Videos like this make me ache a little because it will be a very long time before I have the money to do this. I find your videos very encouraging and very detailed. What fine projects you have completed.
Thanks Noah for reiterating some fundamental characteristics/elements which to assist us in achieving our version of a dream/ home. While this cabin may in fact be THE perfect log cabin, unique, subtle, and individual changes will aid us from beginning a cookie cutter cabin. . . even though I highly doubt a trend is starting. Keep a good thought, Bob.
Just one more plug. His corses are a true bargain. Very understandable! No fake HollyWood film flam just Quality from times past. It doesn’t get more real than this folks. I don’t regret penny spent here. Cheaper than a collage class!
Regarding your "Timeless Design" point, are you familiar with Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" and his subsequent work? I find "A Pattern Language" to be good food for thought and descriptive of elements that can be found in good architectural designs, but difficult to apply when working from a blank slate. Some of the later stuff he and his group have done on generative procedures may be a bit easier to put to use, but I haven't really tried, yet. I'm back on an architectural jag again, after pursuing some mechanical projects, so I may have opportunity to give it a go. Anyway, I hope you'll take at as the high praise I intend when I say that your work - your attention to both function and aesthetics, your use of traditional methods and materials to achieve them, and your role as both designer and master of works during the build - reminds me of Alexander's architectural designs. Thanks for providing all of this information. Your teaching is superb - and inspiring!
I appreciate that, Kevin! Yes, I am familiar with the work. It is a deep book that continually sparks contemplation. What is interesting is how pioneer builders often naturally tended towards a scale that remains aesthetically appealing, even when they faced personal limitations. In other words, our forebears, whether in this country or abroad, often "nailed it" in terms of design. That is why I seek to imitate those structures that resonate with me the most with their design and scale. With that said, it is a high complement for sure, but either way the book is one of those that is worth consideration as you go about what resonates with you in the design/build process.
I am looking at a home in northwest Ohio. Their is a bottom course log (sill log) with rot. Is there a log cabin repair contractor you would recommend?
Tiny house/ Cabin. The past is the best teacher of “building the right cabin” In the US- the majority of the natives where tribes always “on the move” they went where the bison’s or other 4 leg food went. They were “RV experts” tent experts that’s for Shure. But some tribes lived in real homes some in big city built in rocks Or out of wood and clay. The Spanish brought also a special home building style but they did not come to stay they where hunting for gold if I am right. The settler culture from the European countries brought the traditional cabin or home buildings styles with them. The early settlers from England had their own building style. One of the best YT teaching canals is the one from NORTHMEN. One house builder is an expert. Its “sweet to watch” and you can learn the old technics or styles. The name of the video is: “The Birth Of A Wooden House. Extended” “Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process”. Also “Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process - 16mm Film Scan - English Version” Building right can give 100 or 200 years of joy with a cabin. And fore sure, a cabin in bear land must be bear prove! Or Woolfe proof! My grandfather was a lawyer and lived in Dortmund in Germany. He was married with my grandma- a Jew and they got 6 kids. He built a cabin in the Forrest in “Dortmund-Hörde“ right bevor Adolf Hitler came into power. He loved to hunt and with the cabin he “rented” the forest from the GOV and was in charge “as a chief Hunter” and Forrest doctor. I don’t know why but he always had 6 hunting dogs “Deutsch Kurzhaar”. The fundament was a 50 centimeter stone wall- ca.50 centimeter in the deep of the earth and from the edge of the earth the wall was 100 centimeter high and on that he put ca. 20 centimeter logs. The cellar was a “Kriechkeller” it was such a good climax that there was space for potatoes and so one. It was dry dark but had 4 holes 20 centimeterx40 centimeter protected against mice or insects for ventilation-cross ventilation. The floor had 10 centimeter wooden planks. The bathroom (now 100 years old) is still in the same style. That time off grid and later on grid. I thing the cabin had 300 square feet (100 quadrat meter in German) 1 big kitchen with one fireplace/cooking 1 big living room 1 fireplace and in the second floor 2 sleeping rooms. The oven pipes where brought through the sleeping rooms so they gave the heat into the rooms while they oven is in the first floor. The roove had big overhang so that no time rain would touch the wood the wall. Also a “must have”: Solid shutters for protection against storm or wild live or bad boys. Surly a mudroom. 2 window glasses with air space (20 centimeter) for a perfect isolation. The shutters also is a good isolation support. Sun protection and cold protection. My grandmother survived the holocaust in that cabin and the family was able to produce food. When the English throw millions of tons of grenades from heaven on the German citys the family was safe in that cabin. The heard and saw the firestorms from the bombs but they where happy to be outside of the city and the places where Hitlers important war-industries was located. My perfect cabin: I would be small and build traditional. For 2 person and guest beds. Stone foundation big logs and only one floor. As smaller and deeper the ceiling is- the few wood for the oven is needed no cathedral building where the heat flees to the top and the body is cold and the feeds are frozen in winter. A ground oven traditional is also a must have. Shutters and a mudroom. Max 20 feed x 15 feed. The “oven thing” A ground oven is a system that is well known for hundreds of years. Its called “the ground oven” and it is build one a concrete/Stones/bricks foundation where you want your heating place in a cabin. Foundation and then bricks until the floor and there the ground oven could stand. The foundation can be by 120 centimeter120 centimeter. In some states in Germany/Austria/Switzerland housebuilders or log house owners build "Ground oven" in German "Grundofen" they are handmade from a "oven mason" a master- or self-made- they are out of bricks, stones, clay and they have between 800 KGs or 7000 KGs some of them have 3 different functions- heating cooking and producing hot water for shower or other "water radiator"...some are "mobile ones" build in a fabric. They can cost 50.000 US$ for big log homes (because 2 men have to work every day 10 hours on such an oven! (the big ones for a big house- the mobile ones can cost 6000 US$). On YT is a good teaching video with the title "Aufbau eines Kachel - Grundofens" (into the search). Its fun to watch. This kind of oven are "on the market" for hundreds of years. And they need not much wood but they "keep the heat" for 24 hours if it is once hot! End even after stopping to put new wood in them- the rest-heat is so strong that it keeps the house warm for 24 hours! The reason is the heat storage capability of bricks or clay. Also good pics in "Brunner Kachelofen Warmluft und Speicherofen" Also the carpenter of the YT “Fouch family” had built a simple one. On such an oven you can build a seat or a place where you can sleep on. Many Bavarian Cabs in the mountain have them with nice ceramic as “decoration” Ceramic is also a good heat storage.
Videos like this make me ache a little because it will be a very long time before I have the money to do this. I find your videos very encouraging and very detailed. What fine projects you have completed.
Love this guy! “ He’s like a Canoe with paddles !!
This is a great video, Noah! The quality of your videos is getting better and better. Please keep the content coming!
Thanks! Will do!
Yes I would love to have a cabin like this,huh my dream since I was 15 years old!!!
Thanks for all of your kind comments! Time to live that dream! :)
You're welcome and yes I would love that dream coming true.
Thanks Noah for reiterating some fundamental characteristics/elements which to assist us in achieving our version of a dream/ home. While this cabin may in fact be THE perfect log cabin, unique, subtle, and individual changes will aid us from beginning a cookie cutter cabin. . . even though I highly doubt a trend is starting. Keep a good thought, Bob.
Thank you Bob for your comment and for following along!
Fantastic job....
They are amazing log cabins Sir. I am also intending to build a cabin, once I able to buy a land.
Cute! And with hair! Same Stash!
Just one more plug. His corses are a true bargain. Very understandable! No fake HollyWood film flam just Quality from times past. It doesn’t get more real than this folks. I don’t regret penny spent here. Cheaper than a collage class!
Beautiful cabin! You mentioned reducing the size to cut cost. Do you recall the dimensions of the log cabin without the lean-to?
Roughly 16x22
Great video! Is this the Madison cabin?
Thank you and Yes!
Regarding your "Timeless Design" point, are you familiar with Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" and his subsequent work?
I find "A Pattern Language" to be good food for thought and descriptive of elements that can be found in good architectural designs, but difficult to apply when working from a blank slate. Some of the later stuff he and his group have done on generative procedures may be a bit easier to put to use, but I haven't really tried, yet. I'm back on an architectural jag again, after pursuing some mechanical projects, so I may have opportunity to give it a go.
Anyway, I hope you'll take at as the high praise I intend when I say that your work - your attention to both function and aesthetics, your use of traditional methods and materials to achieve them, and your role as both designer and master of works during the build - reminds me of Alexander's architectural designs.
Thanks for providing all of this information. Your teaching is superb - and inspiring!
I appreciate that, Kevin! Yes, I am familiar with the work. It is a deep book that continually sparks contemplation. What is interesting is how pioneer builders often naturally tended towards a scale that remains aesthetically appealing, even when they faced personal limitations. In other words, our forebears, whether in this country or abroad, often "nailed it" in terms of design. That is why I seek to imitate those structures that resonate with me the most with their design and scale. With that said, it is a high complement for sure, but either way the book is one of those that is worth consideration as you go about what resonates with you in the design/build process.
I am looking at a home in northwest Ohio. Their is a bottom course log (sill log) with rot. Is there a log cabin repair contractor you would recommend?
None, that I can recommend at this time!
Tiny house/ Cabin.
The past is the best teacher of “building the right cabin”
In the US- the majority of the natives where tribes always
“on the move” they went where the bison’s or other 4 leg food
went. They were “RV experts” tent experts that’s for Shure.
But some tribes lived in real homes some in big city built in rocks
Or out of wood and clay.
The Spanish brought also a special home building style but they did not come to stay they where hunting for gold if I am right.
The settler culture from the European countries brought the traditional cabin or home buildings styles with them.
The early settlers from England had their own building style.
One of the best YT teaching canals is the one from NORTHMEN.
One house builder is an expert. Its “sweet to watch” and you can learn the old technics or styles. The name of the video is:
“The Birth Of A Wooden House. Extended” “Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process”. Also “Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process - 16mm Film Scan - English Version”
Building right can give 100 or 200 years of joy with a cabin.
And fore sure, a cabin in bear land must be bear prove! Or Woolfe proof!
My grandfather was a lawyer and lived in Dortmund in Germany. He was married with my grandma- a Jew and they got 6 kids. He built
a cabin in the Forrest in “Dortmund-Hörde“ right bevor Adolf Hitler came into power. He loved to hunt and with the cabin he “rented” the forest from the GOV and was in charge “as a chief Hunter” and Forrest doctor.
I don’t know why but he always had 6 hunting dogs “Deutsch Kurzhaar”.
The fundament was a 50 centimeter stone wall- ca.50 centimeter in the deep of the earth and from the edge of the earth the wall was 100 centimeter high and on that he put ca. 20 centimeter logs. The cellar was a “Kriechkeller” it was such a good climax that there was space for potatoes and so one. It was dry dark but had 4 holes 20 centimeterx40 centimeter protected against mice or insects for ventilation-cross ventilation. The floor had 10 centimeter wooden planks. The bathroom (now 100 years old) is still in the same style. That time off grid and later on grid. I thing the cabin had 300 square feet (100 quadrat meter in German) 1 big kitchen with one fireplace/cooking 1 big living room 1 fireplace and in the second floor 2 sleeping rooms. The oven pipes where brought through the sleeping rooms so they gave the heat into the rooms while they oven is in the first floor.
The roove had big overhang so that no time rain would touch the wood the wall. Also a “must have”: Solid shutters for protection against storm or wild live or bad boys. Surly a mudroom. 2 window glasses with air space (20 centimeter) for a perfect isolation. The shutters also is a good isolation support. Sun protection and cold protection.
My grandmother survived the holocaust in that cabin and the family was able to produce food. When the English throw millions of tons of grenades from heaven on the German citys the family was safe in that cabin. The heard and saw the firestorms from the bombs but they where happy to be outside of the city and the places where Hitlers important war-industries was located.
My perfect cabin:
I would be small and build traditional. For 2 person and guest beds.
Stone foundation big logs and only one floor. As smaller and deeper the ceiling is- the few wood for the oven is needed no cathedral building where the heat flees to the top and the body is cold and the feeds are frozen in winter.
A ground oven traditional is also a must have.
Shutters and a mudroom.
Max 20 feed x 15 feed.
The “oven thing”
A ground oven is a system that is well known for hundreds of years.
Its called “the ground oven” and it is build one a concrete/Stones/bricks foundation where you want your heating place in a cabin. Foundation and then bricks until the floor and there the ground oven could stand. The foundation can be by 120 centimeter120 centimeter.
In some states in Germany/Austria/Switzerland housebuilders or log house owners build "Ground oven" in German "Grundofen" they are handmade from a "oven mason" a master- or self-made- they are out of bricks, stones, clay and they have between 800 KGs or 7000 KGs some of them have 3 different functions- heating cooking and producing hot water for shower or other "water radiator"...some are "mobile ones" build in a fabric. They can cost 50.000 US$ for big log homes (because 2 men have to work every day 10 hours on such an oven! (the big ones for a big house- the mobile ones can cost 6000 US$). On YT is a good teaching video with the title "Aufbau eines Kachel - Grundofens" (into the search). Its fun to watch. This kind of oven are "on the market" for hundreds of years. And they need not much wood but they "keep the heat" for 24 hours if it is once hot! End even after stopping to put new wood in them- the rest-heat is so strong that it keeps the house warm for 24 hours! The reason is the heat storage capability of bricks or clay. Also good pics in "Brunner Kachelofen Warmluft und Speicherofen" Also the carpenter of the YT “Fouch family” had built a simple one. On such an oven you can build a seat or a place where you can sleep on. Many Bavarian Cabs in the mountain have them with nice ceramic as “decoration” Ceramic is also a good heat storage.
Master Craftsman! Awesome! 😊 May Our Holy God Yeshuah bless you always in Jesus Christ name , Amen