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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.
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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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 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.
Known as “stovewood” or “stackwall” there is a Stovewood home and chicken coop at Old World Wisconsin. It’s purpose is to preserve the history of cordwood in the Badger State.
The interior shelving shows off some of the “finds.”
These buildings house classrooms, kitchens and dormitories that serve the middle school girls from the area. The girls are able to continue their education and learn skills that are income producing. Many volunteers and organizations have helped in the support and construction of this wonderful community. Rob & Tara Cahill are the Directors.
The shingles are recycled tires and are donated by a Canadian shingle company. They are guaranteed to last for 100 years. Comforting thought in the rain forest!
The Quetzal’s have high stone foundations to funnel the ever present rainwater away from the buildings.
The community grows traditional fruits and vegetables (local squash is pictured above) and has an industrial kitchen to make jams, jellies and salsas to sell on the world market.
The beautiful windows are handmade by local artisans.
Students learn valuable skills that help them with high school and employability.
Elvira, a graduate of the Cloud Forest Conservatory, is teaching plant identification and their uses to a group of visiting students. There is also an ornithology program run by Cornell University. Many unique species of birds and plants are to be found in the adjacent rain forest.
Young students were taught masonry skills to erect the buildings. 
The front porch is a valuable and beautiful teaching space.
Cleaning logs for the cordwood infill.
The garage (aka Carriage House) has a room-in-the-attic truss. It allows for a 400 sq. ft. living space in the attic. Water was plumbed into the upstairs, as well as electricity. The roof pitch is 8/12. 
The stackwall corner posts are built at the same time as the post and beam framework. Then the roof is applied and braced. Finally the cordwood infill. 
The stackwall corners are a old fashioned way to build with cordwood, but the owner learned a new way to make them so they functioned as a post and allowed the roof to be put on ahead of time. 
This is the lake home that was built next to the Carriage House in central Minnesota. 
The building inspector/code official requested that pressure treated lumber be used on the exterior framing. 150 year old barn timbers from Janesville, Wisconsin were used for the interior. 
An enamel Vermont Casting wood stove provides heat. (Below)Another look at the framing, the timbers and the stackwall corners. The lake is in the background. 
(Below) Matt & Carrie built a similar room-in-the-attic two and a half car garage in Wisconsin. They are very pleased with the upstairs living space. Carrie is an architect, so she had a leg up with exterior and interior design. 
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30′ x 40′ Post and beam framed with Northern White Cedar on a frosty November morning. 
Interior walls and ceilings are made from locally milled Norwegian Pine (also called Red Pine). In a nutshell, our cordwood home is doing just fine. The mortar is in good shape, there is no degradation of the wood and our home is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Who could ask for anything more?
At 720 pounds, the Hearthstone Wood Stove supplies all the heat we need. Having a large thermal mass, a passive solar design and an attached solar/greenhouse room helps to moderate the interior heating and cooling. 
The photo above was taken when the Mother Earth News sent a photographer from New York to document the Mortgage Free Cordwood Article we had written in 1980. 
The always reliant Yellow Transparent apple tree provides fragrant blooms every spring. Note the domestic hot water solar thermal panels on the roof.
Many articles have been published about our little cabin in the woods over the past four decades, here are links to the last and the first.
A roundwood, log cabin style roof for the second floor. 
A living roof needs a sturdy framework, proper waterproofing protection and good drainage. The rule of thumb with living roofs is to build them like a fine cabinet maker. 
The angle cuts for a round living roof can be complicated for a beginner.
A simple shed roof is very easy to build.
This roof is separate from the building structure.
Reciprocal roofs are beautiful, but do not provide adequate insulation in cold climates, but they sure do look good!
Peter Turkow’s childhood cordwood home. Known as “The House with the Hat.”
A Siberian Husky from Russia loves his log cabin.
Tom Huber built this masterpiece in Michigan.
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