Four million people watched Ben Law’s extraordinary wooden house grow from its West Sussex woodland on the third series of Grand Designs. This book brings that construction process to life. Beautiful photographs illustrate the unique uncompromising design and build of Ben’s house in the woods, from the round wood frames, straw bale walls, oak cladding and chestnut shingle clad roof. With no services Ben describes his wind turbines, solar panels and reed bed waste systems. This is a truly sustainable house, built with love and the help of 96 different volunteers. Ben offers in a house a philosophy of life that is at one with the woodland from which it grew. With pictures to inspire and appendices full of technical detail this is a book for the heart and the head and a must for any potential self-builder, even if it’s only a shed in the back garden!