Our Portable Building Cabin Adventure Begins Dick Proenneke is a name familiar to many who have made the decision to…
Some of my earliest memories were of gluing paper together to make something in kindergarten. My materials then were pieces…
When a neighbor offered us an old outbuilding—one that was in fairly good repair but that he’d no longer wanted—Pythagoras,…
What is your ideal house-size? Is it 1,000 square-feet? 2,000 square feet or more? Right now across the country, many…
Repeat after me, “Blocking, blocking, blocking!” If there is one thing on a rent-to-own storage building to cabin conversion that…
Prior to the invention of wire fencing, farmers still had to contain their livestock. They used what they had on…
This article is inspired by the craftsmanship and elegance of early American homebuilding and traditional homestead construction. Further, it endeavors…
Imagine that you are outside working in your garden. You have been out since 6:30 a.m., and now that cool…
Five years ago, my husband and I designed and built our backyard chicken coop. The design was based on photos of…
There are several options available to the new landowner-slash-rural-inhabitant, some appealing, some viable, some neither one. It all depends on…
If you are thinking and have been reading about Alternative and Natural Building styles, this is one of those things…
As some of you may know from reading my Missouri Journal, I have been building a house on my 12-acre…