Cordwood cabin built by Gary and Marlene Cooper on a small island in British Columbia. All the cordwood came off the beach. It’s a double-wall technique; there is an inner and an outer wall, each 4″ thick, with the cavity in between insulated with cedar sawdust created when cutting the blocks. More photos in Builders of the Pacific Coast.
I’m going through old photos now. This was somewhere in a remote part of Nevada. Look at the excellent joints. A little beauty, perfect proportions (ignoring the add-on at the back).
Dear Lloyd,
I enjoy your books and your blog very much! Thanks for that!
I just found the German book Kleinsthäuser, Ferienhäuser, Bungalows from 1959. I have never heard the term “Kleinsthäuser” which means tiny houses, so I was surprised to see that.
I attach a few pictures because I thought you might find it interesting. The first ones are showing a portable house and the second batch “Heidelberger Wochenendhaus,” i.e., Heidelberger weekend home, shows an interesting tiny house designed by two Germans.
The last picture shows two houses that were built according to a method developed in the USA in which the car is parked under the house, which is on stilts.
Kind regards,
Petra (Hegenbart)
I just liked the pattern.
Spotted this in San Francisco last week. Lots of interior space, sliding doors both sides. 178 hp. 4-cylinder, 9-speed automatic, 24 mpg, about $24k; half the cost of Mercedes Sprinter van (altho the dodge is neither 4 wheel drive nor diesel). Looks like a pretty good base for building your own RV.
From Bob Kahn
Doorway in Berkeley two days ago
Three-dot Journalism
A la Herb Caen, the great Chronicle columnist and lover of all things San Franciscan, and who I started reading at age 15; just throwing out unrelated fragments followed by 3 dots. He often called these columns “Friday Morning Fish Fry.”
“I don’t do what I outta, I just do what I do” – Taj Mahal/Ace of Cups
Hi Lloyd,
I’ve been digging through your books hard lately. We bought a house with 3 acres about an hour north of Boston and I’ve been homesteading it up. Building terraces for the garden, stonework, improvements for the sawmill barn, and extensive landscaping. I’ve yet to dig into the inside house work.
Anyway, I first heard about your work while up on an 80-acre parcel with a homestead in the deep interior of Alaska. My buddies dad quit architecture school just before graduation and got a big chunk of land under the homestead act in the late ’70s. Out of Anchorage, I took two small planes to get picked up by a boat for another 1.5-hour boat ride upriver.
Anyway, my buddy who summers there, said you gotta look at this book. It was: Shelter. I was intoxicated. That was 15 years ago. You know in life we seem to find things at the right time in life? Now sorting through your recent publications (early 2000s on) it’s the perfect tonic as i dig into new crazy projects. I’ve got a sauna and a treehouse on my mind right now. I run a fancy-pants tree pruning company and run a backyard sawmill operation while also a full-time high school arboriculture teacher. Well anyway, thanks for all your work on these magnificent publications. The Builders of the Pacific Coast book was possibly my favorite for my needs right now. I liked seeing you really dig into some talented individuals.
What is next for you? One book that I think would be interesting is some exploration of East Coast modern homesteaders. I’ve got a bunch of friends in the Maine/NH area that are doing some pretty special things. A book I started, but shelved was interviewing Massachusetts Sawmills and photographing sawmills today and discuss the changing paradigm that sawmills are faced in a world lumber market. It’s a weird world.
Anyway, I’m just rambling, but just wanted to say thanks.
I document some of my homestead efforts on instagram @sherwood_homestead.
Chris Wood
Ravenswood Tree and Landscape LLC
Newton, NH 03858
Mickey Murch turning lemons into lemonade yesterday — stylin on a new design in mediocre surf.
Everyone on the beach was transfixed. In the eyes of an old surfer, it looked like science fiction.
This has a carbon fiber foil, is built by Axis/Flying Dutchman, about $2K, a beautiful design.
Sunny day last Tuesday. Water in cove (for swimming) was 63 degrees.
