A Viva Straw bale and Earth Home is up for Sale!

We have completed and are now selling a strawbale and earth home in Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains (NSW).

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Our 8 Star Energy Rated Strawbale & Earth Home

Straw "bale-up" and rendering workbee 22-25th March 8am - 5pm in Gemalla (near Bathurst)

Want to learn how to build a stawbale home and get experience? There's a workbee where you will learn how it's done, while also helping us with the work. We'd love to see you, just book in with Deb. Sorry, we're now booked up! 

A three bedroom, architecturally designed Viva Home is from $369,000 (incls gst. Ex site costs)

These strawbale, cob, poured earth and rammed earth homes were created to keep your lifestyle while being green. We believe you can have it all.

Why build a strawbale and earth home? They are sustainable, warm in winter, cool in summer, made from natural, organic materials such as clay, earth, timber, strawbales. These strawbale homes are robust, open plan, light and airy. For intimate couples or large families, our strawbale homes have been designed and built to be beautiful and to withstand the harsh Australian climate, for years to come. 

Each of our straw bale houses have been hand crafted and have been customised by you. They have a look and feel which is personalised and reflect your life and taste.

These straw bale and earth homes are unique. They are built with natural and sustainable building materials using the specialised skills of our tradesmen and techniques which reduce your carbon footprint,  power and water usage. These strawbale homes use nature to keep an even temperature throughout the year and are natural for your health. There aren't any nasty chemicals which off gas.

A Viva Strawbale 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, rammed earth or stone.

NEW!! Straw bale Studios - easy to build. Materials delivered to site. Just put the kit together using our videos and Builder's Manual. We'll help you organise trades and a straw bale workshop.

The most common thing people say about our straw bale houses are - "they feel different". 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 look up our frequently asked questions and enviro links which help you for each option.

You can choose 4 ways we can help build you a strawbale and earth home:

1. Smart Plans & Designs

Designing your earth and strawbale 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.... straw and earth 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 solar passively designed floor plans they've been designed especially to be solar passive while using strawbales, poured earth, cob or rammed earth as the building materials. 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 pre designed strawbale  homes..

2. Pre-designed Straw bale Homes are made from Strawbales poured earth & cob

If you're after a sustainable, natural home at an affordable price, our pre designed strawbale homes may be just what you're after.

Choose from one of our strawbale, poured earth, rammed earth and cob homes. You just choose the design from our range of architecturally drawn plans, choose the materials you like the most, 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. Afterall, it's taken us over ten years to be able to design solar passive earth homes which work. It's after having built our own homes for ourselves to work out what works the best.

Some people just want a strawbale home built for them. They want to choose a design, the finishings, colours and then in a few months time, move in, no more to worry about. 

These set-designs strawbale and earth homes take out the hard work for you. We've researched and practised to find the solar passively designed home which works and looks great. They meet the Australian Building Code of Australia, breeze through Council, comply with the CSIRO fire tests for building in bush fire prone areas.

What's more, our practises ensure your home is rugged and robust against the elements and is a cool house in summer and a warm house in winter. It's not rocket science, but it's taken us over a decade of experience and research to find out what works.

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

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3. Design & Build your own dream strawbale, cob, rammed earth home

If you prefer to create your own unique strawbale 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 on starting your own strawbale and earth home?

A lot of clients come to us needing help building their own strawbale and earth home. 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.

Photo Galleries of our homes:

Light straw and cob home in Blackheath >

Straw bale and cob home in Yarralumla >

Straw bale and cob home in Hazelbrook >

Straw bale, cob and poured earth home in Murrumbateman >

Beach house, straw bale house >

Straw bale and cob home in Lawson >

Straw bale homes >

Latest news, videos, info:

March 2012 - We've just finished another straw bale wall raising workshop with cob walls with Frank Thomas in Gemalla (near Bathurst in NSW). We had another group of keen, hard working people who didn't seem to ever stop working! Thank you!

We've just finished a straw bale wall raising workshop, which also included cob earth walls, with Frank Thomas in Canberra.Check out the photos on facebook>.

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