WEST CHAZY, N.Y. — The dumbest robins in New York state live on a ledge outside Rob Roy’s kitchen window. Or at least they would like to roost there. On a recent Monday morning, Roy, 65, and his wife, ...

Learn about the advantages of building a home using cordwood construction. Unabashedly, I admit to two great love affairs in my life: with Jaki, my wife of 30 years, and (this one is shared with Jaki) ...

"Cordwood Building" collects the wisdom of more than 25 of the world's best practitioners, detailing the long history of the method, and demonstrating how to build a cordwood home using the latest and ...

Earthwood, in upstate New York, was built using cordwood masonry. Rob and Jaki Roy laid cedar logs into a wall. Photographs by Tony Cenicola / The New York Times WEST CHAZY, New York - Rob and Jaki ...

Standing in the airy, pine-ceilinged main room in her dodecahedral cordwood house in South Paris, surrounded by mortared walls dotted with the cut ends of logs, Sophia Maamouri says she wanted her ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. -- A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It's part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Richard Flateau built a cordwood home 35 years ago as an eco-friendly way to live mortgage free. He and his wife, Becky, read a magazine article about a man from New Brunswick, ...