In past blog posts, I’ve mentioned both Lou Ureneck and Mark Van Roojen. If the Internet is the “Information SuperHighway”, then I guess you could call Mark, Lou, and I ”neighbors” on the same “Internet gravel road”. Mark had some weather slow downs during his trip west in June, and Lou spent time away from the
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John Letourneau’s blog at watchthehousegrow shares his cabin on his rural land in the Catskills. He writes:
After 20 years of various homes and renovations, it’s time to grow my first one from scratch.
via watchthehousegrow: house from field, vice versa.
Form and Forest is offering a new way to look at pre fabricated cabin building:
If you have ever dreamed of getting away to a contemporary piece of design your moment has arrived. We have worked hard to bring stunning design together with prefab manufacturing techniques that allow you to build a cabin and enjoy it
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I spent nearly 5 years as an armchair cabin builder — I had some loose ideas and visited web sites, but I didn’t own the ground. I read countless stories of other people’s building exploits. To be honest, even though I’ve read hundreds of stories, I never tire of hearing or reading about someone’s projects.
The summer has been typically hot, and on hot weekends, I don’t work as fast as other days. The roof rafters progress has been slow, but I finished securing the rafters Monday night. The rafters were cut in place and nailed at the walls, and were supported by Simpson brackets at the ridge beam .
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