Month: September 2024

Now that the cabin is sealed up it’s time to start looking at the inside. We chose to go with pine flooring from a local mill and an IKEA kitchen. Although we looked at used options this just seemed to

We decided to splurge a little on the front windows. These are the main viewing windows and where any light will come from. Problem of course is that a 6-8 week delivery turns into a 10+ week delivery and time

For a year I’ve been watching YouTube videos on how to set up a solar system and collecting the parts needed to add a little power to our DIY cabin. We do have a Honda generator that we have used

Well we finally get to the point in the programme where the roof gets put on. Thanks to a lot of help from a son who shall remain nameless, the trusses are all cut to near perfections and they are

Things are starting to come together! The floor is done and we’re on to the walls. .The goal of course is to get a roof before the rain can damage the work we’ve done so far. The cabin is 24′

It can be difficult to get all your materials into the building site when it’s literally 7 KM from the nearest main road. Even though we had the road extended last summer to reach our building site the challenge remains.

When you’re building in the middle of nowhere it takes awhile to get all your ducks in a row. You need to clean up and pick up where you left off from the season before, and that’s exactly what we

One of the hardest jobs we have had to tackle so far has been digging and pouring foundation piers. While the soil is mostly sand it is still a big job to dig down the 5′ necessary to avoid frost

In April 2024 as the snow melted our attention turned back to Kyla’ dream of building a cabin in the woods. With the shebunky complete we aimed to get the larger cabin done before the snow flies again. Unfortunately spring