Beautiful, sustainable, personal and comfortable — with earthen floors, being green has never felt so good. Over three hands-on days you will pour, burnish and finish a real earthen floor from start to finish, guided every step of the way.

Led by Sukita Reay Crimmel — author of Earthen Floors, Second Edition: A Modern Approach to an Ancient Practice.

What you’ll learn

Preparing the space — assessing and readying the sub-floor

Tools & mixing — the kit, and how to mix base and finish

Application — laying both the base floor and the finish floor

Burnishing & finishing — compacting to a smooth, durable surface

Oiling, waxing & repairs — sealing, buffing and maintaining the floor

The three days

Day 1 (9am–5pm): Preparing the space and pouring a finish earthen floor.

Day 2 (9am–5pm): Burnishing the finish floor, plus an illustrated talk on other types of installation.

Day 3 (9am–2pm): Demonstrations of oiling, waxing and buffing earthen floors.

Your teacher

Sukita Reay Crimmel has installed earthen floors with local soils around Portland, Oregon since 2006 and is one of the field’s leading practitioners. She is the developer of Claylin — the first ready-made earthen floor product in North America — and co-author of Earthen Floors, Second Edition.

Fee & booking

€450 per person. Tools and all materials are provided — just come ready to work, in clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. Places are limited and booked on a first-come basis.

To reserve your place, call Jimmy on 086 836 3151 or email info@theorganichomestore.com.