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Cordwood in Oklahoma is OK

by Richard Flatau | Jan 23, 2013 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building | 0 Comments

Alan & Rebecca Barreca sent me the following pictures and information on their beautiful home in SE Oklahoma. For those who are wondering about cordwood in a hot, humid climate, this will help answer your questions. "We moved into our 16 sided cordwood home last Mar...

Cordwood Workshops May 18-19 & July 13-14, 2013 near Fountain City, Wisconsin

by Richard Flatau | Jan 5, 2013 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized, Workshop | 0 Comments

May 18-19 Workshop is FULL, please call (715-212-2870 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 715-212-2870 end_of_the_skype_highlighting) to be placed on the waiting list. There are still a few openings for July 13-14, but call to be sure. Would you like a...

2012 in review

by Richard Flatau | Jan 1, 2013 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building | 0 Comments

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...

Cob & Cordwood Cottage in Finland by Heidi Vilkman

by Richard Flatau | Dec 20, 2012 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building | 0 Comments

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...

Cordwood Writer's Cabin in Sweden

by Richard Flatau | Oct 20, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building | 0 Comments

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...

Kinstone Cordwood Chapel update

by Richard Flatau | Sep 17, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building | 0 Comments

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...

Cordwood Article in New Pioneer Magazine Fall 2012 issue

by Richard Flatau | Aug 11, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...

Progress at the Kinstone Cordwood Chapel August 5, 2012

by Richard Flatau | Aug 10, 2012 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...

Cordwood at Rainbow Lake by Tom Huber

by Richard Flatau | Aug 2, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...