Sustainable, hand-crafted homes made for a modern lifestyle
A three bedroom architecturally designed Viva Home from $369,000*

These straw and earth homes were created to keep your lifestyle while being green. We believe you can have it all.

They're smart: sustainable, warm in winter, cool in summer, made from natural, organic materials such as clay, earth, timber, straw. They're robust, open plan, light and airy. For intimate couples or large families, these homes have been designed and built to look the part. 

Contemporary by nature and Australian in style.

They're built with environmental building materials, skills, techniques which work to reduce your carbon footprint, reduce wasteful energy or resources, utilise nature to keep an even temperature throughout the year and are natural for your family's health.

A Viva Home is built from straw bales, earth, mud, stone, timber. The walls can be straw bale with earth render, cobb walls made from clay, sand and earth. They can also be made from poured earth, or stone.

The most common thing people say about our houses are - "they feel amazing". It's such an unusual thing to say but it's true, when you walk into our homes they're everything people want in a home. Warm, welcoming, light, airy, amazing to look at, with the best sleeps! Immediately you can feel the difference in their natural qualities.

Don't forget to check out frequently asked questions and enviro links which help you for each option.

* ex site costs

You can choose 4 ways we can help build you a dream home:

1. Smart Plans & Designs

Designing your home is critical to creating an amazing house which suits who you are and made from the earth. So we've worked with an award winning architect to create a true Viva Living Home.... smart homes made from the earth, which look amazing, they're great for your health and the world.

Our floor plans have been created by our clients with special features to make life easier for you. Smart built-in storage solutions throughout your home, entertaining open plan layouts to suit the Australian outdoor lifestyle. Unique walk in pantries with a difference. There's so many smart solutions to make everyday living so much easier.

You can choose from one of our unique floor plans which have been designed with our clients telling us what they want, together with our environmental architects, and finally using the 10 years+ knowledge we've gained. This means you can owner build your own uniquely designed, environmental home. Our Viva Plans come with a Builder's Manual. In it you'll find they're the blueprint on how to build your own environmental home. It comes complete with a list of suppliers, materials, quantities, timelines, procedures on 'how to', step by step, including references. It's pretty much everything you need to move forward to building your own environmental home.  Check out

or you can choose from one of our project homes....

2. Project Homes with an edge!

If you're after a stunning environmental home at an affordable price, our set design homes may be just what you're after.

We design and construct sustainable homes. You just choose the design from our range of architecturally drawn plans and we quote the project for you so you know how much it will cost upfront. Once you sign off, we look after getting your plans through council and then build your home in a set time frame.

A lot of our clients don't have the knowledge, time or energy to research how to design and build an environmental home. Some people just want one built. They want to choose a design, the finishings, colours and then in a few months time, move in, no more to worry about. 

Our set design homes take out the hard work for you. We've researched and practised to find the best sustainable design which works and looks great. We've got over 10 years' knowledge and experience in working with natural materials so know the methods which meet Australian Building Code of Australia, breeze through Council, comply with CSIRO fire tests for flame zone. What's more, our practises ensure your home is rugged and robust against the elements.

Our project homes start from a fully completed 1 bedroom $200,000 (home only, ex site costs).

Fixed contracts and timeframes with set house designs and a licensed builder helps you get on with living your life.

3. Design & Build your own dream home

If you prefer to create your own unique dream home - we can design and/or build the perfect one for you. As a NSW MBA Qualified Master Builder, we will work with you to turn your ideas into a living home.

4. Owner building, renovating or need advice?

A lot of clients come to us needing help. They're not sure whether to renovate their current home, or demolish it and build a new house. They want to know if they can convert their garage into a straw home or a mud brick building easily. We'll need to visit your home to find out what you want, and then come up with building solutions for you.

In a lot of situations, simple solutions can be the answer.... cobbed walls (earthern), straw bale buildings or extensions... poured earth (form block) or rammed earth walls are great solutions. Afterall, our project homes are built using these materials.

Latest news, videos, info:

For the latest news on sustainable building, getting involved, how to design your own dream home and more, go to our Ecohouse Loungeroom. Check out "Ants Pants" our 3 bedroom design in the Loungeroom. Have your say. Write what you want in your dream eco house. Tell your story. Design your own dream sustainable house made of straw, earth and timber.

The Viva March Newsflash includes:

- how can I get started to building my own strawbale and sustainable home?;
- strawbale wall raising and earth rendering workshop near Canberra;
- the mortgage broker we use;
- fire regulations and strawbale building with the Building Code of Australia (BCA)

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