by Richard Flatau | Sep 17, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building
The Kinstone Cordwood Chapel continues on pace to completion. Weekend workdays are helping to finish the walls. Motifs with a nature theme are being placed in the walls: night, day, stars, wind, river, trees. Here are some pictures of the first completed 12 foot...
by Richard Flatau | Aug 11, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
An outstanding article about Ed McAllen’s cordwood home in Galesville, WI is featured in the current edition of New Pioneer Magazine. The article reports how Ed and his wife Julie built their lovely cordwood home for around $23,000, completing it in 1998. The...
by Richard Flatau | Aug 2, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
Tom Huber has been building cordwood for a long time. He sold his beautiful cordwood home in Watervilet, Michigan in 2005 when he moved to take a teaching position at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Once he found some suitable land...
by Richard Flatau | Jul 14, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building, Uncategorized
If you are interested in finding out more about cordwood construction go to: www.corwdoodconstruction.org or...
by Richard Flatau | May 3, 2012 | Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
These pictures are from a Polish website called Organica. This is a log home building company that has started using cordwood infill in between heavy log framing. The log wall in the picture has cob for the mortar matrix and is colored with potter’s dyes....
by Richard Flatau | Apr 22, 2012 | Alternative Building, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Natural Building
When thinking about building with cordwood, there are many questions to be asked and answered, but the most important is: Is this natural building technique for me? To sort this out, why not gather some wood and mortar mixings, make a framework and have a go at it....
