Off-grid cabins offer more than just rustic charm. Building with locally sourced materials reduces costs, while embracing ...

Earlier this year, we told you about two 70+ year-olds who were building a cabin at 9,500 feet in Wyoming's Snowy Range.

The older I get, the more I become convinced that the best thing for me is to move the hell away from everyone. Someplace quiet, deep in the woods, with naught but some billionaire jerk's Satellite ...

Learn how to build a cabin in the wilderness by watching the wind and light rotate through the property and following a cabin build from conception to completion. Long before I used string on stakes ...

Depending on your point of view, living in a log cabin may seem positively dreamy — or like a nightmare. If it’s the latter, you’re probably imagining a cabin without electricity on the frontier. If ...

The tiny concrete retreat packs in the storage, giving its owner a launchpad for skiing, running, and getting away from it all. Whether it’s cross-country skiing in the winter or trail running in the ...

As architects who ran their own firm for 26 years, Terri Cermak and Todd Rhoades have drafted blueprints for their fair share of clients. The opportunity to design for themselves came along when the ...

A Canadian woman bought a vintage truck in 2013 and built a wooden cabin on top of it. Kai found the truck on Craigslist and spent years building the cabin alone until she met her partner. She and her ...

A new collection of poems and prose by Department of English faculty members Tina Mozelle Braziel, MFA, and James Braziel, MFA, explores what it takes to do the hard work of making a home for ...

In 1947, Paul Hugo’s great-uncle built a small, 20-by-30-foot cabin in El Dorado National Forest near Lake Tahoe. It was his first time constructing a home, with only the help of his similarly ...