Retired Art Teacher Sculpts Her Own Natural Building - Full Tour!

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! If you enjoy the video, be sure to like and subscribe! Follow us on Instagram @naturalbuildngs You can directly support the creation of this content by donating via 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! #naturalbuilding #naturalhome #greenbuilding