GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get more retro than this: a thatched roof, ...

Q. I have an 11-year-old house in Tewksbury I built myself. It has a hand-split, rough-sawn, cedar-shingle roof. When it was first installed, and every two to three years since, I have had Penofin ...

Thatch roofs are a traditional building technology in Ecuador for good reason – they keep a home cool and the reeds can be sourced locally. Unfortunately, thatch has become much harder to acquire as ...

THE MAIN TOURIST ATTRACTION HERE IN MANNING WAS IN NEED OF A HAIRCUT. BUT IT TURNS OUT THAT IS NO EASY TASK. WELCOME TO THE CENTURIES OLD HOUSE BARN, A RELIC BROUGHT FROM GERMANY TO MANNING BACK IN ...

YOD Group has drawn inspiration from traditional Ukrainian architecture to build guesthouses with thatched roofs and clear ...

How does a thatch roof work and why don’t they leak? When visiting northern Uganda last week, I asked a wise soul, whose name was Francis, how a thatch roof actually worked. Francis’s nephew, Erick, ...

The very first so-called mushroom home that Earl Young built in Charlevoix is being re-built with a special thatch roof. We’ve been showing you the progress on the project, and now that it’s nearly ...

It will take about 750 leaves to make this roof.“This type of thatching is absolutely waterproof once complete and leaves the interior of the house ten degrees cooler than a modern-day house.”The ...

The custom of continuing to thatch farm buildings with rye straw throughout the 19th and into the 20th century was among the most intriguing. This traditional craft was handed down ...