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After Seven Years Tiny, They Built a Straw-Bale and Cob Earth Home

Living Big In A Tiny House walks Brenna and Charlie’s earth home near Denmark, Western Australia — straw-bale insulation, cob thermal mass, and light earth, with an attached greenhouse. After seven years in tiny houses, they built it in an intentional permaculture community.

Cream earth-plaster house with a blue corrugated bay, timber-post porch, yellow shade sail, outdoor sink, and circular stepping stones near Denmark, Western Australia
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Video: Extraordinary Earth Home Brings the Permaculture Dream to Life. Channel: Living Big In A Tiny House. Uploaded February 13, 2026. Thirty minutes and forty-three seconds.

The still is the finished house: cream earth walls, a blue corrugated bay, a wide light roof, and a porch on rustic timber posts. A yellow shade sail and string lights sit under the overhang. Circular stepping stones cross the mulch to the patio.

The episode page names the outdoor sink. On the porch it is a dark basin on a timber stand, shoes on the shelf below, the garden right there.

What’s hard is the scale. They spent seven years in tiny houses. The pantry is “the same size as the tiny house truck they once lived in.” This house stays put, in a community near Denmark.

Brenna and Charlie standing between live-edge timber doorways in front of a built-in bookshelf, earth-plaster walls, a bed visible through the right door
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Inside, Brenna and Charlie stand between live-edge timber doorways. Earth-plaster walls, a built-in bookshelf packed with books and plants, a bed through the door on the right.

Straw bales stacked in a wall opening, a smiling couple in the frame during construction
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People mixing cob on a tarp on a grassy hillside, reddish earth pile and a blue barrel nearby
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Another still is cob on a tarp — people mixing it with their feet. The page names cob thermal mass, and light earth. Salvaged industrial double glazing shapes the front of the house. There is a homestead kitchen, plus a studio and guest accommodation.

Charlie’s music is at formidablevegetable.com.au. Brenna’s artwork is at brennaquinlan.com.

For another cob and straw-bale cabin on Tiny House Talk, see Tiny Straw Bale Cabin with Passive Solar Green Roof.

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Credit: Living Big In A Tiny House, “Extraordinary Earth Home Brings the Permaculture Dream to Life,” YouTube, February 13, 2026. Thirty minutes and forty-three seconds.

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Living Big In A Tiny HouseEpisode page · YouTube video · @livingbig · Instagram @livingbiginatinyhouse
Charlieformidablevegetable.com.au
Brennabrennaquinlan.com

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Alex Pino is the founder of Tiny House Talk, a leading resource on tiny homes and simple living since 2009. He helps readers discover unique homes, connect with builders, and explore alternative living.
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