Thankyou this is a useful link, very informative.
I wondered if the different techniques are to suit the climate, wet and cool or hot and dry, or more extremes of hot and cold within the year? Also wondered if they are more vulnerable to insect or rodent infestation and penetration? The propenents don't seem to mention that.
I'm a bit of a "
mud pie"
person myself, as a child I loved to play in clay stream beds or near the foot of cliffs moulding the clay to divert the water into different shaped courses with little dams and pools, trickles and rapids and waterfalls. Later on moulding concrete by hand into the shapes I wanted in our children's play areas. The temptation to buy a suitable plot and build a mud brick house hovers, I like curved shapes in homes. Or a straw bale house, or a mixture. I used to think if I ever built a straw bale house I might incorporate a sofa base or two and make the cushions to fit them, maybe even a bed base if I'm feeling adventurous.
When our children were babies there were no such things as changing units, but I got my husband to build a range of wooden furniture including a box shape in the top of an open cabinet, in which I put a plastic baby bath and sealed round it with sloping Polyfiller finished off with mosaic tiles and grouted. I got him to cut a drain hole in the plastic bath and fit a proper drain waste, but we never got as far as bringing water pipes, I filled it with a bucket from the bathroom. Our midwife and health visitors were blown away by it and when we came to move, it virtually sold the house for us!
The more pictures I see of traditional Bulgarian interiors (and outdoor kitchens) the more I think this country is for me!