Review: Compact Cabins

Compact Cabins: Simple Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less by Gerald Rowan is a nice book to give you some beginning ideas on building a small dwelling. There are 62 plan idea in the book, most of which are very unique. There are even a handful of designs that utilize shipping containers [...]

Video Series on Shed Building

Fine Homebuilding is a tremendous resource for everything related to quality construction and woodworking projects. They’ve now just completed a video series on building a shed. There are 16 short videos in all going all the way from an overview of the project to a basic block foundation to framing to installing lap [...]

Free Plans from U of Tennesee

Another reader passed along this link to a great website by the University of Tennessee Extension. There’s a wealth of information there! Most of the plans are for agricultural related buildings like barns and sheds, but there are a few for simple cabins.

The plans come in pdf format that are printable on [...]