by Richard Flatau | Jul 6, 2016 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, Uncategorized, Workshop
Did you know there is a cottage filled with mermaids in southern Colorado? Even though it is a thousand miles from the nearest ocean, this B n B has a bevvy of seafaring sirens. It has gorgeous views, breathtaking skies, and wonderful structures. The cottage is...
by Richard Flatau | Jun 24, 2016 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop
In the rolling bluffs and buttes of southwest Wisconsin and nigh onto the Mississippi River resides a cordwood dragon. This dragon (the eye is green) is sleeping in a cordwood “dragon’s keep.” Made of cordwood, bottles, metal and glass it keeps...
by Richard Flatau | May 1, 2016 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural home for sale, Uncategorized, Workshop
Looking to become economically self sufficient? Want to run your own business? Are you into organic and natural living? Here is an opportunity you will want to explore.The courtyard (below and to the right) offers additional seating for parties, ceremonies and live...
by Richard Flatau | Apr 11, 2016 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop
Cordwood workshops are the best way to learn the cordwood construction technique. When you take one from Richard & Becky Flatau of Cordwood Construction Resources LLC, they emphasis the “Best Practices” approach to building. The Flatau’s have...
by Richard Flatau | Mar 15, 2016 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop
Olle Hagman, a retired professor from Gothenburg University in Sweden, built this beautiful cordwood writer’s cabin in a faraway forest. He carries on a long tradition of cordwood building in his home country and has written extensively about Swedish Kubbhus...
by Richard Flatau | Oct 13, 2015 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Mario Vargas sent me some wonderful photos of a cordwood bath house he is building near Tlaxcala, Mexico. He is using white and red cedar to complete his cordwood walls. Three masons are working on the walls tuck pointing. Since it is a bath house the windows are...