by Richard Flatau | Sep 27, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, Uncategorized, Workshop
Bruce and Nancy Kilgore’s built this beautiful round cordwood guesthouse in upstate New York. After they built it, they lived in it for nine months while constructing their double-wall cordwood home nearby. Nancy is a mortar maven and Bruce is a superb mortar...
by Richard Flatau | Sep 14, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Ernie Slatter attended our Cordwood Construction workshop at Kinstone Permaculture Academy in Wisconsin and then went back home and built this beautiful sauna in British Columbia. The sauna is called “Sea Bluff Sauna.” The latest picture with daffodils...
by Richard Flatau | Aug 11, 2019 | Alternative Building, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Natural Building, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
Do you love the taste of Maple Syrup? Would you like to have your own Cordwood Maple Sugar Shack? Ted Amman answered YES to both questions. He wanted to build a “shack” to house his family maple syrup harvest. Ted attended a cordwood workshop, visited...
by Richard Flatau | Jul 1, 2019 | Alaska, Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
How would you like to learn about an inexpensive foundation that doesn’t require concrete and keeps your cordwood “up” off the ground? The following pictures, coupled with a brief explanation by builder Stu Bridge, help to clarify the simplicity and...
by Richard Flatau | Jun 26, 2019 | Alaska, Alternative Building, Cob, cordwood, Cordwood Construction, cordwood house, Green building, log end, Off grid, solar, Tiny home, Uncategorized, Workshop
“Who Let the Dogs Out” of their cordwood houses? Who, who, who? When they are outside they pose with panache. Usually, with a look of “my home is built like a fortress! Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah!”Whitefang loves her cordwood in Homer, Alaska. ...