Have you ever seen a cottage – a straw roofed house?
By the name of civilization or modernization, these types of houses are seen only in a memorial park (or a museum of history).
When I was a child, I had seen a small thatched house near my grandpa’s house. Its wall was built by mixture of soil (maybe clay) and straw, roof was thatched by straw. I could smell the earth and the sun from the house. It was nature itself. What an environmentally friendly building it was!
Thatched houses were, and still are very popular in the UK. They are now very expensive to maintain and of course are great fire risks, but there are still thousands of houses like that around England. Historically people would use the materials around them whereas now they are just seen as beautiful.
ReplyDeleteOne thing is true, thatched houses are full of spiders...
I agree with Stuart that're full of spider. However, it is another way to have an experience with nature. It sounds interesting If it don't have insects.
ReplyDeleteIn Japan, we can see these type of house in some province.
ReplyDeleteThe place kept traditional Japanese lifestyle.
In the winter season, it snows a lot.