What's Adobe? (Short answer: sun-dried mud) Adobe is a traditional building material used for millennia in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest, where the pueblo people used it to construct their homes well before the Spanish came. Taos Pueblo, which is built entirely out of adobe, is the oldest, continuously inhabited dwelling place in North America. Adobe is usually made out of earth, sand, straw, and water, which is mixed into "mud," formed into bricks, and baked in the sun. Bricks come in all sizes, but we prefer the 4x10x14 size. We used to make our own bricks, but once business picked up we started buying them from Mel's in Espanola. Affordable? Traditional adobe building is very labor intensive: it involves digging the dirt, hauling the water, mixing the mud, forming the bricks, and then of course building the house. Nowadays, unless a family is willing to do all the labor of harvesting and gathering themselves, and some still do, they have to buy the materials, and pay people to do the labor. Adobe has become the most expensive building medium compared to frame and stucco homes or manufactured homes, and adobe homes have been priced out of the range of local working families, becoming 'luxury' homes for out-of-towners or wealthy newcomers. We are reversing this trend by making adobe homes affordable to local working folks because we are willing to take a smaller profit margin than most contractors in order to realize both our dream - to sustain traditional, ecological, building - and yours, to own an adobe home. We care about the long-term consequences of how a community lives and works. This means living by a sustainable business ethic. Affordable Adobe will build you a "no frills", "4 corner" adobe home or studio to your floor plan for $145.00 per square foot. Included in this custom home are Walls: Adobe Exterior-Frame Interior • Interior and Exterior Plaster • Visions 2000 Thermopane Windows • Radiant Floor Heating • Basic Electricity and Plumbing • Bri Roof • Tongue and Groove Aspen on Viga Ceilings • Saltillo Tile in Bathrooms and Kitchen. (Extras subject to change orders.)