After nearly 30 years of living and working in Madison, Wisconsin, we longed for a rural home. We’d spent several frustrating years looking for rural property, but anything with livable buildings ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. -- A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It's part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. — A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It’s part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...

Standing in the airy, pine-ceilinged main room in her dodecahedral cordwood house in South Paris, surrounded by mortared walls dotted with the cut ends of logs, Sophia Maamouri says she wanted her ...

Cordwood fit Stankevitz's desire to use an economical, natural, renewable, readily available building material that would result in an energy-efficient, low-maintenance house. And compared with ...

La CRESCENT -- You see a pile of firewood. Alan Stankevitz sees a house. At least, that's what you get, Stankevitz says, if you combine thousands of chunks of wood, tons of mortar made of cement, sand ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. - A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It's part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...

Meet the Mermaid Cottage, a little home that looks like it came out of a fairytale. This dwelling was made out of cordwood and stained glass bottles. It has a gorgeous interior filled with unique ...