Hi guys, Jacob here.
If I write a post, it's gotta start with a cool picture of Alaska.
We spotted these big bulls on the drive to the cabin site. They are going to be some nice bulls by hunting season.
So about that cabin. It's sure coming along!
We did get a ton done last week! Make sure you follow Ana on Instagram - she's been sharing live progress photos.
But none of this would have been poss
We've been busy working on the cabin six days a week, up to 12 hours a day. But honestly, I almost dread the one day off a week. In that one day off, I am busy preparing for the next week, making sure we don't run out of supplies, materials, or food for the next six days of working remote.
We also are winter camping on site, so I've been bringing home laundry and dishes home. I'm glad to be heading back to work today.
That's my excuse anyway for going so l
Hi everyone and Happy Monday!
Sorry about getting my latest post out to you so late this weekend (I aim for Friday) - our new smokehouse!
It's just a wood shed or outdoor closet - with a stove pipe plumbed into the back! We've been enjoying authentic smoked salmon strips, and plan on packing school lunches with them. Make sure you check out the smokehouse plans here - even if you don't need to process salmon, it would make a perfect outdoor shed or storage
Hello, and Happy Monday! Jacob here today, with a new post on building our cabin.
We've been very busy working on our cabin, and are happy to share that we've got the roof dryed in. I'll be posting more about this later on, but wanted to share a quick photo update with you.
Shared via Instagram. Make sure you follow me on Instagram too - I'm sharing progress photos and other random Alaska building stuff over there too.
None of this work would have be
While I've been making a mess in the interior of our Alaska lake cabin, good things are happening on the exterior.
It's time to put in windows and doors!
By the time we started hauling in windows and doors, the snow had melted, so we could not haul in via snow machine over the lake ice. Snow machine is preferred because the snow trails are smoother and the snow machine sled trailer is longer and can haul
Hi everyone, happy weekend!!! Are you planning on working on a project this weekend? We'd like to get down to our cabin and take care of a few things before snow falls. We ususally have snow sticking by mid October, and the mountains are already covered in snow. Our summers are so short up here in Alaska.
I've really been enjoying getting to go back through all my photos from our cabin build and share the build process with you. In my last post, I shared wi
Hello and Happy Monday!!!
For those of you new here or haven't been following along, from mid May to mid June of this year, we built a cabin in remote Alaska for DIY Network. Now that we have completed the cabin, and aren't working such extreme hours, we have been sharing the build process here on the blog. You can read all the posts here.
We wanted our cabin to be special and unique, so we decided to integate a timberframe roof system into a conventionally framed wall
