by Richard Flatau | Oct 1, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building
This article is by Grant Nicholson from Owen Sound, Ontario. He has agreed to let it be posted in order to help people learn about Slipforming, Double-Wall cordwood and Frost Protected Shallow Foundations with cordwood. Thank you, Grant. Slip Form and Cordwood: Old...
by Richard Flatau | Sep 7, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Jesse & Kit are living in a 768 sq. ft. tiny cordwood home they built, in central Wisconsin. It has a very smartly designed room-in-the-attic truss that adds an additional 360 feet of living space (2 bedrooms, 1/2 bath). Using best practices throughout, they...
by Richard Flatau | Aug 19, 2019 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
An FYI for people who might be in the market for land with a cabin. Here is a cordwood cabin (with timber frame, straw/clay slip and board and batten) on 35 acres of land in western Wisconsin (Glenwood City), near the border with Minnesota. [This property is sold.]...
by Richard Flatau | Aug 11, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Do you love the taste of Maple Syrup? Would you like to have your own Cordwood Maple Sugar Shack? Ted Amman answered YES to both questions. He wanted to build a “shack” to house his family maple syrup harvest. Ted attended a cordwood workshop, visited...
by Richard Flatau | Jul 31, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Sebastien Demers built a beautiful two-story cordwood home near Ste. Onesime, Quebec. Here are pictures and an explanation of “the build” from Sebastien himself. The half-round/half rectangle floor plan also has two interior gardens where a banana tree flourishes...
