Tierra Concepts

Southwestern handcrafted furniture and custom homes Santa Fe



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Adobe is still one of the most widely used green materials in Santa Fe home building. There is something innately obvious about using the earth from the locale as the main ingredient in making a shelter or home. The use of adobe goes as far back as 2000 BC in northern Africa and has remained relatively unchanged over the millennia. There are many methods of using mud to make walls, differing mostly in how it is placed. Sometimes it is cobbled together in globs or clumps, sometimes it is ...