Offgridburbia - Homesteading in the Suburbs

March 26, 2024

Earth Berm Cottage, Foundation, Plumbing, Timber Framing

It [an outdoor shower] changed my life. Brian Pontolilo, The Fine Homebuilding Podcast, Episode 5 One of my more unorthodox […]

March 17, 2024

Animals, Foundation, Gardening, Homesteading, Quail, Timber Framing

Before building the cabin I raised Coturnix quail. I experimented with a variety of enclosures with the goal of giving […]

October 23, 2023

Homesteading, Workshops

We’re starting a series of workshops in November to take on small homestead projects. We’ll start off with making Adirondack […]

August 30, 2023

Earth Berm Cottage, Roof

We installed the living roof on the cottage over the course of several days that were spread over many months. […]

April 14, 2023

Earth Berm Cottage, Natural Building

The cottage can officially be called the Earth Berm Cottage now. Check out our latest video here: And here some […]

April 6, 2023

Cob, Earth Berm Cottage, Natural Building

During a build I’ll inevitably get hung up on some detail that bogs me down. I just can’t wrap my […]

March 27, 2023

Earth Berm Cottage, Natural Building, Plumbing

The cottage has finally transitioned to being the earth berm cottage. Quite a bit when into the berm so I’ll […]

March 22, 2023

Cob, Earth Berm Cottage, Natural Building

We decided to put an earthen floor in the cottage because we wanted to minimize the amount of concrete used […]

Really, really nice work. Now your cabin is bigger and still feels like a cabin! Great job, Aaron!

I remember putting that window in. Glad the screws were easy to remove.

No, the cottage is more humid than our cabin but I haven't noticed any moisture at the grade beam/floor connection.

Hey great stuff and thanks for sharing this. I'd love to know if you've noticed any moisture getting trapped between…

As I say every time - you can't have too much insulation. Looking forward to experiencing the enlarged room very…

[…] covered the rationale behind the expansion here and made a post about building the subfloor months ago. Due some…

Ingenious. I might not be keeping up with current affairs, But to put the insulation on to the bottom of…

Wow! Good solution! You are braver than I to crawl under your house!

[…] week I started Phase 2 to the Timberframe cabin expansion. Here is the plan overview if you haven’t seen…