Cordwood Million Dollar Lodge

Cordwood Million Dollar Lodge

Cordwood is usually chosen as a building style in order to save money. The fact that it uses locally available, sustainable materials is an added incentive.  However, sometimes cordwood is built to impress, and here is a fine example.  This million-dollar cordwood...
Breathtaking Cordwood: Pike’s Peak Colorado

Breathtaking Cordwood: Pike’s Peak Colorado

Bryan and Lois Pratt of Woodland Park, Colorado have built one of the finest cordwood homes in the world!   This 12 sided, two-story beauty is breathtaking in its construction and has an unfettered view of Pike’s Peak. Bryan and Lois planned for many years to...
Cordwood Construction and Hybrid Buildings

Cordwood Construction and Hybrid Buildings

Cordwood plays well with other natural and alternative styles.  Here are some examples of cordwood homes that have horizontal logs, vertical logs, board and batten siding, strawbale, earthen plaster, cobwood, earthbag and so forth.    The pictures bespeak a natural...
Cordwood & the Code in Canada NEW DATA

Cordwood & the Code in Canada NEW DATA

Trying to figure out the code and how it applies to your cordwood dream home?  Here is a personal message from a cordwood builder in Ontario. This is what worked for us in South Western Ontario. The building inspector here at the time (16 years ago) was not interested...