Building a cordwood home with our own hands has been a long and rewarding experience. Here are some of the major things that happened in the last two months as we finished the build.
Progress Updates
Building a Cordwood House: September-October Round 2
Building a cordwood home by hand has been a very humbling and enriching experience. Find out what we accomplished in the past two months as we prepare to move to our cordwood home for the first time!
Building a Cordwood House: July and August Progress Report
It’s our second full summer building our cordwood house. From insulation to paneling and more, check out everything we accomplished in the months of July and August building our off-grid cordwood house.
June Building Update: Our Off Grid Cordwood Home at One Year
Building an off grid cordwood home is easily the craziest DIY task we’ve ever taken on, and after the months of April and May, we were ready to jump right into June! While I have left my job as a teacher, Mark is still working in his, which means the months of June and July…
April – May Building Update
The months of April and May were so jam-packed it’s hard to know where to start. When we finished out March, we had just finished the cedar siding and had purchased a new-to-us truck in the wake of having our other one totaled. Boo. I figured that April would be a quiet month and May…
March Update: Life Happens!
We’ve been far too absent in the last several weeks because, well… LIFE KEEPS HAPPENING TO US! Perhaps you’ve felt like this too. You start feeling like you’re catching up and you can actually juggle everything and then everything comes crashing in again. We totally get it. While the setbacks we’ve faced lately aren’t the worst…
January – February Cordwood Homestead Building Update
It’s been a little while since I’ve given a full homestead building update. It’s slow-going during the winter when we’re both teaching during the day, so what have we been able to accomplish?
November – December Building Update
Now that the cordwood walls have officially been finished, we’ve gotten to move on to some other projects that will let us close in our home and make keep the critters out for winter. There are a lot of little parts to this side of the project that most people probably never even think about in…
Cordwood Homestead: September – October Progress Update
For anyone who has been following along on Facebook and Instagram, you’ve seen some pretty cool changes happening to our house since the last update. If you missed it, read the August – September Update HERE. Also, here’s the June and July updates if you want to see how this house rose from the ground….
Cordwood Progress Report – August and September
Take a look at everything we’ve completed in the last month and a half of building our cordwood homestead! From laying logs to mixing mortar and making bottle ends, it’s all getting done.
