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 | Jun 14, 2016 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Off grid, Workshop
Cordwood Construction Best Practices DVD is the newest addition to the expanding field of cordwood information If you want to see a video of detailed, best practice methods of building, mixing, tuck pointing and insulating a cordwood wall, this DVD has it, from all...
by Richard Flatau | May 23, 2016 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Workshop
What is tinier than a tiny house? Well, a Wee Cordwood Playhouse that’s what. We were privileged to work with the staff at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, North Carolina in their Children’s Gardens called Lost Hollow and Wicket Thicket....
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...
