We set out to build a real Hobbit-style house using only mud, natural materials, and our hands. What started as a simple idea turned into a full underground shelter built into the earth. No machines, ...

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WOODFIN, NC (CNN NEWSOURCE) – A couple in North Carolina is building an Airbnb “to rule them all.” Mike Parrish and his wife are building a ‘hobbit hole’ home based on the ones in the “Lord of the ...

The creations of natural-materials builder Brett LeCompte of Dolores are featured in the 2017 architecture book, Small Homes: The Right Size by Lloyd Kahn. Several pages display LeCompte’s straw-bale ...

Watch these primitives take on the challenge of building an underground hobbit-style shelter with a swimming pool and ...

The boys spent three months building the structure, made of wooden pallets and dirt from their backyard. Of all the pandemic projects undertaken by kids under quarantine, the “Cobthedral” that three ...