Cordwood is a building technique that is richly embodied in sweat equity and labor intensiveness. The actual physical process of building is not seriously strenuous (the log ends are only 16″ long), ...
After nearly 30 years of living and working in Madison, Wisconsin, we longed for a rural home. We’d spent several frustrating years looking for rural property, but anything with livable buildings ...
WHITE EARTH, Minn. — A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It’s part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Richard Flateau built a cordwood home 35 years ago as an eco-friendly way to live mortgage free. He and his wife, Becky, read a magazine article about a man from New Brunswick, ...
Andersson•Wise Architects updates the old technique of cordwood construction to create a private cabin. Let’s just cross our fingers that the residents don’t like to play with matches. When we first ...
La CRESCENT -- You see a pile of firewood. Alan Stankevitz sees a house. At least, that's what you get, Stankevitz says, if you combine thousands of chunks of wood, tons of mortar made of cement, sand ...
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Richard Flateau built a cordwood home 35 years ago as an eco-friendly way to live mortgage free. He and his wife, Becky, read a magazine article about a man from New Brunswick, ...
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