Our post and beam cabin is standing, and mostly done on the outside. It is time to start working on the interior. Our first job is to build the washroom walls. We have a limited space inside the 18×24 foot…
Here we go! The long awaited moment in our cabin build has arrived! The cabin is all dressed up in a beautiful cedar coat, and she look marvelous! After many days of burning, staining, sorting and nailing of over a…
The Japanese use an ancient technique called “Shou sugi ban” to waterproof and preserve wood. May we present a modified version of it… the wood is Red Cedar (which is really a kind of cypress), we burn it with a…
It’s time to start dressing up our off-grid location cabin. How will it look like when we install siding? Will reality match our imagination? And are we going to break anything in the process?