Living in a paper house
Why do I want to do this kind of thing?
http://www.livinginpaper.com/
We looked at straw-bale house-building awhile back, but in Kansas it becomes expensive too quickly... straw-bales can't be load-bearing walls because the snow gets too heavy. But apparently Papercrete bricks can.
I keep wanting to build my own home on the cheap, using recycled/reused material. I've got woodworking experience and I'm pretty "handy" in general... I've done electrical wiring, fixed a bit of plumbing, etc. I like to learn how to do new things. And I'd really like a crack at designing a home to my specifications... I'm tired of the "box house".
'course, Papercrete isn't exactly an approved load-bearing building material here. That seems to be the sticking point in most places... they end up putting up a traditional pole-structure roof and using Papercrete (or straw-bale) as in-fill. Unlike straw-bale, you can make an entire roof out of Papercrete... apparently, there are some homes with entirely untreated Papercrete roofs that simply soak up the rain, and then evaporate it out afterwards. The Papercrete is thick enough that it never soaks all the way through. And you can use Papercrete to build domes and arches, too.
I'm >this< close to looking for a piece of land out around Newton and seeing if Harvey County building codes will let me get away with building the house I want.