Strawbale Student Studio 2020

House Notes – Strawbale Student Studio

I wanted to create a “homegrown “ straw-bale eco friendly student studio for my children to live in. This straw-bale sustainable building is a demonstrations of how straw-bale builds can look and feel like any new modern dwelling.

I have tried to incorporate as many good building practices as possible, here are some of them.
* Using existing footprint
* Optimising house orientation
* Recycling
* Sustainable materials
* Excellent insulation
* Greywater collection and reuse
* Rainwater collection
* Solar energy
* Thermodynamic hot water
* Double glazing
* Led lighting

Strawbale for walls and wool for internal walls were grown on a small hobby farm we own in Wandering WA . Leftover straw!sand & lime returned to farm paddocks (bales used in the garden )

A big effort was made to reduce waste from the construction site no skip used.

* Recycled flooring for bathroom & kitchen
* Reused light in kitchen
* Reused melamine sheeting to make some cupboards
* Reused cables
* Reused birdmesh
* Reused lining boards for window seats & lighting shelf’s
* Salvaged blue metal in hand made paving
* Hand made laundry benchtop
* Recycled door frames
* Recycled shelving for architraves & skirting
* Recycled bricks (from original shed) used as driveway
* Reused handbasins and tap to bathrooms
* Reused shower screens
* Reused washing machine (from a caravan! )
* Reused flipmixer in Laundry
* Reused ironing board cabinet