Natural Building on Vancouver Island,
B.C. Canada

Custom Built Homes & Structures with Natural Materials

Making your house an eye catching, heart warming, and spirit lifting home is as easy as mud!
If you are building a new home or wanting to remodel your existing one, natural building materials offer the perfect solution for manifesting your dream home. Don’t just make a house; create a home!

“Beautiful, creative, expressive, warm, artistic, welcoming, cozy, elegant, awe inspiring, dreamy, peaceful, serene.” These are just some of the many words that I have heard used to describe natural buildings. I have also heard many people say how “normal” they are.
A natural home is not a heap of dirt with a door and a crude wood stove. Natural homes are all of the above, and more.
Natural home designers and builders are very conscious of the landscape on which we build. Attention is given to designing each house with the landscape and with the home owners, ensuring that all three exist in harmony.

Earthen Built started out as a freelance adventure in order to increase accessibility and availability of natural building and to bring exceptional beauty into our built environment. Earthen Built is now a growing business that brings natural materials, artistic expression, and energy efficient design into the everyday lives of more and more people. We aim to build structures that are not only beautiful, creative, and artistic, but are also strong, safe, healthy, functional, designed wisely, and offer a financial and timely comparable alternative to conventional construction.

We enjoy and love what we do and are elated to share it with those who seek something  different than what conventional building has to offer.
We do have an alternative, and that alternative is Earth!

Specializing in natural building and artistic finishes, you can find us building homes, tiny houses, benches, earthen ovens, garden walls, studios, sculptures, and more with:

• cob
• strawbale
• slip n’chip
• light clay straw
• cobwood
• earthbags
• adobe
• clay wattle
• wattle & daub
• stone
• earthen floors
• clay & lime plasters

The joys of building with natural materials never leave us, no matter what we are building.

Consider the below when getting ready to build your own home:

All too often we hear people say how they would love to build with natural materials but that it takes way too long. This is usually the case when the builders are inexperienced and/or indecisive. As with any construction project; organization, skill, and professionalism are the deciding factors in a job done well, affordably, and timely . And by “affordably” we do not mean “cheap”; we mean “within a reasonable and realistic budget”.

Please don’t fall for the all-too-common belief that natural homes are cheap. There is a lovely rule-of-thumb that is never wrong. It states that one can choose to have the best of any 2 (two) of the following 3 (three) options, but may never have all three:

• Cost
• Time
• Quality

For example; if someone chooses to have great quality and to keep the time it takes to build something down, then it is going to cost them more. They will pay for better materials, and will most likely hire professionals and a crew to get things done within their time-line.
If one chooses high quality and less expenses, then it is most likely going to take them longer to reach the finish line. Materials may be found or salvaged (adding time to find them rather than just going and buying them), and the labour will most likely be done during the spare time of volunteers, friends, family, and themselves.
So please, as you consider constructing something, be realistic and honest with yourself and take the time to make good decisions at the beginning, it will save you in the end!