How I Built Our Cordwood / Stackwall Cottage 2 of 2

My name is Heather and it is my pleasure, as DIY (Do It Yourself) Editor to welcome you to the newest, brightest and possibly the best internet magazine any where on YouTube, CDmagz! Please feel free to post your video response of any DIY project you've done or are working on.

If you haven't seen part 1 of 2, go back and watch it first. Yes, I'm serious - a lot of part 2 won't make sense if you haven't seen part 1 yet.

After finishing the wall, I sanded down all of the inside log ends. Yes - every.....single....one of them. I didn't put anything on to seal them afterwards because I want the logs to breathe.

The next step (which I don't have photos of) was using a special cement sealer on the floor, then painting it a light yellow to counteract the grey of the cement in the walls.

A year or so later, I went back and painted the walls a low-gloss grey, to cut down on the cement dust and add a bit more brightness to the building.

And then last year, I had to remove the roof covering totally and replace it with crushed stone. You'll see the story of that in my six videos, Replacing Our Cottage Roof. I also have three walking-tour videos of the cottage that I've uploaded to YouTube, so enjoy!

The background music during the video is from my first album, Medieval Cottage Songs - which I actually recorded at the cottage. How cool is that?

The first composition is Green Leaves Dancing Outside My Window; the second is Killaloe. I hope you enjoy them.

Also, the guitars I use were all made by myself.

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[oldrockfan]

cool little house. Very environmentally friendly too.

[CDmagz]

Yes, we wanted to make it as environmentally friendly as possible.

Gerald

[Brunettebabe2]

what a gorgeous place! Great Vid! I want to live there! =)

[CDmagz]

Thank you! We're heading there soon for the first time since Thanksgiving, and we're soooo anxious to get there!!

Gerald

[sonicflyingmachine]

There should be more videos like this.

[CDmagz]

Wow, that's quite the compliment.  Thank you!

[tommy369ts]

I'm building one!!! but i'm going to use bigger logs .

[ekundayowt]

thanks

[kazbluesky]

Thank you so much for these 2 videos. They were very inspiring.

[neuroleptika]

Thanks for the video, i was interesting. How much money did you spend on the whole thing? The house came out beautiful, but damn you americans have awful taste when it comes to interiour design haha...I enjoyed the guitar to!

[IrlDave71]

very cool design and finish...i can see it was hard work but i'm sure it was worth it........serenity indeed

[packingone]

Very nice. Don't think I've ever seen anything like it before. The texture of the walls is just amazing to look at and I'm sure extremely strong.

[GeraldBoyClassical]

The centre post is a hemlock tree that we cut from our property. The rafters are 5 inch by 10 inch spruce. Sounds like you're really getting into this! It's a lot of work, but it's really worth it.

[GeraldBoyClassical]

Well, she was only able to help on weekends, but she did her best !

[GMPresents]

Sorry to ask this again, but could you provide any details about the centre post and rafter construction? BTW: I've bought a Cordwood book by Bull Ding, good read.

[davideli7879]

great job, all round. it must be great to have a wife that will work with you like that, mine do that..lol her fav saying..