by Richard Flatau | Mar 24, 2014 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Uncategorized, Workshop
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...
by Richard Flatau | Jan 25, 2014 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Workshop
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,...
by Richard Flatau | Jan 16, 2014 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized
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....
by Richard Flatau | Jan 9, 2014 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
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...
by Richard Flatau | Dec 24, 2013 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized, Workshop
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....
by Richard Flatau | Dec 1, 2013 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized
In the north-west corner of Indiana sits a gorgeous, congregation-built cordwood church. Our Lady of Guadalupe nestles into its surroundings in the town of Chesterton, Indiana. Our Lady of Guadalupe Cordwood Chapel in Chesterton, Indiana The details of the building...
