya, like Haiti!

[dusteroo]

@justaguy123456

Y E S !

To H E L L with building codes !

[mojool]

awesome! thanks

[Darkwingedfae]

Absolutely wonderful!

[Corez6]

This is gorgeous. Once I'm done University I plan to build something similar.

Thank you so much for sharing. I appreciate it. :)

[robbibaba]

You're very welcome. It was a joy to visit this place. Good luck with your building, and if you want some great instruction check out Cobtogether and/or White Oak Farm in Southern Oregon.

[Annemiek13]

beautiful! thanks for sharing :)

[aihlo]

love this house. check out a book called the hand sculpted house by Ianto Evans and a few others

[obsidianvoid]

Trully beautiful, My dream is to build something similar to this, but i plan to build an underground / earthship hybrid. Thankyou for sharing this video of your wonderful home.

[TonyKaku]

I absolutely love the biomorphic look. I can't step into a conventional building these days without the hard angles of the drywall making me feel cold and unwelcome.

And what a great way to save on cabinetry work!