Retired Art Teacher Sculpts Her Own Natural Building!
In today's natural building tour, we will be visiting Deanne Bednar's Strawbale Studio which features several natural structures, including a strawbale studio, hobbit sauna, rocket mass heated bench, and more!
Deanne is the illustrator of The Hand-Sculpted House, one of the most influential natural building books ever created!
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Timeline:
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Backstory
2:08 - Deanne's Path to Natural Building
6:37 - The Tour!
7:13 - The Strawbale Studio: The Buliding Process
8:58 - Inside the Strawbale Studio
13:27 - Middle Earth
14:07 - The Hobbit Sauna
15:48 - Rocket Mass Bench
16:47 - Reflection
17:27 - Outro
Words from Deanne:
Gratitude!
...To Fran Lee, the original owner of the Strawbale Studio!
...To the original building team: Fran Lee, Carolyn Koch, Gregie Mathews & myself!
...To The Cob Cottage Co. teachers: Ianto Evans, Linda Smiley & Michael G. Smith!
...To all the folks whose hands helped build the Strawbale Studio!
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I spent the last month interning and living at Strawbale Studio with Deanne. Just two weeks ago she was excitedly telling us around the dinner table that this video hit 10k views, now it’s well over 100k !! Deanne is a gem, and SBS is magic, it fills me with so much joy to see this amount of acknowledgment and praise for this place ❤
Haha aw this is so sweet. Thank you! I am glad to share her message. She is a gem indeed 🌞
Over 20 years ago I found a photograph of this strawbale cottage with snow on the ground around it. I've shared the elements of sustainable, passive, natural building with hundreds of students using the photo with the story that this beauty was handcrafted by women, but I did not know who to credit. Thank you @Natural Building and Deanne Bednar for telling Fran Lee, Carolyn Koch, Gregie Mathews and your story! I'm thrilled with tears in my eye to learn the details, see inside, and feel warmth in my chest as warm as a rocket oven heated bench. Best of health and blessings of continued creativity!
Thank you so much Alex! 💙🙏 One of the kindest comments I have received. Thanks for spreading this important knowledge as well!! 🌞🌎
Omg, I have been to this house!!!! My mother in law took me to her house and we made homemade tapered candles in her home. She was so sweet!
This woman and these buildings exude love ❤
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She seems so content and warm
I loved everything about it. ❤❤❤
100% Yes! 💜😊
I've harbored a secret fantasy of crafting a unique, sculptural home that snuggles gently into the landscape. For someone with an artistic soul, living inside the fruits of imagination elevates life itself as a harmonic artform. These cottages are a visual song of hand, heart, and community. Tremendous awe & respect to you! 🤲✨️❤️🔥
Как красиво и поэтично Вы передали свои мысли! Приятно читать. Вам благополучия в жизни желаю!
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That's me at the bottom of 5:44! I love you, Deanne! You're truly inspiring and so lovely and I think of you often!
Such an inspiration!!! Thank you the more people see and hearing about the alternative to stick and brick homes. The Oregon Cobb cottage and they have been doing it and teaching for over 30 years. Sorry Deanne I was directed to the channel person. I love that you have done this. This is encouraging to see you do your Cobb studio. I am 60 and want to get starting my own home and growing my grown food and composting toilet. And rain water catchment.I am proud you did this and you should be very proud. What a great job.
I did an internship here four years ago and it was on the best experiences of my life. Deanne is a gem and SBS is so special. I’m very grateful to have not only lived there for a month, but actually have a hand in these beautiful creations. I met so many amazing people that passed through as well. When I stayed, we did the finish plaster on middle earth and it’s amazing to see it now ❤ Support her if you can!!
So beautiful and surreal. As a black African living in Africa, this is so relatable. This is so "Afrotecture".
How can you call it “Afrotecture” when building with clay, twigs and straw was used in Europe just as well?
@@Celisar1 Its much more common in Africa now, although England still has a fair amount of thatched roofs and clay walls
I love how she strokes the cob walls! Irisistable.
I'm a Michigander!! What a relief to know our climate resonates with this build!!
What a beautiful house. When I was young I would like to have a house with the form of a boot, now I see this lady having a fairytale house. I wish you the best, God bless you 🙏
I'M GOING TO BUILD WHOLE VILLAGES. I LOVE THIS STUFF
Do it! I'll buy one. Can't build one myself, but would LOVE to live in one.
Come to my village an explore & build with a new cob / mud house... We welcome you at anytime.... Cheers🍹 From Asia With Love... 🥰
К славянам приезжайте, будем рады!
I grew up in Vietnam. When we were very poor, my dad had to used straw and clay dirt to build us a house in our 1 acre land by using cob wall method; we were kids around 8-10 years old at time helping out dad putting the wall together; it was fun; the roof was covered by coconut leaves; this was done in 1978; I am glad to see how it begins popular in United States
So good to see you, Deanne!! I was just talking to Gretta about our time with you at Christina's. I can't believe it's been 10 years. Much love to you.
This brought tears to my eyes. So much emotional depth. So much love and higher vibrations. Thank you for sharing
Very nice to see efforts of this respective innovative and humbled senior citizen living in nature.
Facinating approach to build housing on local natural material. Modern times the synthetic materials are bombarded in the market place & very attractive although they are very expensive and harmful in the long run. Ancient great ideas are back & are creating more environment friendly true natural and minimal architecture in the townscape which is befitting the landscape and then life is becoming more natural also interesting.! Great, keep it up going.!
Thank you man. That’s the idea and you get it 💡🙏
The most loved home that I had seen in my life. ❤❤❤
These organic,living spaces elevate human beings’ frequencies and integrates us back into nature,our true north! Thank you so much for this video! Immediately recognize this as one guidepost for me from One!
It's wonderful you can get a group of people to help you build these structures because they are labor-intensive. It's a beautiful complex.
This was a very informative video and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. By the way, I am from India where in the country side villages we can still find houses built in this process. It has excellent insulation capacity and protection in both winter and summer. The earthy colour is very aesthetic and pleasant, which enhances and compliments any kind of ornamental artwork...
this is so inspiring!! Can't wait to make my own natural building someday
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Yes...let's do it
So wonderful lady thank you and all a part of this magic❤
The beauty of a team!! There is a Tribe somewhere in Africa, I WILL.research it right after my comment. A group of Women tie knots made with help.rope... the result is INCREDIBLE!! A very sturdy round structure with protective spikes on the outside so wild boars don't run into it! They look like stars! Unbelievable, how fast and focused these young and much older women are! In no time, they've got a little dwelling!!Knots and faith..alot of joyful singing while the knotting and designing is being completed! You see? We are all.the same! We all.need a home!
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Вы правы. Простые и чистые люди земли бережно относятся к природным ресурсам, нам не надо богатств, земель и новых захватнических территорий. Мы умеем радоваться друг другу, солнцу и всему нас окружающему. Пусть на земле будет мир, дружба народов и любовь, с остальным человек сильный справится. Всем любви к друг другу, понимания, прощения и принятия без религий, политики и расовой дискриминации.
It touches my soul, so beautiful.
More than amazing, the buildings, the details and of course the creator of such beauty.
Wonderful to see someone turn their home into their passion.
Deanne's illustration in Ianto and Linda's book are beautiful ❤️
So amazing!! She is very talented :)
Could you give a link, please?
What a warm and magical looking place. I need this in my life🙏🏼❤
I just love these particular kind of clay based home ❤❤❤ n all around Greenery ..... It's something that touched my heart I am really thrilled n flattered.
I first saw a cob structure on the property of an AirB&B I stayed at in Asheville, NC. It was amazing. I stared at it a long time trying to figure it out. It didn’t appear new but at the same time it seemed very sound and sturdy (no melting/weathering as you’d expect from a mud building!) Excited to learn more!
I’m from NC :) I love the mountains there. Hopefully will be building in NC mountains before too too long
Amazing and beautiful! 🥰
Bellissima casa ,e ecologica , e atmosfera di infanzia.Super bella.
💜💜💜Love love love love love love love love this!!!💜💜💜
ART TEACHERS ARE THE BEST , I LOVE ALL OF YOU. INSIPIRED SO MANY OF OUR CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN. God PROTECT THEM ALL. 🎊♥️❤️
Beautiful preoccupation of this lady artist in sculpture after retirement!
Thank you for sharing. What an awesome community and project. Stays cool and warm, naturally.
Thank you for sharing, this is so inspiring! One thing struck me - you can be excited, create at any age! Starting exciting near the retirement is inspiring ❤ kudos! Building feels build with lot of love 💗
What utter joy! The whole video radiated energy life warmth and love! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for appreciating 🙏
I wonder if we were at the Cob building workshop together back in 1996 or so… I had two sons, one four and the other just barely beginning to walk when we helped Ianto Evans with a lovely cob structure on Earthlands in Massachusetts. I have an awesome photo of my little son sitting on a stone slab which was set chest high as a shelf in the cob wall that was only a few layers higher than that shelf at the time of the photo.
Super cool natural build. Lots of great ideas to apply to our tiny cob home build
I for some reason literally cried watching this video the way that the comfort and love came through in this video of those buildings make me reap to piss one to be there
Me encantaría tener una casa así, tan cálida y creativa. Disfruté de los árboles y animales esculpidos, las formas redondeadas, la multiplicidad de ventanas integradas a la naturaleza. Como persona mayor , no podría dormir arriba ( no soy ágil) pero en una planta, sería feliz en un hogar así. El taller me fascinó. Felicitaciones para the art teacher! ❤ 🇺🇾
Надо сильно верить и Ваше намерение, дорогая, исполнятся! Здоровья Вам и удачи!
Wow, that place is spectacular. I can feel that emotional pull around the love, joy, kindness pouring out of you and Cob Cottage I suppose. ❤ thanks
Beautiful person and a beautiful sory❤
Beautiful!
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Amazing!!!!! Congratulations! 👍👏👌❤🌹
Thank you so much for sharing this! It was wonderful listening to her describe her home with SO much love.
Simply UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Stunningly beautiful home. Bravo! 👏❤️🙏🏼
Empowering and inspiring on many levels thank each for sharing the insight of natural building tips and techniques.
The place for soul. Incredible.
Those houses look so comfy, thanks for sharing!
There's so much love in to building your home, absolutely gorgeous.
This type of work may prove much more important than these people realize. I love the houses and the way they're built, close to nature. I love the outdoors, and believe this is so much better for the body and soul than anything else. The only better thing would be a cave in the Himalayas.
Вы правы!!! Люди пресытились таким устройством мира, потому что душа человека желает жить в гармонии со всем пространством.
Better than a cave!
WOW ! 💚💚💚
So much love and richness in this experience
Love it! Love it! Love it!!!
True Love of Environmentaly Friendly Beautiful Most Natural buildings that are connecting completely with Our Unique Nature ..🌿🥰🍀💚🍀🥰🌿
What a fantastic page!
Thank you!!!!! 💙🙏
Loved this woman💕💕💕
The studio is a beautiful charming house that is probably very pleasant to live in. I wouldn't say no!
鎖定目光的極品佳作感恩謝謝你的分享讓我們一飽眼福，一級棒幾百分。
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Lucky You! Very nice unique home. Glad that someone can do this-
💚💚💚 Ma future maison 👌 ! 😃 Magnifique ☀️ ! 💚💚💚
Very impressed. Wanting to take this building method to the Amazon jungles of Brazil. Thanks for sharing
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So beautiful
Absolutely awesome. I will move in tomorrow ❤
v cute house... and what a nice way to do building, eating salade from garden,like a dream way of life, like what we hear in fairy tales;.. so pretty
So glad i found this so early this is such a cool house!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!! Strawbale Studio is an incredible place 🌞 Please share with anyone you think may also enjoy it 💙🙏😀
Wow, its amazing house...❤❤❤
Good works, Deanne! I must figure out ways to share my projects. Thanks for being such an inspiration!
We don't own anything outright. We're only custodians of our houses and our earthly belongings. There's no point getting attached to tangible things; it's better to share them and watch the joy they give others. One day, we will go where we came from. We didn't bring anything from that place and we won't take anything there! Just love everyone around you and share everything. We never know what date has the return ticket has been booked for. It could be tomorrow or tonight... ❤🤗
100% 🌞🙏💙
You are living a dream. How wonderful.
Just so amazing love this
So inspiring!
Wow most beautiful ❤ it show how much love it has in this .
Holy cow. That's a lot of work and quite an achievement. Well done.
This woman forgot to get old. ❤
Gorgeous homes, I would love to live in a space like that. It reminds me very much of the Art Nouveau style, which makes sense given it also recognised nature, organic curves and muted hues.
so beautiful!
Wow is amazing what you create, i would like to create something like this in our property on the mountain....thank you for showing us your creation
Stunning ❤
And I would like to say you are a very lovely person. Thanks 😊
Amazing!
Fantastic, inspiration 👏
GORGEOUS house!!!!
This is amazing 😍
Just awesome to be creative, resourceful ❤️❤️❤️
Incredible 🥲💖
Absolutely breathtaking 🥰🥰🥰🥰
So beautiful ❤
Amazing 😍
AMAZING!!!! 💖
wow what an amazing video
Love your Truth Wall. Awesome experience❣
maravilhosa casa !!! técnica incrível !!! 👏👏👏❤❤❤
love it!
Yes yes cut trees to make natural buildings 😍