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To: KLP who wrote (106201)	7/18/2003 5:01:38 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi KLP; Re: "... small mud homes ..." If you want to live comfortably in a hot dry environment, and you don't have enough money for an air conditioner, an "adobe" or "mud" home is the best alternative. They are cool during the day and warm at night. They need to be shielded from the rain in all but the most arid places. This is generally done with a coating of stucco. In fact, it's illegal to build with anything other than mud bricks in the central part of Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico (USA). Example pictures: Iraq mud house (4th picture from top): m17n.cool.ne.jp USA mud house: gocalifornia.about.com Americans mixing mud with straw to make mud bricks: nmculturenet.org Americans forming mud bricks by hand: nmculturenet.org "Made in USA" mud bricks drying in sun: nmculturenet.org Fancy US home being built with mud bricks: nmculturenet.org Family stuccoing their mud brick home in US: nmculturenet.org Where I see differences in architecture between the "Santa Fe" style and Iraq is that New Mexico has more wood, so the Iraqis tend towards the tin roofs. As it turns out, I know a guy who attended grad school (in the US) while living in a "mud" house with a tin roof. In addition, his house did not have a coating of plaster / stucco, so it did have issues when it rained. He rented it from the owner. -- Carl P.S. You want to try living in a "mud home"? Here's a bed and breakfast in Taos New Mexico (USA), prices between $120 and $215 per night, double occupancy: taosadobe.com