Nothing captures the beauty of the mountains or a forest setting quite like an A-frame home—but would you dare build one without any experience? That's precisely what Rob and Melinda Daniels did. The ...

There are a few different methods that can be used when framing a structure. For the climate cabin frame, our master carpenter, Mike Shellman, chose to go with a basic wood construction. It’s a common ...

Hear how Colette Kenny of Half-Acre Homestead moved from the city and learned how to build a cabin house suited for eco-friendly self-sufficient homesteading. In this episode of Mother Earth News and ...

Snow loads, –30 °C nights, and humid summer heatwaves test any cabin. A prefab kit that thrives in those extremes starts with a super-tight shell: thick wall assemblies, continuous insulation, and ...

In this video, we compare the costs of purchasing an A-frame cabin tiny homestead versus building one from scratch. Key considerations include the rising prices since the pandemic, the high cost of ...

Chris Broomfield, 50, had been in the carpentry contracting business for years when he decided to take what he's learned working on other people's homes and use it to help secure a lucrative future ...

Program: This A-frame cottage, on a jagged peninsula dipping into the Atlantic, is affectionally known as the “B-Frame.” It developed out of a two-week design-build course, taught by principal Peter ...