Alaska Lake Cabin

So I commited the great sin of painting all the walls white.

Well, off white ... and in the natural light, it really looks more like the intentionally blah color of primer, shouting, repaint me!!!

Or in this case, either start the biggest sanding job of your life or learn how to do a faux wood painting technique.

But I gotta keep my poker face on and pretend I love it and be strong.  As soon as I show any doubt in my decisions, the crew will

Happy Monday!!!

Can you believe we are just over a month into building and have gone from this -

Into this -

I can hardly believe it myself!

We've been working long hours, and we've got help - two of my husband's friends (pictured on the roof with Jacob) and our Uncle Bill have been vital to progress, and my sister has been babysitting when she can.  

But a big part of the reason this cabin has gone up so fast is we spent a couple

Hello, Jacob here today, with a cabin post update.

I have to admit that when we started thinking about building our cabin using a timberframe roof system, I was hesitant.  Up here in Alaska, where we have extreme cold winters, one side of your roof (especially with heat trapped at the peak) could be 100 degrees, and on the other side, it could be -60 below.  If not done right, this could become a condensation nightmare.

When it comes to building, I like to go the tried a

Summer is winding down for us here in Alaska.  We spent the weekend fishing for silver Salmon off the coast of Alaska, and broke up our trip home by staying the night in our cabin that we built earlier this year with DIY Network (will be airing later this year, will let you know when we know!).

Each time we come to our cabin, we fall in love all over again with it.  It was a ton of work.  There were long hours, long days, long weeks of hard manual labor, building remote a

Hi everyone, Happy Monday!!!

We got a chance to sneak down to our cabin this weekend and pick some blueberries, and grab a few images for our DIY Network show that will air sometime this fall (will let you know as soon as we know on an air date!).

I still can't believe we built that cabin in just a couple of months!  Of course, everything was so rushed and under a tighter schedule because of the filming, but still!  So it's fun to get to go back