by Richard Flatau | Apr 30, 2020 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Workshop
Tamas recently sent some new photos of his finished cordwood cabin in Hungary. Thank you Tamas for sharing your creative work of building a cordwood cabin. His logs are pine, cut from the surrounding forest and he did the work on weekends. He has made himself a...
by Richard Flatau | Apr 23, 2020 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Where can you find three cordwood buildings, a Yurt, a Straw-Clay Cottage, a Tepee, a Sauna, the largest Megalithic Stone Circle in the USA AND is open to the public? Kinstone Circle near Fountain City, Wisconsin, is where. Kristine Beck, the owner and inspiration...
by Richard Flatau | Apr 14, 2020 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
We’ve never built anything before but we’re very pleased with how it’s turned out.” Jan and Baz Whitlock sent pictures of their cordwood garden cottage in Bristol, England. They used the ebook Cordwood Construction Best Practices as their...
by Richard Flatau | Apr 6, 2020 | Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
There is a Cordwood Education Center (also called the Cordwood Warming Shelter) at the Merrill School Forest in Merrill, Wisconsin that became a public school classroom along the way. The goal was to create a natural building using materials from the surrounding woods...
by Richard Flatau | Mar 31, 2020 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Splashback from rain and snow can degrade and discolor the cordwood. Letting snow stand against your cordwood is a recipe for mildew, mold and rot. Lichens will even try to build where water is present before it starts. The reader will notice that the log ends and...
by Richard Flatau | Mar 23, 2020 | Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, Natural home for sale, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
The cordwood home of Mark & Chelsea in Alaska. An UPDATE has been provided as of 2026. “Our cordwood home is holding up great, no problems whatsoever. The only changes I would make is if I had access to Cedar, I would’ve...
