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Cordwood Dream Home Shines Brightly in Virginia

by Richard Flatau | Jan 21, 2025 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Cordwood Dream Home Shines Brightly in Virginia Winona and Donnie share details about their wonderful cordwood creation in Virginia. This is both a work of art and a cordwood home built using Best Practices. Since the house site is in the 100 yr flood zone we had...

Square Cordwood Sauna

by Richard Flatau | Jan 7, 2025 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Off grid, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

The Story of the Square Cordwood Sauna in Minnesota by Charles Yeager Cordwood Instructor In October of 2023, I was helping clear the Banadad Ski Trail, near the Gunflint Trail in Northern Minnesota, to ready it for cross-country skiers. One of the volunteers, who...

Cordwood Wave House in Nova Scotia (update) 10 Years After

by Richard Flatau | Dec 8, 2024 | cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Wave house in Nova Scotia by Michael Fuller. [Update] Michael sent me a few pictures of his beautiful cordwood cabin in Nova Scotia about 10 years ago. His photos have been very well received and admired by folks researching cordwood. He has recently sent an...

Opening a Cordwood Wall with the MudGirls

by Richard Flatau | Nov 10, 2024 | Alternative Building, Cob, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Tiny home | 0 Comments

How to Break Open a Wall in a Cordwood House by Peter Kulich The cordwood cabin we bought in 2015 was lovely – and listed in Lloyd Khan’s Builders of the Pacific Northwest. Nestled in the trees it was sheltered from the worst of the beach weather and never...

Cordwood Finds Another Way

by Richard Flatau | Oct 27, 2024 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Off grid, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Dennis Laper built this cordwood cabin (pictures below) AFTER he constructed a gorgeous Stackwall Garden Shed. He built the "Stackwall Corners" first and used them like corner posts. The Stackwall Garden Shed The posts, trusses, and roof were installed and then...

Magnificent Cordwood in Missouri

by Richard Flatau | Sep 26, 2024 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Tiny home, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Bob and Deb Gallamore build a Cordwood Dream home in Fairdealing, Missouri by Bob Gallamore We are Bob and Deb, a couple of 70’s kids who grew up loving nature and feeling a real connection to the woods. We also tend to prefer things that are unique and don’t feel a...

Modern Cordwood Off-Grid Home from a Recycled Barn

by Richard Flatau | Sep 20, 2024 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Off grid, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Modern Cordwood Off-Grid Home from a Recycled Barn by Todd Ashley Todd Ashley (cleaning a log) had a dream to build a modern, off-grid cordwood home in Michigan. Little...

Cordwood Construction (Cobwood) Earthmovesdesign UK

by Richard Flatau | Sep 9, 2024 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Workshop | 0 Comments

Earthmovesdesign Based in Suffolk, England, and established in 1996, earthmovesdesign belongs to Neil and Emi-Lou Lankford. Neil designs and makes gardens, Water features, and natural Cobwood Garden Rooms, and kid's play dens and has worked with both the private and...

Cordwood Sauna Little Fish WoodWorks

by Richard Flatau | Sep 4, 2024 | Alaska, Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

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...

Cordwood Construction Timber Framed Idaho

by Richard Flatau | Aug 17, 2024 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Blood, sweat and tears went into planning this incredible building in the western Rockies. The owner wishes to remain anonymous, so I cannot provide her name or location. It is architecturally drawn and code approved and when finished will offer the owner/builder a...