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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...
read moreCordwood: Build a practice building
When thinking about building with cordwood, there are many questions to be asked and answered, but the most important is: Is this natural building technique for me? To sort this out, why not gather some wood and mortar mixings, make a framework and have a go at it....
read moreCordwood & Natural Building Workshop in Fountain City, Wisconsin July 1-14, 2012
Cordwood & Natural Building Workshop Fountain City, Wisconsin July 1-14, 2012 https://kinstonecircle.com/?page_id=225 We will be teaching at a Natural Building Workshop this summer nearFountain City,Wisconsinat Kinstone. We will teach an intensive three day...
read moreCordwood Workshops 2012: Wisconsin and Alabama
Here is a listing of our upcoming workshops in Wisconsin and Alabama for 2012. If you are interested in one of these workshops, please read the information carefully. If you are able to print the registration form, do so and then snail mail it to the address listed...
read moreCordwood Construction: Best Practices 2012
The new book Cordwood Construction: Best Practices 2012 has just arrived "hot off the presses." It is the work of long time cordwood builder Richard Flatau. It is reported that this is the most up-to-date tome on cordwood building. Cordwood Construction: Best...
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Cordwood Bear Paw in home on White Earth
When we built the White Earth Reservation Cordwood Home we had not only an excellent general contractor (Robert Zahorski) but we had a tribal project director (Bill Paulson) who is an artist of significant skill. He created the Ojibway Medicine Wheel in the cordwood...
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White Earth Reservation Cordwood Home
In 2009 we assisted in the building of a beautiful cordwood home on the White Earth Reservation in NW Minnesota. We had serious help from Bill Paulson, Robert Zahorski, Arlen Kangas and the native tribal wood masons. This is an 1800 sq. ft. cordwood home made of...
read moreFine looking cordwood eye candy
My goal is to show what can be done with this old fashioned, labor intensive, natural building style. Richard Flatau www.daycreek.com/dc/html/dcrflatau1.htm
read moreCordwood Construction
Hello and welcome to Cordwood Constructions blog about, what else, cordwood. My goal in writing this blog is to make available to the public a "best practices" approach to cordwood construction. Having labored in the cordwood fields for 32 years and having helped...
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