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Cordwood Restaurant for sale in Colorado
Looking to become economically self sufficient? Want to run your own business? Are you into organic and natural living? Here is an opportunity you will want to explore.The courtyard (below and to the right) offers additional seating for parties, ceremonies and live...
read moreCordwood Workshops: The way to DIY
Cordwood workshops are the best way to learn the cordwood construction technique. When you take one from Richard & Becky Flatau of Cordwood Construction Resources LLC, they emphasis the "Best Practices" approach to building. The Flatau's have honed a set of 14 best...
read moreCordwood in Sweden with Olle
Olle Hagman, a retired professor from Gothenburg University in Sweden, built this beautiful cordwood writer's cabin in a faraway forest. He carries on a long tradition of cordwood building in his home country and has written extensively about Swedish Kubbhus...
read moreCordwood Cabin on a basement uses Best Practices
A beautiful cordwood cabin done the "right way" using Best Practices. The owner's were meticulous and made sure every part of the cabin was done properly. This cabin is built upon a walk-out, full basement. The cabin rests in the middle of 320 acres of hardwood and...
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Cordwood at Sage Mountain Center in Montana
Christopher Borton founder of the Sage Mountain Center in Whitehall. Montana has built a beautiful Cordwood Education Center. His vision is to promote sustainable and holistic well being through education and demonstration. Classes, tours, seminars and workshops...
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Cordwood Most Beautiful @Ravenwood Part 2
Note: This is part 2 of a two-part post about Bruce & Nancy's cordwood masterpiece(s). The first part is available at Most Beautiful Cordwood part 1 Before Bruce & Nancy built their cordwood masterpiece near Saranac, New York they built a storage shed and then a...
read moreCordwood Construction at Aspen Valley Ranch in Colorado
Ryan Ross of Woodland Park, Colorado (Pike's Peak) was kind enough to share these photos. Ryan wrote, "We have our own portable sawmill and cut all the timber-frame material right here on the ranch...The walls are 8" thick because we use this as an art...
read moreCordwood Chicken Coop in British Columbia
Tasha & Nathan in the Kootenay/Okanagan Mountains of British Columbia have created a modern day homestead. They have a menagerie of well loved and well cared for animals. Their "just-about-finished" cedar chicken coop is a sturdy post and beam structure with unique...
read moreCordwood at Maitreya Mountain Village in California
Maitreya Mountain Village is a permaculture community advocating sustainable living. It is located in the mountains of California. The community has built many different structures using natural building principles. Here is an example of cordwood siding using a...
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Cordwood Walls, Signs & Fences
There are some very amazing signs and billboards being created as artwork and not for residences. Billboards, fences, signs, and gates are being built with a cordwood motif. Here are a few examples. A sunburst dry-stack cordwood porch fence for kindling wood. The...
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