Ever since I read Nadir Khalili's book on making one's own house out of cermaics, I have totally wanted to build my own house. I have studied Earth Ships. I have build cob structures and daub structures in parks and nature preserves. I have really explored this issue.

I've seen how these things go. I mean they usually look kind of sci-fi, like the house Luke Skywalker lived in on Tatooine, but think about how cool it would be to be able to build your own ceramic house, go back over it, daub it with cement. I thought about daubing it with clay and firing it again, but it would be so cool to replace some of the bricks with those glass bricks, like just sprinkle glass bricks into the construction, especially if I use mostly vaulted ceilings. Sunny days would see beams of light reaching down into every room. Windows would still cost a lot, I have lived in some places with crap windows and some places with good windows, and they are totally worth the expense, especially if I build it someplace cold and want to use a thermal mass like an Earth Ship, then I will want nice windows to keep the warmth in. I would also want a nice basement, but maybe that can just be cement, like maybe I could hire someone to build a foundation and basement, but then lighting the basement becomes an issue. I've seen people use fiber optics to bring sunlight into dark rooms, like inside rooms in sky scrapers, but I don't know how expensive fiber optic cable is right now, and how much sunlight it actually brings in, because maybe the ceiling of the basement / floor of the house could be the thermal mass which could be awesome (floor radiates warmth) or could suck (basement becomes a sauna). But that would totally depend upon how much sunlight you can bring into the basement with fiber optics, which could be too little. I haven't researched it yet.

I just feel like, unless you make it yourself you can't get what you really want, and it may turn out when I do all the research I just get those guys who build concrete domes to build me a concrete dome house.

Vietnamese Spring roll

Infected Mushrooms

And those things. These are super easy to make and we just toss a whole dozen or more of them in a cooler and drive!