speaking of walls

Since I mentioned walls, if might be interesting to mention here that we are planning on covering one wall of the lower 20 footer with either adobe blocks (if we can get them made) or else cob (one step less). This will be an interior wall that will act as a trombe wall or heat storage unit. It will be partly in the glassed-in entry and partly in the living room area which will also receive a lot of light. The hope is that at least some of the time in the cooler months, it will receive enough sunlight to warm it up and then it will transmit it's warmth back, both into the living room space as well as the bedroom which shares that common wall. In addition we plan to put a wood stove against that wall, perhaps with a coil on it, which we would use to circulate hot water through the lower part of the wall. That would allow the wall to absorb the radiant heat from the stove as well as the conduction heat from the hot water. We'll see how all of this works out.