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Copper Harbor Cordwood
Copper Harbor is a tiny village atop the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Settled by Finns, Norwegians and Swedes (among others) it is a rugged land of strong individuals. Since the land abounds with copper, cedar and stone, folks have been building...
read moreMake doors for your cordwood cabin
People often ask me, "Why do builders spend all their time building a beautiful cordwood home and then slap a crummy door on it?" I usually answer by saying they are probably tired after their labors and just want to get it enclosed, but, I also encourage...
read moreCordwood Countertops and Flooring!
https://cordwoodconstruction.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/cordwood-construction-website/This blog post has been receiving quite a bit of interest lately, so I thought I would reblog so folks who are interested in learning about cordwood flooring and cordwood countertops could see it. I also added a few more pictures and a link to the instructions on how...
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Hybrid Cordwood Cottage in North Carolina
Clarke Snell co-author of the excellent book, Building Green, spoke to our Cordwood Workshop at Love's Organic Farm near Marshall, North Carolina. We then followed him to his Building Green Cottage site where he gave the class a tour and explanation of the various...
read moreAustralian Owner Builder Magazine publishes Cordwood Article
The Australian magazine The Owner Builder recently published an article about cordwood construction in issue 182. The Owner Builder Magazine also runs a website, a blog site, a print and digital magazine and workshops of all kinds. Lynda (the editor) gave me...
read moreWhite Earth Reservation Cordwood Home
This is the cedar cordwood home we were honored to be involved with at the White Earth Reservation in Naytahwaush, Minnesota. Below if the first page of the article about this project in the January/February 2013 issue of Backhome Magazine. It is reprinted herein,...
read moreCordwood in Oregon by Don Noe
Don Noe's beautiful cordwood shed in Oregon. This shed with the cord wood wall was built with 90 percent construction scrap. It was timber framed with timbers from large machine crates. The logs came from an arborist who was going to use them for firewood. Look at...
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Cordwood on the Beach (Bermuda)
Back in the early 2000's Ben Falk of Whole System Design https://www.wholesystemsdesign.com/ decided to build a cordwood classroom/workshop on the Island using only natural materials. Ben worked through the Island School and Cape Eleuthera Institute. He gathered a...
read moreCordwood Flooring Article published in Backhome Magazine
In June I posted a few pictures and a brief explanation of Steve & Sharon Lee's cordwood floor. After showing the pictures to the editor of Backhome Magazine, he asked if we would work up an article that would explain the process of laying a cordwood floor. Here are...
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Cordwood Cottage in Nova Scotia
Michael Fuller designed & built this beautiful cordwood cottage near Diligent River, Nova Scotia. There is a subtle swoosh motif with the cordwood and an interesting curved horizontal post mortared into the side wall. He is a designer, a builder and an artist. Michael...
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