Man Builds This Hobbit Style House From Scratch For Just £150

Resourceful Michael Buck created the "cob" home at the bottom of his garden using an ancient building technique. Ex-art teacher Michael, a smallholder near Oxford, used only natural or recycled materials... and not a single power tool.

The floorboards were rescued from a skip and the windows came from an old lorry windscreen. Dad-of-three Michael also carried huge bundles of reeds on his back to avoid leaving a carbon footprint and taught himself how to thatch.