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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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Cordwood Construction in Mexico
Mario Vargas sent me some wonderful photos of a cordwood bath house he is building near Tlaxcala, Mexico. He is using white and red cedar to complete his cordwood walls. Three masons are working on the walls tuck pointing. Since it is a bath house the windows are...
read moreDoes Cordwood belong in the Kitchen?
As my Swedish (Minnesotan) friends would say "Ya sure you betcha!" Many folks have wondered how to hang kitchen cabinets and design their kitchen around cordwood walls. It is actually very easy because cabinets can be hung on any level and plumb wall. Here are some...
read moreCordwood Conference Papers 2015
The 2015 Cordwood Conference was held near Plattsburg, New York on July 11-12, 2015. It was hosted by Rob and Jaki Roy of Earthwood Building School. 35 wonderful souls attended and had an outstanding time learning, sharing and networking. A set of papers was...
read moreCordwood Construction shows off her Outhouses
One of the all-time-best cordwood construction practice projects is building the cordwood outhouse. Not only do you get to hone your cordwood mortaring skills, but you get a functional addition to your homestead.This outhouse (above) was the first cordwood building...
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Cordwood flooring moves Outdoors in Slovakia
Martin Tyciak built this gorgeous cordwood patio-terrace at his home in Slovakia. Here the 2-inch cordwood slices are being hammered into place so they are level. The base of gravel had already been tamped to make a firm and level foundation. Martin used wood from...
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