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Cordwood Dorm Room

Cordwood Dorm Room

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...
Cordwood Dream Home Shines Brightly in Virginia

Cordwood Dream Home Shines Brightly in Virginia

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...
Square Cordwood Sauna

Square Cordwood Sauna

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...
Cordwood Wave House in Nova Scotia (update) 10 Years After

Cordwood Wave House in Nova Scotia (update) 10 Years After

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...
Opening a Cordwood Wall with the MudGirls

Opening a Cordwood Wall with the MudGirls

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...
Cordwood Finds Another Way

Cordwood Finds Another Way

by Richard Flatau | Oct 27, 2024 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Off grid, Uncategorized, Workshop

Dennis Laper built this cordwood cabin (pictures below) AFTER he constructed a gorgeous Stackwall Garden Shed.  He built the “Stackwall Corners” first and used them like corner posts.   The Stackwall Garden Shed The posts, trusses, and roof were installed...
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