by Richard Flatau | Apr 25, 2025 | cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Natural Building, Off grid, Tiny home, Uncategorized
Noah Bly built this gorgeous cordwood sauna in Maine. He made all the doors and fabricated the hinges with rock-solid blacksmithing and mudded all the walls. The Sauna is an excellent example of a simple shed design. The building is relatively easy to frame and with...
by Richard Flatau | Mar 19, 2025 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Cordwood Dorm Room by Nicole Barna The Barna’s of Houghton, Michigan used to rent out their cordwood cabin, which their daughter built and wrote an article about in the Cordwood Conference Papers 2005 called “My...
by Richard Flatau | Jan 21, 2025 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Uncategorized
Cordwood Dream Home Shines Brightly in Virginia Winona and Donnie share details about their wonderful cordwood creation in Virginia. This is both a work of art and a cordwood home built using Best Practices. Since the house site is in the 100 yr flood zone we had...
by Richard Flatau | Jan 7, 2025 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Off grid, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
The Story of the Square Cordwood Sauna in Minnesota by Charles Yeager Cordwood Instructor In October of 2023, I was helping clear the Banadad Ski Trail, near the Gunflint Trail in Northern Minnesota, to ready it for cross-country skiers. One of the volunteers, who...
by Richard Flatau | Dec 8, 2024 | cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Wave house in Nova Scotia by Michael Fuller. [Update] Michael sent me a few pictures of his beautiful cordwood cabin in Nova Scotia about 10 years ago. His photos have been very well received and admired by folks researching cordwood. He has recently sent an...
by Richard Flatau | Nov 10, 2024 | Alternative Building, Cob, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Tiny home
How to Break Open a Wall in a Cordwood House by Peter Kulich The cordwood cabin we bought in 2015 was lovely – and listed in Lloyd Khan’s Builders of the Pacific Northwest. Nestled in the trees it was sheltered from the worst of the beach weather and never...
