Living in a clay house

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Many people who know us look strange when they hear that we live in a clay farm in Hungary (similar to the one in the photo below). During our search for a suitable home, many even advised us not to choose a clay house. The association with such a house is, for many, that of a poor shelter, often somewhat dilapidated with crooked windows and doors and with cracks in the walls. A bit similar to a plaggenhut like you used to encounter on the Peel and in Drenthe. At best, such a clay house has undergone a thorough renovation, replacing at least part of it with 'real' stone walls and a new tiled roof with insulation boards.

Robust building material

Nevertheless, clay has been used for centuries as the main building material, especially in regions where there were few building materials available. Similarly, in the region where we now live in the south of Hungary. Most older houses and farms are at the end of the nineteenth century or early twentieth century