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The windows of a properly constructed straw-bale house must be appealing...big wide sills, wide enough to sit on.

Since the SW lacks plentiful wood, this construction technique caught my interest as an innovative "make do" kind of effort, rather than environutty self-indulgence. A pity it's been dealt such a setback.

Since the SW lacks plentiful wood...

Only in the fact that the greenies won't let us cut it.

55 posted on 05/10/2003 3:35:06 PM PDT by uglybiker (Fishing: The only sport one can engage in while sitting down and drinking beer....I like to fish.)

..."The windows of a properly constructed straw-bale house must be appealing...big wide sills, wide enough to sit on"...

You are right - the windows in such a house are wonderful. Very often people will put cushions on the extra wide sills and they do actually sit there. The walls, windows, and doorways in a properly constructed straw bale house are very similar in appearance to an older adobe house (the walls are often thicker in older adobe houses than in newer adobes).

I think my wife will not count her life as complete until we build and live in at least one straw bale house here in New Mexico.