You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow Amanda Goh Every time Amanda publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox!

Richard Venberg owned a custom furniture/cabinet shop in Colorado when he took a major step toward becoming an architect and one of Minnesota’s leading advocates of straw-bale construction. “Basically ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - When Dana Richardson heard that someone in the San Luis Valley had two semi-truck loads of baled straw to dump, she knew just what to do with it. Build a house. Big Bad Wolf ...

Interior designer Marcia Wolff wanted a house that's energy-efficient, ecologically sensitive, fire-resistant and, above all, beautiful. So she chose a building material that might surprise some ...

A home that’s being built in Minneapolis is unconventional because of what the owners are putting in its walls. Peter Schmitt and his wife, Katie, are building a home with straw inside the walls. They ...

A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of prefabricated straw bale panels. The house, which its builders believe is the ...