Designing a practical and usable log cabin isn’t easy. The planning stage of a log cabin build is the single most important stage. Spend enough time on this stage and your build will be successful.

Hear how Colette Kenny of Half-Acre Homestead moved from the city and learned how to build a cabin house suited for eco-friendly self-sufficient homesteading. In this episode of Mother Earth News and ...

After building the log cabin alone in the forest for over a year I now embark the next years challenges Last year I ventured out found a suitable spot chopped down and dragged the necessary trees and ...

In this episode, we complete the last saddle notches and finish hewing the two eave logs flat. We construct and install 8 floor joists for the second floor, preparing to start building the roof. We ...

At the age of 81, Charles “Mac” McRaven still can swing a goosewing broadax with the authority of a young Abe Lincoln. Through the decades, the Albemarle County author and master craftsman has built ...

Summertime and the living is, well, hot—which makes a roaring campfire a bit of a problem. But if you lay the right foundation, you can build a great summer blaze that puts out plenty of light with ...

After a thorough renovation with the help of their dad, the older camper became a cozy abode. It has a warm furnace and space ...

If you’ve driven the coast route from Santa Barbara to the Santa Ynez Valley in the past 10 years, then you’ve seen this house. Past Refugio and Gaviota beaches, through the famous tunnel featured in ...

Shawn James is very good at building cabins in the woods. Working under the YouTube name My Self Reliance, he silently goes through the step-by-step process of building a cabin in the Canadian forest.