Dan Durica, a longtime resident of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri, built his own straw bale home for about $15,000 and ...

"I want it to look very conventional. People who think about straw-bale houses think they're very hippie or very unconventional," said Wolff, who runs an interior design business, Design Council. But ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- How far would you go to get a house that only costs $1.25 a day to heat in the winter? Better question: Would you live in a house built with straw bales? That idea, which began in ...

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 ...