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Cordwood Conference 2011 Winnipeg, Canada

by Richard Flatau | Sep 2, 2018 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Continental Cordwood Conference 2011 University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada June 11-12, 2011 This was the first sight we encountered as we crossed the border from North Dakota...

Best Woods for Cordwood

by Richard Flatau | Aug 24, 2018 | Alaska, Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

One of the most Frequently Asked Cordwood Questions is: "What type of wood can I use?" At one time, the answer was, "Anything you got." But over time folks realized that there were good, better, and best options for wood selection. To narrow down your choices let's...

Cordwood Cabin with a Rock Wall & Cordwood Tables

by Richard Flatau | Aug 15, 2018 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Monte Loomis built a gorgeous cordwood floor in his octagonal cordwood cabin. He proceeded to add a rock wall (fire resistance for his wood stove), cabinet doors made of birch bark, and cordwood tables. In the top right-hand corner, you can see birch bark used as...

Hungarian Cordwood by Tamas Abel

by Richard Flatau | Aug 14, 2018 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Workshop | 0 Comments

Tamas recently sent some new photos of his finished cordwood cabin in Hungary. Thank you Tamas for sharing your creative work of building a cordwood cabin. His logs are pine, cut from the surrounding forest and he did the work on weekends. He has made himself a...

Cordwood classroom houses Cloud Forest Conservation in Guatemala

by Richard Flatau | Aug 11, 2018 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Tara & Rob Cahill have been working in the rain forests near Coban, Guatemala for decades. They have built a beautiful infrastructure that includes a cordwood school for middle and high school students. Here is a brief walkthrough video by the architect Charles...

Cordwood Flooring Jig Saw Puzzle Method

by Richard Flatau | Aug 10, 2018 | Alaska, Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Monte Loomis sent pictures and a video of his new method of laying cordwood flooring. Needless to say, I was blown away by the beauty of his self-described "Jig-Saw Puzzle method." "For my end grain floor, I used 3/4 inch-thick white cedar. Each piece was cut to fit...

Cordwood Flooring by Sunny in sunny Arizona

by Richard Flatau | Aug 7, 2018 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building | 0 Comments

Sunny Pettis Lutz send some photos of her gorgeous, hand-made cordwood floor. The following is a detailed list of how they made their floor with legal pickings from the state forest. "Go out to the forest and harvest dead trees. In our area that means Juniper and...

Cordwood Cabin (24″ thick walls) is energy efficient

by Richard Flatau | Jul 4, 2018 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, log end, Natural Building | 0 Comments

Editor's Note: This post has consistently been among the Top 5 most popular (on my site) and I have added new photos and new details to the original. Adam & Erica Konopka and their children started building a Cordwood Cabin near the shores of Lake Michigan. The...

Off Grid Cordwood Cabin

by Richard Flatau | Jul 3, 2018 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

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...

Cordwood Siding rocks the Cordwood Education Center

by Richard Flatau | May 29, 2018 | Alaska, Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

Cordwood siding (a.k.a. cordwood veneer or faux cordwood:0) was added to the interior walls at the Merrill School Forest lodge. This is for the dining hall and the administration requested a woodsy and unique wall for the students of the Merrill Area Public Schools....