Paula Sunshine, 42, has gathered up her raw material from local hairdressers as well as using her own and her dogs. The expert craftswoman and author teaches traditional building techniques to builders, owners of old homes and those interested in tried and tested construction methods.
But Miss Sunshine decided to substitute cattle hair in her lime render mixture with human hair when she came to extend her thatched 16th century home. The new extension not only has her own hair mixed into the walls but also those of her pet dogs.
She is also planning to use human hair as she carries out renovation work to the rest of her magnificent timber-framed house. Ms Sunshine, of Lawshall, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, said: “I do wattle and daub here using straw and the lime render on the outside is lime plaster and hair.
“Traditionally people would use cattle hair from long-haired cattle. ”But we don’t get many long-haired cattle around here any more so I use human hair.”
Telegraph (thanks, Kirsty)
Wow… If that house ever burn down, it’s really gonna smell BAD!
Mental….. let’s hope it doesn’t catch fire, the smell of burning hair is yuck. What a cool name she’s got though! x
That’s just…um…disturbing.
I don’t think I could touch that much human hair, makes me feel weird.
Miss Sunshine, what a brilliant name!
how long before she tires of jokes about hair extensions.
This makes me want to retch
But clever idea.
Is it just me or is this slightly odd. In fact it makes me feel rather nauseous for some reason!!!!!! Wonder if she would like the contents of my daily hairbrush cleaning!!!
Didn\’t know this site existed, but bookmarking for future ref. Very interested in what you do, its amazing.
WOAH, thats weird. But strangely cool
Clever although if everyone decides to do this there is going to be a lot of bald people and dogs around!
She had to be called Paul Sunshine, didn’t she?
To see that would be hair-raising.
OK…………….cause that’s what you build houses out of……
Is mentioning hair extensions too obvious?
Yukkiey…what if the Hair starts to grow’??
Wow.
I’ve heard of people doing some pretty strange things with hair – jumpers made out of dog hair, a bikini made from the hair of a German Shepherd, a waistcoat made out of human hair, and a man who had a pillow made out of his pet dog’s hair to put in his casket when he died – but this is most definitely the strangest!
hair raising! hope she isnt doing the roof, I hate heights, be a bit hairy up there for me. God i’m bored!
that’s a bit disgusting?D: idk but I wouldn’t like my house to be built out of hair
I’d maybe have hung onto my hair if I were her… Oh I know, bitchy bitchy.
That makes me feel quite queasy….!
I would love to see CSI try to solve a murder in that house.. DNA orgie!
Is this what’s meant by ‘hair extensions’?
What a wierd woman! but not as wierd as this … http://alturl.com/qsbm!
what a hair-raising tale!
What if she develops an allergy to dogs?
I did not know that they actually used hair in walls. I just read that they used this to make it stronger, prevend it from falling down to soon, the plaster.
Human hair .. a bit sad for those who are in bad need of wigs, or hair extensions, but hey .. Also, traditional methods are not always recommended I guess, to be reused nowadays. Traditional and environmental friendly, okay .. but it should also be safe and practicle I think. And solid. But hey, who cares, even if people want to use cow manure or such ;.. who am I to say that they can’t do that.
She might be into voodoo though yes, I think that is the real reason for all that human hair … she’s going to take over the town she lives in …
Do you have to condition it or what?
that is truly horrible but cool 2. what a name
Well, people DID used to build their houses out of pig poo…I guess human and dog hair was just next on the list!
I want to be called Miss Sunshine
Did she get married and divorced or discover feminism between paragraphs 1 and 2? Miss to Ms.
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Does she not learn anything from the three little pigs?
(Big bad wolf will so just huff and puff and blow her house down – bricks people, build your house from bricks)
I’m stuck on the Mechanical’s from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’…
‘Oh wall, oh sweet and lovely wall… whose stones with lime and hair knit up in thee’…
Bah for being an English teacher…