Building a cabin in the woods, from log to lumber. An off-grid DIY project with friends.

Plans for sale:  A few years after our cabin burned in a wildfire Molly and I were inspired to build another where it stood. Just for funsies. This one would be much more humble. Less a tiny house and more a modern take on your basic alpine hut that stocks the essentials. 200 square feet, saltbox roof, unconventional and exposed framing, a simple kitchen. Room to comfortably sleep three. All the wood--other than the floor joists and plywood--was either chainsaw milled by us on site, or is salvage from a farm about 20 miles down the coast. It’s all redwood, except the doug fir floor. The trees we milled were all killed in the wildfire, then either fell in winter storms, or were felled by us. That wood was dried for about a year and the build took over a following five months.  Materials cost was $17,400. The bulk of that was in the salvaged old growth redwood ($7100) and the French doors and two sliding windo