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Cordwood Sauna with Brilliant Blacksmith Hardware
Noah Bly built this gorgeous cordwood sauna in Maine. He made all the doors and fabricated the hinges with rock-solid blacksmithing and mudded all the walls. The Sauna is an excellent example of a simple shed design. The building is relatively easy to frame and with...
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Cordwood Dorm Room
Cordwood Dorm Room by Nicole Barna The Barna’s of Houghton, Michigan used to rent out their cordwood cabin, which their daughter built and wrote an article about in the Cordwood Conference Papers 2005 called “My...
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Cordwood Dream Home Shines Brightly in Virginia
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...
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Square Cordwood Sauna
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...
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Cordwood Wave House in Nova Scotia (update) 10 Years After
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...
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Opening a Cordwood Wall with the MudGirls
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...
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Cordwood Finds Another Way
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...
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Magnificent Cordwood in Missouri
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...
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Modern Cordwood Off-Grid Home from a Recycled Barn
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...
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Cordwood Construction (Cobwood) Earthmovesdesign UK
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...
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