Wyrdwood Acres

Wyrdwood Acres Follow along our adventure as we embark on a self-building, self-funding straw bale house project wi

31/08/2024

Living offgrid in Spain comes with a few perks, and this time of year it's definitely Almonds!
for Spiced Honey Roasted Almonds you're gonna want:
2 1/2 cups raw almonds
3/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp pink salt
1/4 cup honey
1/8 cup brown sugar
mix salt and salt sugar, put to one side. melt honey in pan until runny, add almonds and mix til coated. spread out on lined baking tray in single layer, bake at 180c for 10 mins. remove and let cool for 5 mins, toss in bowl with salt/sugar mix then spread back out on baking tray and allow to fully cool. Enjoy! They get gobbled up real quick around here 😅

06/05/2024

It’s been a long time coming, but we finally moved in in January 🥰
We needed to take a little break and so forgive the radio silence. Were might be in, but we aren’t 100% finished with the house (let’s not even talk about the land yet) so we’re still planning on sharing our journey and all the stuff that’s to come!
Still pinching ourselves that we’ve gotten to this point where we can live here 💓

10/12/2023

Lime has been used for hundreds of years by humans in their dwellings to make natural, breathable walls for our living spaces.
Because our exterior walls are straw bale, we needed to ensure that moisture was kept to a minimum. We rendered our walls with Earth and then lime and have finished them using lime paint to add colour and personality to the spaces in our house.
Lime paint is breathable. It has a PH of 12, meaning it’s pest and mould resistant. It’s entirely natural, meaning no harmful chemicals will be leaching out into the air - in fact, the lime actually purifies the air as it cures, by taking carbon from the air.
Aside from those undoubtable plus points, the most obvious one to us was the aesthetics. We fell in love with how the lime paint looks once it’s cured on the walls. It’s nuanced, almost looking like velvet, with beautiful cloudy patches. t’s perfectly imperfect and ain’t that just this house in a nutshell?
Here we’re using Moorland. The first clip is after one coat when it’s still wet. The second clip is after coat 2, also still wet. And the last clips are when the walls are dried and cured.
This is our master bedroom and I’ve just fallen in love with this earthy colour 🤩
What do you think about lime paint? Would you use it?

Little walkthrough we filmed in November and am only just getting round to sharing 😬😆 Where are the days and weeks runni...
06/12/2023

Little walkthrough we filmed in November and am only just getting round to sharing 😬😆 Where are the days and weeks running off to?
Lots of progress, still a bit to go. A million little jobs that all take a million minutes.
Absolutely loving how the paint has come out on the lime walls 🤩

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0hJdYmtDn4/?igshid=NGEwZGU0MjU5Mw==

10/11/2023

Will this be the year we finally move in?

06/11/2023

November Update

03/11/2023

Bathroom installed

Lime painting is wild. The application, the consistency, the colour change as it dries.We’ve learnt a lot the last coupl...
08/10/2023

Lime painting is wild.
The application, the consistency, the colour change as it dries.
We’ve learnt a lot the last couple of weeks and worked with two different types of lime paint, one premixed and one in powder form that you mix yourself.
This is during the application of the first coat of lime paint in our daughters room. She chose the colour herself 🥰 You wouldn’t believe what it looks like when it’s dry.
This is in Borage.

19/09/2023

September catch up 😘

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