hey everyone we're here on Main Island
in British Columbia and we're checking
out the Cobb cottage this is a two-story
800 square foot cottage and it was built
with Cobb which is a fantastic natural
building material and Cobb is just a
simple mixture of sand clay and straw
this is the very first Cobb house in
British Columbia that's fully permitted
and load-bearing and it was built in
1999 by Cobb Works we actually found out
about this building on Airbnb and it's
the fourth-most wish listed property on
all of Airbnb around the world so it's
really interesting for us to see how
much interest there is and natual
buildings like this so let's go take a
look inside we're going to give you a
quick tour when you come in there's the
main entrance here and the washroom is
just down the hall over there and this
is the main living area in addition to
using Cobb for the walls they've used
other natural materials so there's a
nice stone floor natural wood for the
railing and other pieces of furniture
there's two different sources of heat in
this house there's electric baseboards
and they do have a fireplace this house
is on the grid so they do have a well
septic tank and it is plugged into power
if you come around here is the kitchen
there's a simple little bar fridge down
there over here there's a little eating
nook this kitchen has lots of nice
counter space and a ton of light coming
from the windows and there's even a
skylight right above the sink
and then there's a pantry right here
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so now we're upstairs in the bedroom and
I think my favorite part about this is
that there's two doors and two separate
balconies again there's some really nice
lighting in here there's several
porthole windows on the side of the bed
there's a really big skylight and then
tons of Windows all around another
really nice feature is this curved roof
rafter and a nice wooden ceiling and
then over here there's a pretty
miniature desk area and the closet and
there's also a nice big bed here with
built-in storage pretty much all around
it
there's a nice bathroom here with
everything you need and definitely the
coolest part of the bathroom is the
shower they've built a little nook it's
almost kind of like a mini cave for your
shower and a nice slat wooden floor what
I really like is that all the walls and
surfaces are rounded and it gives the
space a really nice organic feel and
that's what I really love about Cobb as
a building material is that you can be
creative and sculpt it to build really
unique and beautiful spaces like this if
you want to learn more about Cobb we
made a longer more in-depth video about
this amazing natural building material
we put a link in the description of this
video if you want to check it out
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