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How did this Swedish room from 1725 achieve modern levels of fire safety without plasterbords, mold free draught free walls without plastic housewrap? By sealing the indoor walls with a mud-straw slurry. Free, carbon negative, recyclable for ever and ever. #TraditionalInteriors 
This Swedish room from the 1790s is even fancier, still uses exactly the same materials for its construction, but minus the wallpaper. Tests have shown that when walls covered in a sufficient amount of clay is subjected to a fire, it just turns to brick. #TraditionalInteriors
The whole house is absolutely gorgeous. Built in solid timber in 1725 as a shop with a large backyard. Interior restored to how it would have looked in 1840, a printing shop.
Up until the 1929 the exterior was covered in paneling, a cheap and easy way to add further insulation, protection for the timber walls, and it also made the house seem more "city respectable". Here it is in 1900, 1926 and 2010.
