5 First Steps to Building Your Cordwood Masonry Home
So you’ve found yourself a piece of land to call your own and you’ve decided you’re going to build a mortgage free cordwood masonry home. If you’re like me, the first thing you want to do is decide what home design will best suit your lifestyle. But before you do that, it’s a good idea to do some homework. There are many factors that can dramatically affect your design decisions. So here are 5 Steps I wish I’d taken before I came up with my first design for Lakewood Hollow. They would have saved me a lot of time and effort. Step 1 — Visit your local...
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Cordwood Masonry construction is an alternative, cost efficient, labor intensive method for building homes and outbuildings. It’s rugged beauty is often mistaken for stone masonry when viewed from any distance, but cordwood masonry is much warmer both to the touch and to live in. Many impromptu visitors to Lakewood Hollow would not believe it was wood, until they actually touched the walls and felt the warm rich texture. Besides the beauty, there are many reasons to build a cordwood masonry home. If you have the drive to do most of the work yourself,...
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