Looking up at beautiful Rattlesnake Butte (Champ-a te or Cham-o-tee in the local Kalapuyan language,) this Willamette Valley home is wrapped in walls of straw bale and plasters of lime. The linseed oil and earth floor is partially composed of site soil, known locally as “the grey panther.” The straw bales were all stacked during a week long workshop and camp out in cooperation with strawbale.com. Other notable features include locally-sourced alder window seats, a live-edge walnut bar top, embedded floor tiles fashioned by one of the homeowners and a viewing loft constructed by the other homeowner using an Ash pole cleared during the construction process.
