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Cordwood Workshops 2012: Wisconsin and Alabama

by Richard Flatau | Mar 13, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...

Cordwood Construction: Best Practices 2012

by Richard Flatau | Mar 6, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...

Poor man's stained glass (bottle ends in cordwood walls)

by Richard Flatau | Feb 12, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building | 0 Comments

Recycling bottles is easy with cordwood construction. Simply stick them in the walls! Take a clear bottle and a a colored bottle, put them together, mortar them in the wall and "let the sunshine in..." These are a few of the many ways to make your walls stand out...

Cordwood Bear Paw in home on White Earth

by Richard Flatau | Feb 10, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building | 0 Comments

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...

White Earth Reservation Cordwood Home

by Richard Flatau | Feb 7, 2012 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Workshop | 0 Comments

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...

Fine looking cordwood eye candy

by Richard Flatau | Feb 5, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building | 0 Comments

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

Cordwood Construction

by Richard Flatau | Feb 5, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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...