The Mud Home explores the art and craft of building with natural materials. Clay, lime, natural fibres and traditional techniques create original, enduring, and deeply comfortable homes. 
Natural and Sustainable Construction - Earthen Interiors - Lime Applications 
"One of my favorite voices and innovators in the natural building world." Oliver Goshey, The Abundant Edge.

"The perfect resource for anyone looking to hand craft their own mud house." Interesting Engineering.

Learn Natural Building With Me

I'm committed to empowering people to build more naturally. I run plenty of workshops both online and off, with in-person workshops happening around the world. You can see the workshop list for 2026 here.

Mud Home Online Courses (Fully Downloadable)

"This course is worth every penny. It totally cleared everything up for me and gave me the confidence to get started with lime." Kirsty Henderson, author of Portugal from Scratch.

My Projects

If you want to browse my projects, I have a couple of galleries.
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My earthbag home in Turkey
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My stone and lime barn rebuild in Spain.
Atulya K Bingham is a natural builder, novelist and blogger. She also writes for Mother Earth News, and The Owner Builder Magazine. She runs earthbag building and earth plaster courses, both online and off.
You can listen to her on The Future is Beautiful, The Abundant Edge, and Free Her Spirit podcasts.
This website is a labour of love, and contains hundreds of free articles on natural building. I take no money for adverts. All the free information on this website has been donated by me and supported by the good people on Patreon. If you benefit from this material, do consider making a pledge to keep The Mud Home running.