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A grand design

'Better to live with a laugh in a house of straw, than to live with a frown in a castle...' Chinese proverb
Between September 2003 and July 2004, a crack team of professionals, semi-pros, friends and amateurs created Maison Sampson.


Channel 4's Grand Designs team followed the construction of our ecological straw-bale house, which overlooks the former Viscomte de Turenne’s glorious territory in the northern Lot, SW France.

Writer, DJ, househusband, dog-walker and honorary ‘man of straw’, I have created this website to tell you more about:

·        The construction itself

·        The sponsors who made it possible

·        My own work

 
Find out how to order a free introduction and sample chapter of my book of the build, Bloody Murder on the Dog’s Meadow.

Find out about taking part in a course here in 2011.

You can also read my blog about daily life on the ‘dog’s meadow’. It's updated weekly.
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