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Inspiring preservation work. Lots of sweat equity is required but proving to be a workable path to a mortgage-free home.
“Today’s One Minute Tip comes from Historic Preservation Carpenter Paul Cutting in Decorah, Iowa. He recently won an award for documenting log homes from pioneer times.” - Apartment Therapy
Read more about Paul Cutting: How to Get a Free House
One Minute Tip – How to Get a Free House from maxwell gillingham-ryan on Vimeo.
One of my readers, Schaun, saw one of these rolling down the highway in Colorado and later sent me a tip on this tiny house manufacturer.
They don’t provide a lot of information on their website but they the cabins look like the real deal mounted on something like a mobile home trailer. So for someone looking for a turn-key log cabin this might be an excellent option. Thanks again Schaun!
This is a small building made to look like a woodpile. It’s the office and music studio of Piet Hein Eek in The Netherlands but I see some excellent camouflaging ideas here.
I was recently introduced to this tiny house builder in Lithuania. They sell many small log homes that can serve as wooden summerhouses, garden houses, chalets, garages, and saunas. Using Google Translate you can read their website in English (although for some reason the images get turned off).
A new tiny builder is emerging in Colorado called Jalopy Cabins. The tiny log cabin in the photo is 140 square feet and is available for $10,000. Learn more about Jalopy Cabins at Tiny House Blog.
This is a great short story about a tiny vintage tourist cabin renovation at Tiny House Blog. It’s always exciting for me to run across examples of older tiny houses because living simply is not a new idea.
In fact I’d suggest that living in smaller homes has been the norm throughout human history. The new normal, these big expensive homes, are what is so new and quite possibly one of the reason’s we have trouble finding time for anything beyond working to pay for them. But I digress…
Read about this Vintage Tourist Cabin
Forrest Classics Log Homes in Colorado builds tiny log cabins on trailers. They don’t just look like traditional log cabins, they are log cabins. At first I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the photos because those things must weigh a ton! As it turns out they weigh 5 tons and the trailer has been beefed up to account for the massive weight of the log walls. Continue Reading…
These are some great little houses that can be built from a kit or plans from a company in Canada called Rangercabins. They are authentic square log timber framed buildings that come in four standard sizes and accomodate a lot of design flexibility so you can tailor the cabin to fit your needs. For more read the article at Tiny House Blog.
Here’s a great story about a young couple who buys five acres in Alaska and builds a log cabin with little previous construction experience. The house was made with things found right on the property, for example the countertops came from local rock, the spiral staircase came from local timber, and their toilet seat was made form a tree trunk. This is a great story about modern-day homesteaders. Read more at Tiny House Blog.