Inside and Out: When I post a cordwood photo, folks often ask, “What does that look like on the inside? This is a 4 part blog post series about incredible cordwood homes, cabins, and cottages with pictures of the outside and the inside. 
Bryan & Lois Pratt built this unbelievably gorgeous cordwood home in Woodland Park, Colorado. It is 12 sided with a full post and beam log framework. This is a masterpiece of good construction and design. The back windows and deck look out onto Pike’s Peak!
The kitchen at the Pratt’s home is a lovely place for a healthy meal. 
Albert Norris built this beautiful cordwood cabin with double doors in Alberta, Canada.
Cordwood and blue windows with bottle bricks in Alberta, Canada. 
Double Wall with 4.3 KW array in LaCrescent, Minnesota by Alan Stankevitz.
Nick Kautzer post frame and cordwood in California.
Oklahoma cordwood using red cedar and bottles to make a cozy family room. 
Washington State cordwood with Western Red Cedar.
Vancouver Island cordwood home with a fish pond.
Spartanburg, South Carolina with a spiral staircase and a basement. 
Asheville, North Carolina, cordwood on a mountain top.
Cordwood home at White Earth in Minnesota made of cedar, with a room in the attic truss for an additional 800 sq. ft. of living space. 
The Cordwood Education Center Classroom in Merrill, Wisconsin.
Northern White Cedar cordwood home in Reedsburg, WI. Don & Cathy.
Flatau’s Chateau lovely cordwood home in Merrill, Wisconsin (above and below).
The Cordstead in Quebec: a BnB by Sandy and Angelika. 
Sebastien Demers and his round and rectangle cordwood home in Quebec City, Quebec.
His banana tree produced 30 pounds of bananas!
Kinstone Cordwood Chapel in the springtime. 
John Meilahn, Copper Harbor, Michigan. 
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Richard & Becky Flatau built their mortgage-free cordwood home in 1979 in Merrill, Wisconsin. Since then, they have written books, conducted workshops, facilitated the 2005, 2011 and 2015 Cordwood Conferences and provided consultation for cordwood builders. Cordwood Workshop DVD (2018), Cordwood Construction Best Practices (print 2017) and Cordwood Conference Papers 2015 are the newest publications available from their Online Cordwood Bookstore. The books & DVD are also available as ebooks for a quick and easy shipping free download. www.cordwoodconstruction.org
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Western Red Cedar in a 30 year old cordwood home in British Columbia. The mortar joints are approximately one inch and the cordwood has all been split into unique and interesting shapes. 
(Above) lots of well placed cordwood in a wall at Greg and Clare’s. 
Above is a fine example of various shapes embedded in a mortar matrix. 
Ned Thilo used a brick framework with a random display in the center. He also used an off center crescent moon motif to create a work of art.
As did Chelsea and Mark with their Alaskan sauna. 
Eric and Beth used rocks, bottles and a lightning bolt. 
Here deer antlers, bottles and marbles are used. 
Maranda is rightly proud of the work she (and others) did on the star wall at Kinstone.
A sauna in Poland benefited from a very large, undulating piece of log and a red earthen mortar.
Rounds and splits with 8 inch cordwood. 
Paying attention to and having many different sizes and shapes is incredibly helpful in creating your own piece of wall art. This process starts when you are splitting and stacking your wood for drying.
The cabin rests in the middle of 320 acres of hardwood and conifer forest. 
Cordwood Chalet in Golden, British Columbia
This cottage shows how different building styles compliment one another: cordwood, lime plaster, cedar plank siding and stone, all take their turn showing off. In doing so, they make a truly unique cottage.
From the Airbnb site: “Situated in the stunning Blaeberry Valley, 15 minutes drive from Golden, our Cordwood Chalet is the perfect getaway to peacefulness and tranquility in the heart of nature. Newly built and comfy, its location offers a wide range of outdoor activities.” 
Made from Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir, this is a massive post and beam framed beauty with large overhangs.
A primary check will run right through the large rounds, from inside to outside and must be stuffed to prevent air and insect infiltration. 
Huge Douglas Fir posts make a sturdy statement. 
These large pieces will continue to shrink in the wall, so a caulking like Permachink or Log Jam (which comes in mortar colors) is important to have on hand. 
This home was built in 1994. It is on the top of a hill and shows a wonderful view of the surrounding mountains and valley. It has 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths and sits on 1.26 acres.
Sam Felt and Bill talking about cordwood building in the center part of the home’s inner circle. This is a very beautiful and dramatic building. The arches were 1″ dimensional lumber, bent to make a frame and then pulled off once the mortar hardened. 
Sam Felt’s home in Adel, Georgia. It is made of cypress and has arched doorways created by the Godfather of Cordwood, Jack Henstridge.
Above is Renyard’s cypress cordwood home in Adel, Georgia. 
Tom and Ann’s post and beam framed beauty, in Rockmart, Georgia. This one has a large stone fireplace and is built on an older stone barn foundation. It has the wrap around porch that makes for good neighborly living. 
The beams make a handy place to dry the garden produce.
Spartanburg, South Carolina is graced with this post framed cordwood with a full walk-out basement. The interior is also very attractive. This home sold, when the family moved to Colorado, to the first person who looked at it (for the asking price!) The real estate agent said it was because of the quality of the build. 
The The Cookie House (built in 1931) in Edgewater, Florida is a good example of how long cordwood will last in the south. 
Wilburton, Oklahoma is so hot in the summer, that it’s hard to do heavy physical labor in the heat of the noon day sun. This was built by a veteran on a military reserve and sold quickly, when he moved to Hawaii to be with his grandchildren. It is made of Eastern Red Cedar. 
Suffice it is to say that if a rot resistant wood is used, along with a slow setting mortar, within a post and beam framework, cordwood can be successfully built in many climates.
9. Door frames and window boxes attached and ready for cordwood infill.
Chelsea and Mark recently completed a cordwood sauna (2017) with bottle ends and a huge moon shaped piece of pine. 
Here they proudly display a 24 hours of sunlight mega-Alaskan zucchini.
