by Richard Flatau | Aug 2, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
Tom Huber has been building cordwood for a long time. He sold his beautiful cordwood home in Watervilet, Michigan in 2005 when he moved to take a teaching position at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Once he found some suitable land...
by Richard Flatau | Jul 14, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
If you are interested in finding out more about cordwood construction go to: www.corwdoodconstruction.org or...
by Richard Flatau | Jun 25, 2012 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Off grid, Tiny home, Workshop
A 30 metal pole barn gets a face lift using cordwood slices and slab siding. The building transformation is remarkable. transformation of the metal garage. The theme of the article is taking old, faded metal sheds and making them attractive with an easily applied...
by Richard Flatau | May 3, 2012 | Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
These pictures are from a Polish website called Organica. This is a log home building company that has started using cordwood infill in between heavy log framing. The log wall in the picture has cob for the mortar matrix and is colored with potter’s dyes....
by Richard Flatau | Apr 22, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building
When thinking about building with cordwood, there are many questions to be asked and answered, but the most important is: Is this natural building technique for me? To sort this out, why not gather some wood and mortar mixings, make a framework and have a go at it....
