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. This is an example of a gorgeous sauna with heavy log framing and cordwood infill from Polish Organica builder Mateusz Szwagierczak.
The large windows and handmade doors are very attractive.
The Mortar Mix is cob (sand, clay, straw) is mixed with a potter’s dye for contrast. Excellent log placemen!
The style used for the cordwood sauna is called a double pumpkin. As you look from a drone view you see two roundish pumpkins.
This is the resting area to sit and cool off after a good, hot sauna.
This is an interior wall that showcases excellent cordwood placement using cob mortar. Photos are used with permission.
Should you wish to learn how to build a cordwood cottage, cabin, or home, please visit www.cordwoodconstruction.org While you are there, click on the pictures, read the brief articles, check out the latest workshops and newsletter and if you are interested click on the Online Bookstore to see all the cordwood literature available in print and ebook format.
If you have questions that aren’t answered on the website you may email me at richardflatau@gmail.com
Readers have requested a brief bio, so here goes:
Richard & Becky Flatau built their mortgage-free cordwood home in 1979 in Merrill, Wisconsin. Since then, they have written books, conducted workshops, facilitated 2005, 2011 & 2015 Cordwood Conferences, and provided consultation for cordwood builders. Cordwood Construction: Best Practices DVD (2018), Cordwood Construction Best Practices 2020 (print & ebook), and Cordwood Conference Papers 2015 are the newest publications available from their Online Cordwood Bookstore. www.cordwoodconstruction.org
The Cordwood Workshop DVD is like taking a workshop in your own living room.
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