Upgrading Rainwater Collection System Video At Our Cabin
This post is over 4 visits to the cabin. 3 solo because I really needed to get the heck out of the house and city from COVID lockdown and one trip with some close friends. Heading to...
Category: Cabins & Tiny Houses
Powell River Float Cabin
Margy and Wayne’s floating cabin near Powell River, British Columbia, Canada has to be one of the first cabins I saw when I first started researching small structures around 2007. Wayne is a writer and had a...
Builders Said This Site Was Impossible
This is my kind of project in my kind of place. Desolation Sound in BC is anything but desolate. So named by Captain George Vancouver in 1792 on account of the gloomy appearance of the surrounding country. It must...
UCO Gear Photoshoot at the Cabin
New Job Recently I got a new online marketing job with a company called UCO Gear, that makes outdoor essentials like fire-starting products and LED camping lanterns etc. Anyway, UCO needed a rustic location to photograph some of their new...
Cabin Build Update – 360 Video Tour
(This is a 360 video. You can spin around with your mouse so you don’ t have to look at me.) Cabin Work Trip Well I actually got up to the cabin before 2016 ended. This year had...
Mike Basich – Hand Built Mountain Cabin – (360 Video Tour)
If you followed this blog for a while you know I’m a big Mike Basich fan. The pro snowboarder has been innovating since he went pro in the 90’s. I’ll spare you a full bio but check...
Urban Sawmill With A Circular Saw – How To Make
Here’s a really handy guy building a bench top sawmill for home use. He uses a circular saw with a chain attachment and some serious welding skills to build it. He plans to harvest wasted logs from...
Setting up Off Grid Property – 6 Month Update – McGarvey Style
Winter is on it’s way time to put things away and get ready at the McGarvey Homestead. Ron shows us what he’s done after 6 months of owning the place. I’m loving his underground storage / shipping...
New Series – Harsh Reality | Off Grid Alaska
I just stumbled upon a new Youtube series called ‘Harsh Reality | Off Grid Alaska’ that is following a family that moved to 40 acres in the Alaskan bush 3 years ago. Three generations moved from the...
Kristie Wolfe Builds an Amazing Underground Hobit House
Kristie Wolfe is great at finding cheap land in beautiful spots. Building from her success creating a Hawaiian treehouse on land she bought for around $8000, she sought land in the Pacific Northwest. She scored a piece...
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