Home Sweet Home

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.              Henry Ford



My Husband and I have been building a cabin for 8 months now, so I have decided to document our progress on my blog. I'll be updating anytime we make a significant improvement on it. We are actually planning to move it to a different location and live in it for 1-2 years. It's going to be quite the adventure because it is only 253 sq ft. Even though it is tiny I'm super excited to move in because this will be our first home that we have owned, and we won't have to pay rent. Thanks to pinterest I have found so many small kitchen ideas, and in general small living tips. There's currently  such a strong movement to decrease our impact on the earth, and that's why tiny houses have increased in popularity. It's going to be very interesting downsizing all of our belongings and deciding what's truly important to us. We have so many things that we appreciate but aren't really a necessity. So all that being said here is the start of this crazy journey.

                      Our trusty Dodge.

                        

          This is our Norwood Chainsaw sawmill, it was perfect for what we needed. 

  We used dead standing Ponderosa Pine. We have a large amount of bug kill around our house, so we had plenty to choose from.

                                           Butt and Pass was our joining method 

                       
It was exciting to see it take shape, we fortunately didn't have to peel the logs most of the bark came off easily.

                                                  Using them muscles!

                         Porch time, can't wait to put my rocking chair on it!

                            We cut out the door and the windows.

     
                                               Adding the perlins.

                                                   

You can finally tell it's a cabin, this was probably the most rewarding day. All our hard work was starting to pay off.

Rafters and strapping went on so quickly, it was so nice to work with lighter materials, that I could actually lift.

We found some old tin laying around that was in remarkably good quality. At first we thought we might have to do it patchwork style with all different coloured tin, but we surprisingly had enough white tin for the whole cabin.

Well that's it for now, I will update again next week as we've already added the loft, door, windows, and stove, but I thought it would be best to divide it into separate posts because of the amount of pictures that was going into this one.