You might well ..
And if you'd asked me twenty five years ago, when I first started out with serious intent upon this escapade, I probs would have had fantasies about building a hand crafted cob house, or using rammed earth, strawbales, hempcrete, making an 'earthship' or some other homespun type affair..
Like some MASSIVE hippy..🙂🌈
Nowadays I'm just interested in simple, easy to clean, affordable, pleasant to live in, and ecologically sound, without too much hassle to build..
Timber frame, timber clad , with loads of insulation, solar panels etc etc will do just fine.
Plus this sort of thing is much easier to get through building regs, and past the planning dept too..
It's hard enough as is convincing them to allow a house, without going down the knit your own knickers route.. 🙄