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Cordwood Construction Sauna in Wisconsin
One way to put a large piece in the wall and make sure it won't loosen is to "explode it" by splitting it and then putting it back together with a mortar bead. The very dry wood is Aspen. We were lucky to have such wonderful folk at our cordwood sauna workshop in...
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Tiny Cordwood Home
Kit & Jesse are building a 768 sq. ft. tiny cordwood home with a sleeping loft for their family of four. Using best practices, they have radiant in floor heat, post and beam framing, 16-inch cedar cordwood infill and an R-value of 50 in the roof. The log end that...
read moreCordwood & Timber Frame
Can you combine Cordwood with Timber Framing? Ya sure you betcha! Here are photos of the infilling of a traditional timber frame home with 16" cedar cordwood and lime putty mortar with a 10" sawdust insulation cavity (R-value of 24). . This style of timber framing...
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Cordwood Construction in Holland: a perfectly beautiful Cordwood Garden House
Marie-Louise shared these photos of a cordwood "garden house" she built in Holland. The post and beam framework is attached to the wooden deck. Tree limbs have been trimmed and placed into the wall to lend an organic appeal to the garden house. Cordwood rounds have...
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Maple Sugar Cordwood
Do you love the taste of Maple Syrup? Would you like to have your own Codwood Maple Sugar Shack? Ted Amman says YES to both questions. He wanted to build a "shack" to house his family maple syrup harvest. Ted attended a cordwood workshop, visited the Cordwood...
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Cordwood Mermaid Cottage in Colorado
Did you know there is a cottage filled with mermaids in southern Colorado? Even though it is a thousand miles from the nearest ocean, this B n B has a bevvy of seafaring sirens. It has gorgeous views, breathtaking skies, and wonderful structures. The cottage is...
read moreDragon’s Cordwood Keep
In the rolling bluffs and buttes of southwest Wisconsin and nigh onto the Mississippi River resides a cordwood dragon. This dragon (the eye is green) is sleeping in a cordwood "dragon's keep." Made of cordwood, bottles, metal and glass it keeps watch over the...
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Cordwood Construction Best Practices DVD is the newest addition to the expanding field of cordwood information If you want to see a video of detailed, best practice methods of building, mixing, tuck pointing and insulating a cordwood wall, this DVD has it, from all...
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Beautiful Cordwood Countertop
Patti Brehler from near Roscommon, Michigan sent these gorgeous photos of the cordwood top she made on top of her husband's corner cabinet. You will notice a walnut turtle in the center. How creative and delightful! Thank you Patti for sharing your creation. I love...
read moreWee Cordwood Playhouse in North Carolina
What is tinier than a tiny house? Well, a Wee Cordwood Playhouse that's what. We were privileged to work with the staff at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, North Carolina in their Children's Gardens called Lost Hollow and Wicket Thicket. At 64 sq. ft....
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