Diy cordwood cabin

There are some very creative folks doing wonderful work. Here are a few cordwood outbuildings that are both functional, beautiful and built with best practices.Aspen Valley Ranch in Colorado (Ryan …

Lots of people dream of building a homestead from scratch, but worry about the cost to do so. Is it expensive? How can you reduce your cost? We'll explore the cost to build a homestead from scratch, including our experience building a cordwood house on raw land.

Cordwood Construction - How to choose, dry, and use the best wood for your cordwood building. How to DRY your wood to 12% moisture content.

Adam & Erica Konopka and their children started building a Cordwood Cabin near the shores of Lake Michigan this past summer. The cabin has 24″ thick walls with foam insulation in the cent…

If you want to build a cordwood home that will last for generations, it is vital to prepare your logs correctly. In this post you'll learn exactly what to do to prep logs for cordwood building.

Larry Schuth shared his cordwood cabin adventure. He sent beautiful pictures of the cordwood cabin he and his family built for $9,000 in the 1990s. The basic cabin is 20′ x 30′ with a 30′ x 10′ loft. Just right for bringing family and friends for a visit. The upstairs bedroom is a wonderful place […]

We built a cordwood house with our own hands on 16 acres of raw land. Learn how we got here, how we built it, how we live off the grid, and how you can do it too. Explore the site for loads of information on cordwood building and starting a homestead froms scratch.

In our small hometown in Alaska, I am frequently stopped by those who wish to compare, share or query me

Cordwood Construction - Mistakes that beginners often make. How to prepare your materials & avoid making errors while building with cordwood.

Cordwood building is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using mortar or cob to...

Little Fish Woodworks was founded in 2004 by Steve Berg and Matt Hale of Michigan. Having both worked in the building profession, they realized the benefit of each other’s expertise and experience and decided to form a partnership. The sauna is one of their projects and was built for a client near Traverse City, Michigan. […]

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Richard Flateau built a cordwood home 35 years ago as an eco-friendly way to live mortgage free.

While we began to cut down the cedar trees and drag them out of the woods, we also worked on our house plan. Before we actually moved to the property, my dad and my husband had begun building piers out of stone for our eventual house. We knew that they couldn't be used with a cordwood house, so when my dad had a backhoe on the property doing some work, we hired the man to dig out the foundation area for our future cordwood house. Having him already on the spot did save us a couple of hundred…