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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals...
read moreCob & Cordwood Cottage in Finland by Heidi Vilkman
Heidi Vilkman sent me photos of her wonderful natural building project in southern Finland. You can read more about Heidi's adventure at https://www.heidivilkman.com/ go to the Eco link. Here is Heidi's intro "This blog is about following my dream to build a small Eco...
read moreCordwood Writer's Cabin in Sweden
Olle Hagman built his Writer's cabin in Sweden in order to have a natural haven from the hustle and bustle of his job as a professor of sociology at Gotenburg University. He wrote two articles for the Cordwood Conference Papers 2011: A Social History of Cordwood...
read moreKinstone Cordwood Chapel update
The Kinstone Cordwood Chapel continues on pace to completion. Weekend workdays are helping to finish the walls. Motifs with a nature theme are being placed in the walls: night, day, stars, wind, river, trees. Here are some pictures of the first completed 12 foot...
read moreCordwood Article in New Pioneer Magazine Fall 2012 issue
An outstanding article about Ed McAllen's cordwood home in Galesville, WI is featured in the current edition of New Pioneer Magazine. The article reports how Ed and his wife Julie built their lovely cordwood home for around $23,000, completing it in 1998. The reader...
read moreProgress at the Kinstone Cordwood Chapel August 5, 2012
The work at the Kinstone Cordwood Chapel near Fountain City, Wisconsin continues with weekend workshops. The cordwood will be completed by this fall and the thatched roof should be completed next spring (more reeds have to be gathered and...
read moreCordwood at Rainbow Lake by Tom Huber
Tom Huber has been building cordwood for a long time. He sold his beautiful cordwood home in Watervilet, Michigan in 2005 when he moved to take a teaching position at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Once he found some suitable land he...
read moreCordwood Chapel Workshop at Kinstone near Fountain City, Wisconsin
If you are interested in finding out more about cordwood construction go to: www.corwdoodconstruction.org or...
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Reverse Alchemy: Turning metal into wood
A metal pole barn gets cordwood and slab siding and takes on a whole new look.
Backhome Magazine (www.backhomemagazine.com) included an article in the June 2012 (Issue #119) about the transformation of the metal garage. The theme of the article is taking old, faded metal sheds and making them attractive with an easily applied wooden “skin.” The article is shared courtesy of the editors of Backhome Magazine and is used with their full permission.
Cordwood and Log Framing in Poland
These pictures are from a Polish website called Organica. This is a log home building company that has started using cordwood infill in between heavy log framing. The log wall in the picture has cob for the mortar matrix and is colored with potter's dyes. This is...
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