Designing a practical and usable log cabin isn’t easy. The planning stage of a log cabin build is the single most important stage. Spend enough time on this stage and your build will be successful.

Shawn James is very good at building cabins in the woods. Working under the YouTube name My Self Reliance, he silently goes through the step-by-step process of building a cabin in the Canadian forest.

In the previous entry, we discussed debarking spuds and drawknives. We’re going to continue discussing other ways to prepare your logs for the next step in log cabin building. This time we’re going to ...

Canadian outdoorsman and woodworker Shawn James built an entire log cabin using hand tools. And he filmed it in timelapse - condensing the entire building process into a five minute YouTube video.

If you're dreaming about building a cabin, permits can feel like the part that takes all the fun out of it. I get it. Most people want to think about the view, the layout, the wood stove, and where to ...