Alaska Lake Cabin

Rustic Modern Platform Bed Frame with Headboard (All Bed Sizes)

Simple 1x12 Bench or Bedside Table

front porch bench rustic x design easy to build

Large Outdoor Bench with X Backs

Loft Stairs - Alternating Tread Space Saving Stairs for Loft

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

Insulating a Timberframe Roof Build Up

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

Apr 13

Designing Our Remote Alaska Lake Cabin

Thank you all for all the nice comments and likes last week! We couldn't be more excited to have this opportunity to build a dream cabin in Alaska, share the process with you through blogging, and if that wasn't enough, get to work with DIY Network to film it all!

When our new baby was just nine days old, we took a quick trip down to look over the property that we had just purchased, and I had not yet seen. There was several feet of snow, so we could not find t

Jun 29

Building our Cabin - Timber Framing for Upstairs Loft

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

Aug 17

DIY Loft Floor Wood Ceiling for our Alaska Lake Cabin

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

Oct 08

Cabin Kitchen Reveal with Sources

This summer, on our free weekends, we've been working on a boat-in only project in remote Alaska. It's a tiny house sized cabin, on a lake about two hours from our home.

At just under 400 square feet on the main level, this project is quite a challenge - especially if multiple families are using the cabin at the same time. That means 10-12 people need to be able to sit on the main level, eat comfortably, and there has to be enough beds for everyone.