Category Archives: Background

Books about cob building

By mpomo | Published: November 29, 2011
I’ve fancied trying my hand at building with cob for quite some time. I’m not bold, brave or foolish(!?) enough to consider a large project but I’d like to give it a go in the form of a small shed / hut / out-house – that was part of the reason I started this site. [...]
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Colour Scheme

By mpomo | Published: March 9, 2010
As a slight diversion from the usual I thought I’d go into some background on what has gone into the building of this website. The colour scheme is derived from one of the photographs that I took of the ‘prospective’ site for my place back in September 2009. That derivation was done by a nifty [...]
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My Place Of My Own – ‘hello world’

By mpomo | Published: October 6, 2009
Unashamedly inspired by the book A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan, this site follows my journey into designing and maybe even constructing my own little piece of reality. Having undertaken a barn conversion project as client, project manager, sometime designer, odd-job-man, tiler, pointer etc. etc. I came to better [...]
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