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?
We start a new season with a lot of ideas and plans. Early on, we get busy clearing land, excavating and trail building. A couple of mishaps early in the season are the harbinger of problems we encounter down the…
Ahoy there! Can you guess where we are with our post and beam log cabin at a remote lake in North Vancouver Island? A lot happened over the last several months, with several projects going on at the same time.…