Alaska Lake Cabin

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

After a full year of prepping,

Weeks of ordering materials, planning, and hauling in those materials, the day finally arrived when we could actually start building!

It was a cold day in mid-April, with clear skies and an optimistic crew.

We knew we'd only have two days of framing while the film crew from DIY Network was here, and I'd committed to having three walls up in that time.  Doesn't sound like alot - two days to have three walls up, right?  

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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

There's only one surface left in our cabin that we haven't installed the finished material on yet!

The downstairs floors.

I've had my heart set on hickory flooring, either laminate or hardwood depending on budget, from the beginning.  Have you not seen Melissa from The Inspired Room's floors?

Wouldn't this mix of wood tones be the perfect flooring for our Alaska lake cabin?  I showed our crew Melissa's floors, and they even loved it and were excited a

How was your weekend?

We headed down to our cabin for the weekend.  We are so thankful to have a place to get away for the weekend.  

Our cabin build will air this December on DIY Network.  When I get a confirmed time and date, I will share with you!  

It's been a little while since I've posted about our cabin build because we haven't been able to make it down there to grab a few photos I needed to complete these posts. &n

Hello, Jacob here today.

Ana's still traveling, making the most of her trip to Atlanta by taking a few days to film video for Ryobi.

The kids have been doing suprisingly well, especially the baby.  But we will all be happy to see mom in a couple of days.  Maybe we will take a few days off and head down to the cabin.

One of my favorite parts of our cabin is the front porch with it's gabled roof.

Not only does it give the cabin a grand enterance, it