Making our Tiny Cabin a Home 

Oh I absolutely LOVE your candle centerpiece: Rustic yet elegant. Did you you make it or purchase it?.

As a fellow Daytonian, I really like how you guys support local business, especially given the trying times they have had to endure. New sub, ironically heard about you guys from Jay and Jen's channel. Been binge watching your content, love the craftsmanship and attention to detail... not only on your cabin but your videography and editing. Great work looking forward to more!

I enjoy your videos, would watch with "premiere" notice or not. Hope it gets you some additional subscribers in the long run, keep the videos coming. I'm likely not alone saying your content, delivery and production is terrific.

Your cabin is looking really nice 👍 thanks for posting 🙂

I really enjoy watching these cabin builds and this is probably my favourite for a variety of reasons (skill, attention to detail, etc) but in particular is it looks like it will be comfortable to stay in with no need to rough it.

Great video as always. And Beatrice is a awesome pup.

I think it's beautiful watching the snow fall outside. Beatrice is a great dog, she'll learn, with patience and training. Your doing a great job on the cabin, your a good husband and provider.

Always nice to see your videos come out. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love you work, attention to detail, the love and time you spend on everything. Id never be able to do that, i'd make things the right way just faster! I was brought up to achieve results as quckly as possible so slowing down to show attention to detail is like the most difficult thing for me. I also love Boss of the Swamp been watching him for a few years now. Happy to see the ladies came with you this time. Waiting excitedly for the next installment of you cabin build. Take your time building I enjoy your journey! Much love from So.Cal.💟

Great video! I don’t know why RU-vid hasn’t recommended your channel to me until now, but I’m so glad that I found it! Your humility and relaxed transparency is really appealing. It’s awesome that you don’t do the clickbait garbage. Stick with integrity regardless of the number of subscribers. It matters way more. I recommended a friend to this channel; you remind me of him and I think he would enjoy this a lot. I’ve been catching up on 4 years of videos! Thanks again!

Yes , closed cell spray foam ! It makes vapor barrier, stops smallest leaks, and best keeps bugs and rodents away. As for water pipes dig down past frost line and build your rigid foam box down to that level, earth will heat the box and keep lines free.

I had the same recall problem with my brittany bird dog. I took her back to the breeder who is a bird dog trainer and had her trained to an electric collar when she was 15 months old. He trained her to recall, to yoo (get ahead of me) and to heal (very loose heal). That training set her FREE, FREE, FREE! I take her to a local park to run like the wind and hunt to her hearts content 3 or 4 times a week. Her recall is bomb proof from a football field away. She will be 11yrs old in August and still runs like the wind. I think she is aging so well because she is allowed to run freely often and able to keep her muscles and joints stretched out. I wouldn't attempt to train her myself with an electric collar because done incorrectly, it is torture. My dog is so high energy she just can't walk on a leash and she can only "heal" for short distances like crossing a street or getting around other dogs. I do have to "pop" her occasionally (~ 1/2 times every few weeks) if I have to say a command twice (healing is her hardest thing). The collar and training was very expensive (~$1000) but it was so worth it for my dog.

It’s looking so nice. I can’t wait for a new video to drop each week. I think we all would like to see more shingle videos though🤣.

I enjoy you and Sarah together -- warms my heart to see you both -- live a long happy life together -- best of everything -- just one more suggestion -- install back stairs and railing and front railing -- one slip trip or fall -- and you'll be wishing you had -- include the shower. step and get some ice melt for the same reason -- you have done well. and Thanks PS just want the safest for you three.

Skirting the whole cabin will greatly help too . Keep up the great work.

Cute candle! Love your cabin in the woods. Nice that you are making the pond larger next summer. Will be stunning.

I have a seasonal cabin that I hope to use more throughout the year when I retire. So inspiring to watch you guys get to work on yours - helps me plan my next steps

Add heat tape and use it when you are at the cabin. With the fan and heat tape you can easily have hot and cold running water no matter how cold it gets. Have a cottage on Lake Winni in NH. BUILT A insulated box around all my plumbing, use heat tape and a fan to blow heated air from cottage while being used. Never frozen pipes and gets below zero. Drain system when leave. We have it set up so it’s very easy to use. GOOD LUCK GUYS‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸

What a difference a month makes. We're all excited on Dec 24th to have snow, but by the end of January it's unwanted. Love your videos and your place is really progressing with lovely craftsmanship.

Just an awesome job with the cabin and very well thought out , great workmanship , what a tranquil and peaceful place you and Sara have built also love the dog she's good girl ,

Sarah quit rippin on Mike, the shingles will get done! That place is unbelievable, the true craftsmanship and heart equity is bar none!!!👊🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Congrats on 60K subscribers!!!!!

Good job ! I think you will need to fully enclose the crawl space insulate around with R19 insulation and build windows /vents that you can open in summer time to avoid mold growth and close them in the winter to keep the warmth and avoid the freezing of your pipes . 25 years ago I did the same to my home in Vermont where as of right now the temperature outside is -10f and the temperature in the crawl space is constant 42f due the geothermal nature of the bare ground. and not only it is -10f for one day but the temperatures didn't go above freezing since January 3rd with many days of below zero f (-18C) and still going with no end in sight of the freeze onslaught . Insulate! insulate! insulate! and seal any gaps of cold air and let mother nature work for you for free!!!! Good luck

Snow! From an Australian perspective, that’s just amazing. How cozy and lovely to be there. The cabin looks really fantastic. Well done.

So relaxing and enjoyable. I'm sure you guys hated to pack up for home. It's great though, to have a place to sneak away to. I enjoy seeing you both enjoy the Cabin. Thanks for sharing.

Always nice to see whole family making place nice, esp help with doggie girl helping. ❤️

Great video Mike. You found lots of beauty surrounding ya, thanks for sharing it with us.

Look at you with more than 60K subscribers already!! Great videos! Thanks for the upload!

So much mud here as well this winter!

LOL MY GRANDSON JUST COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING WHEN YOUR WIFE DIDN'T WANT YOU TO TAKE HER PICTURE EATING HE SAID YOU ARE BOTH SO FUNNY I ASK HIM WHAT PART OF THE VIDEO HE LIKES HE SAID WATCHING YOU AND YOUR WIFE ALWAYS SO HAPPY AND HE JUST LOVE YOUR DOG GOD KEEP ON BLESSEING YOU BOTH WELL LIKE YOU SAID YOUR 2 GIRLS WE LOVE YOU 3 ❤💙❤💙❤🤗🤗🤗

Really nice you followed thru with your dreams of a cavin in the woods .

mike, you are getting there, slowly but surely. the boss did good too, so pats on the back. seal the holes with form it all helps. but I had too use a small space heater in Coudersport pa. back in the day. it ran on bottled gas. about fifteen a month. but that was before there was to much solar. they have them now that they use less then 60 watts that these days. you'd only need a forty watt bulb too heat that space. but there are even support channels that help with ideas, too heat that kind of space.

Watching the progress you and your family make in each video is a highlight of my weekend. It is great to sit down with a cup or three of coffee and watch 50 Acres and a Cabin. Or a Cabin and 50 Acres. I think it switched a while back. Anyway, love your videos!

New subscriber here. I am floored by the beautiful craftsmanship of your cabin. What a treasure. And love how the Mrs makes it so homey.

Saludos para los tres. Me alegro que disfrutéis de ese rinconcito tan hermoso que tenéis.

Nice!! Friday night, footed pajamas, popcorn, fire in fireplace, 50 Acres and a cabin!!

I'm originally from Dayton, Ohio but lived downtown. I moved to Florida in 1982. My family live in West Alexandria, in Preble County..The part of Central Florida that I live is very hilly like the Miami Valley. Beautiful!

There are some passive heating options for the cabin to keep the water area warm when you are away like the solar furnace or the compost pile heater but would want a solar panel to keep them going as the furnace needs a fan to move air and the compost pile needs a pump to move coolant and a fan to blow air in a radiator but will produce heat 24/7 for a few months. Solar furnace is a black box with a glass front aimed south to heat up thin walled aluminum pipes (down spouts) to suck cold air from the cabin in and blow warmed air back in. Compost pile heater is just a large pile of composable materials with a coil of poly pipe or pex inside it pulling some of the heat from the bacteria breaking down the compost to move it to where you want it. You get both free heat and rich soil from the process but have a good chance of messing up the pipe when you go to remove it so the pipe is classed as a consumable in the process. Due to the 24/7 heat produced would want a battery and the panel to keep the fan and pump running at all times.

Love the cabin...by far the best off grid cabin on You Tube. The attention to detail and how much you care about the end product is amazing. Would love to see a video of breakdown of cost from land to supplies. It's always been a dream of mine to build one myself.

I LOVE seeing your progress on the cabin. I want to suggest something for when you're there sleeping and want to stay warmer. You can get online and do a search for the ORIGINAL Vellux blankets and get 2 of them. Put one under you as if it were a sheet, and one directly over you. They somehow reflect your body heat and will keep you toasty in cold weather. I have an old farm house without central heat and in my bedroom in the winter it gets really cold so I use them every winter. And in the spring, when it's no longer needed I take out the one from under me and only use the one on top of me with a quilt, then in the summer all I use is the 1 Vellux blanket on top. They're very light weight, and you'll love them. You can get them on walmart.com and thru Macy's website as well. Just make sure you get the ORIGINAL Vellux blankets, because there are others that are not reflective of body heat like the original ones are. Good luck and thanks for taking us along on your cabin visit.

Excellent video! The double "you're #1" sign was hilarious! Sarah, is awesome!

Soft furnishings! Putting warm lined drapes at the windows & especially the exterior doors will make a huge difference to the temperature inside your cabin..my preference would be vintage wool blankets for a rustic feel. In France we also have exterior shutters even on our double glazed windows.

Hi guys just love your cabin on 50 acres just love all the things you do around the place even like little experiments keep up the good work Cliff from Queensland Australia

Again: Many build a cabin in such a good quality that it becomes a home. If one will live in such a cab it must be insolated like a home not for part time living. 7/365 Home needs other preparation then "some day living". By yourself a Bosch or other infraredpistoil for temp and humidity controll and then check the walls the windows and the floor. As I wrote one year ago- the KNAUFinsolation-with the brown paper in the kitchen was wet after cooking sometimes. That you never READ the manul. for using and building with mineral wool is clear. After instaling the mineral put the wood over it to profect it from humidity. If not the humidity goes IN the wool and then it stays ther for hundret years and starts to rotten all parts of wood that is in conection. Fungi and allergies and lungeproblems. If once wet it has no more insolation capebilitys. So one more point why the cab never will be hot. On wicht page in the Wall Disny Building magazin did you read about "to masure the heat need for a room or a cabin"? Where did you read about the right way of working with mineral wool? Or is that magazin only a lobbymagazin from the chemical building industry complex? For thouse how dont want to make the same mistakes like this styler: Wood and air- the best isolation for a log home or a cabin. In Germany and other country’s we have log homes or wood houses in cold areas that are older than 500 years. Also thousands of “only wood houses” like the one from Albert Einstein. One of my “Building engineer-mentors” a professional in restauration of old castles and old homes (stone or wood) told me, that a had inspection of real old homes that never had a problem with moisture, fungi, or rotten parts- when they were right build in the beginning. (Konrad Fischer Info that is his name) For example: The house from Albert Einstein had a wood structure with 10 centimeter X10 centimeter planking’s (or call them logs) and then for protection from the outside another pin wood that protected from rain. Always an overhang of the roof and mostly a rain gutter wood because this is also a good protection. A rain gutter is a “must have”! So, first the structure of the house, then 2X4 outside and then on that the pine- horizontal assembled so that the rain could flow faster and will be not come behind the pine. There, where the pin touches each other must be nail a wooden slat to cover this. Wood will expand and wood is a living thing that expand in rain time and in heat summer time it can shrink and if a house is in a real wet forest- it keeps much more humidity than a house in the desert where the air is dry. Hard wood very seldom shrinks,(its hard for the humidity to come in the fiber we use oak for windows or mahogany or beech) but others wood can that has a bigger wood fiber and bigger air parts. Only air circulation/barrier between inside and outside was the “isolation” Wood breathes and wood regulates the moisture in the house. 10 centimeter log is enough for a real winter cabin, but as thicker the wood or the log, as better is the isolation power. Keep the heat in winter inside, and the cold outside. Some build their homes with cellulose as isolation between the 2 different wood- arts- Cellulose also “breath” it can soak moisture and give it away later. Others use wood ships in different sizes. Again, the air between the pieces are the isolation and it also breathes! Danger of “fake-isolation” in wooden houses? Yes, health problems-lunge infections- allergies and fungi and rotten problems in the house. Mineral wool (glass or stone) or other synthetic Isolations are “fake isolations” Mineral wool is often wrong uses and from “nonprofessional misunderstand” many customers are manipulated by the PR and marketing of the building and isolations-industry. Many tread this stuff like “a wool from a sheep” but they don’t know that there is no function in the mineral itself. It’s the dry air INSIDE the wool that isolates. And if the mineral wool has contact with rain or moisture then it soaks this and keeps it like a stalactite cave. After some months the moisture in the wool starts to rotten and produce a danger cancer producing fungi. If it is wet or had it soak moisture, it had lost its isolation capability. And once in the wool it never goes out. NEVER. So that is a reason not to use it between real wood logs or beams because wood always has moisture inside and this moisture will go in the mineral wool and then the mineral wool starts to rotten and then the wood starts to rotten. Today there a biological. Paper barrier? Can bring destruction to the house. 1: We must consider the constant humidity from the forest, the rain. This is called “Umgebungsfeuchte” in German surrounding-humidity! This humidity sticks on everything from the outside and goes into the wood that is breathing. 2: We must consider the humidity that is produced when people live in the house- in summer and in winter. Everyone is breathing how much liter water in an hour? Cooking inside? Not a clever thing in a cab that is not used 7/24. Better building an outdoor kitchen bear secure or wolve secure. Keep the cooking moisture outside. A “airflow barrier” is contra because it don’t allow the natural air flow of an house to bring the moisture out of the wood/ clothes) bed/ furniture/ the logs the walls and out of the house. Often “opening the windows and doors for air circulation” will also help to dry the house winter and summer. Remember: heat binds water in the air and wind flow must bring that package out. A barrier is wrong. A wood house must not be sealed. The sealing of a wood house is dry wood and air between the inside and outside. Styrofoam is also a bad isolation in the “wooden house”. It shrinks through heat and it becomes porous after some times and then it loses contact with the “walls” and then cold bridges can lead to fungi. The best was and is to build traditional. Only wood and air as an isolation! So “don’t give moisture a chance!” Take a look at some of the teaching videos from NORTHEM traditional building. I belive the best way would be- an wood lath outside but horizontal- then the inside with another wood blank and fill the space with fine your air dried wood dust from the saw! Or by it from someone else. 1: The wood ships or dust can breathe. In times of much humidity from inside is soaks it and later when the climax inside and outside is changed it dry’s automatically. A mineral wool with a barrier can’t do it. Whenever a mineral wool “is open and in touch with wood” the moisture goes in and never dry’s. Such wood ships as isolation can be used for floor roof and walls. And they don’t need or like barriers. Respect the laws of “nature” and the physic of naturel building material and you will have much fun with a house! Frank facility manager with carpenter backround from Hamburg

Read your "shingles" comment on the Canadian Castaway channel, and chuckled! Sara's dig today, has added to the chuckle. Them shingles could be the death of you, but you'll sure appreciate them once the job is done! Hang in there, really enjoy your journey, the build, and all the related content you produce.

Great video Mike and Sarah. Really enjoy your channel.

Gawd I love those windows!!! I am so jealous of them.

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing! Awesome job!

Thanks for sharing a very informative and fun video 📹!! 😊👍💕💕💕

My dad put a heavy plastic cover on cold surface of crawl space. Big difference.

Just discovered you. I have just come off your video where you were installing a new woodstove. I think its clear that I'm here to stay. Thanks for the great, quality content.

Mike you are doing a great job, no matter what Sarah says! keep up the good work. Cheers from Argentina. Fede

I hope you finish the shingles soon, so we all can celebrate it with you and Sarah😊. Coming along nicely.

Nothing more than pretty than a nice , honest vid. like this. Keep it coming guys ! More power ! Ciao frm Turin !

So love your Cabin. Very rustic and homey, love the special touches that make it so quaint. Enjoy!

Insullating crawl space and heating the crawl space with the ambient from the cabin is the smart way to go

Very interesting project to protect the plumbing. Great job.

Hello from way up north ! Nice little cabin and yes a little prep so your water don't freeze, are you planning to live full time and do a little homesteading ? that cute pup looks like my girl Gingers sis lol :) I'm still trying to slowly get my cabin done, always so many other chores, wood cutting , now starting to think about my summer road trips camping already so a little at a time as money comes in :) fishing first lol,

Cabin looks great. There were some oops along the build but you were honest, Great work! Sarah is very pretty!

G'day from downunder again. Hey Mike in regards to the bed, could you make a frame and cantilever it over the edge. Obviously you'd make it to support a queen mattress? Good to see Sarah and Beatrice in the video again too. Keep up the good work champion

BEAUTIFUL job on those floor tiles! nice work. Camarillo Grammy

Sarah with the two finger flip off,truly made me laugh out loud and am now a subscriber. loved that, my kind of people.

So nice to see you enjoying our national 🇬🇧 drink and good old Yorkshire tea too!

Tip on tea-making: heat the mugs up by pouring boiling water in them and let them stand for a minute first! Then empty them and make your tea. The same thing goes for teapots- heat them first.

Lol Sarah is savage about those shingles... great video man!

I'm so excited!

Don't feel bad about ads. I expect them. Not going anywhere. Your work is so beautiful!

Nejde o nejrozumější způsob tepelné izolace vody pod domem. Tím, že tam vháníš teplý vzduch z místnosti, tak tam také vháníš vlhký vzduch z místnosti. Ten po ochlazení, které nutně přijde, předá vlhkost ve formě kondenzátu, který bude zamokřovat podlahu tvé chaty zespodu. A to není dobře kvůli plísním, houbám. Vlhký vzduch z místnosti nesmí odcházet do konstrukce, a to ani jako ohřev vodní instalace.

I told you about the floor insolation, excuse my spelling. Where I live in Sweden it´s minus 20 today!

Another fine video....and your cabin is some darn fine work!

Great work, you gotta do what you have to do to stop the freezing. BTW Sarah is very patient with the time you have to spend filming.

love dateline/48hrs mystery, and when you put those gloves on all's i could think about was bernie!..lol

Why don't you wrap the pipes with pipe insulation? Then you don't have to worry about them freezing. You can't spray foam the pipes or hoses. Just a thought !

Love your channel! Beautiful cabin and land!

The wife do the multi flame candle? Rustic and Elegant at the same time. Getting there, closer to being done, but then you want to add more. Boss of the Swamp is go to listen to, and the bubble wrap works. A friend used it on his family hunt cabin, and he doesn't have to run the fire at full burn for heat.

Great story/video. Keep up the work.

Always glad to see you guys !

Wow you two are killing it!

Ontario Lakeside sent me your way. Great channel! I look forward to going through your back catalog.

Those pesky shingles man... Sarah know thats not your most favorite thing to do it seems. Itll get done when the weather gets a lil warmer I'm sure. Small fan to circulate warm air back down from the loft perhaps? Such a beautiful place, thanks for bringing us along.

I spy a Duluth Shirt-jack. I have them in ~olive drab and that color, they're made of win. RE. thermostat for the water infra there is a company called ac infinity that makes ventilation things for servers, grow boxes, home theater systems , homelabs, network closets, in-line booster fans, register booster fans, probably some other types of fans. They also make clean looking thermostats that can sample up to 6 zones. If you could read our links i'd link you but if you search "acinfinity" it should be the 1st hit. Regarding the loft temperature vs kitchen/living room i'm not sure what to do about that in a place that doesn't have mains power except to build it again differently with a large wood stove in the basement or ground level and everything else above it with large registers in the floor to convect the stove's heat throughout the building. In places with mains power we use ceilings fans running clockwise at minimum RPM when people or pets are in a room. flip the switch back to counterclockwise when it gets hot again.

The little touches add so much! Yes, just keeping it above freezing should do it. Spray foaming the rest of the floor sounds smart.

Looking good- glad you both are getting some cabin time to enjoy it! 👍

One of the sweetest episodes.

HI Mike and Sarah, We felt like we came to visit and helped and hung out by way the video came across. Had great time watching. Command center sounds like a great way to keep track of cabin systems. Will it be displayed or in some kind of cabinet?. Have a great week ahead. 👌 😎👍

Two awesome people, a beautiful dog, a drop dead gorgeous cabin and great content. What kind of jealous, soulless nood-nyk would give this a thumbs down?? Love you guys!

Another fun video to watch, especially the bed-making belly flop. How else would you do it indeed. Just enough homey touches without diminishing the cabin feel. Remember, you’re building your cabin for your own enjoyment, not everyone else’s desire to be a building inspector.

Nothing smarter than a teaser! Plus this all helps the #'s and algorithms! Great picture also!

Wow, it's been so long since I checked in! Place looks great! Outstanding work 👍

Enjoying the fruits of your labor. Nice relaxing by a woo burning stove. So glad to see the whole family at the cabin. Get those cabinet doors on!!!!!

Your cabin inspired me. I will make the same one here in Brazil. Thanks for shared with us. :)

Heating, insolation and health: How to build the right way. Greets and love from Hamburg in Germany. I am a facility manager for 30 years with carpenter back round. Also building expert and building supervision always for the owners. I love the topic of cabin building even if I have not an own cab because we in Germany have not the same freedom of building like in the US or CA. We have much more people in our country then the US have. Building cultures in Germany is another then in the US or CA. But my grandfather in another state had built one 120 years ago for 10 persons- he had 6 children. Traditional hunting house. With stone foundation and big logs. I have a lot US friends visiting Germany for many years and they wonder about the building quality of homes or houses or even hunting cabins. Germany love to build for 100 or more years. We see the real estate as an investment that’s way we pay more $$$ for a better quality but not so big like Americans love to build. Americans build fast light much with slats chemical fake insulation like mineral wool or other stuff like Styrofoam. No one things about the physical facts that foam shrinks year by year and it breaks and produces air pollution. Many Germans build a brick wall that can be 50 centimeter broad. The goal is the keep the cold out in winter and the heat out in summer. Germany produced 2 WWs and they learned to build traditional with a solid insulation because wood for heating is a rare thing. Building cost for one square meter: 2300 Euros ca. Normal quality. So 100 SQ- 230.000 Euros plus ground price and tax. The best way to understand the building physic (cabins and traditional homes) is to learn from the masters of the past. There are wood houses older then 500 years- in Germany. In US Santa Fee- the oldest home was build in 1625-it’s still standing. Surely in the building style of the natives. I love it. Bricks clay stones straw wood- all natural materials “proofed in hundreds of years” 4 Elements are the enemy of an house- winter cold, heat in summer, storm all the times rain and water from the ground. The natives learned to build with clay with a natural circulation ventilation in summer. Its hot outside but cool inside. And a traditional build log cabin can be a home for hundreds of years it the fundament was build in the right way. In times like these- many YTubers produce content with there dream cabin that ended as a nightmare because they don’t know how to build right nor they ask for advice nor did they watch videos from experts like NORTHMEN. He has the best canal about traditional building. How do know the power of cold in winter that goes through a bad floor- only 5 centimeter wood as an insulation? Traditional build can be easy and NORTHMEN showed a video that will open the eyes of everyone how loves to build one Cab or loves to understand the old school building technics. How needs mineral wool that cost a lot if wood dust and wood ships does a better job in the floor and they cost nothing? “Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process - 16mm Film Scan - English Version” is the title of the video and also “Birth of a wooden house” 50 centimeter floor insulation out of wood logs- wood dust? One important consideration: If you plan a cabin- how many people have to stay there for how long. If we consider Dick Proenneke (German rooted carpenter) his cabin- it was planed to good- with a stone fundament with only 10 centimeter logs- with self-made doble windows- With bear prove door with 2 kind of heating systems one real stone open fireplace and an oven for extra heating and backing and cooking. How much place do you need if? To many build a cabin to big and as bigger a cab as more firer wood is needed day and night. Here is the trick- thing about the simple old school method or the way the poor people had to deal with this question: Heat rises to the top. No one build a traditional cab with a high ceiling of a room. Max 230 centimeter high. The heat rises to the top and then goes back to the floor and circulation creates turbulence so that the room is warm there where it needs to be warm- on the floor but if the floor is not perfect insulated the feed will be cold the legs and there is not chance to get them warm. Many build a wrong floor system. Cold floor: Wrong insulation. Warm floor right insulation. Only dreamers build a cathedrals ceiling with an high of 20 feed or more. The heat rises to the top and the roof will be hot. Also the loft is like a sauna. Also in the summer. Cold air goes down hot goes up. Again how much space do you need for a bed, a kitchen, a table? 12 feed x 16 feed? Dick Proenneke did it right and his cab was so good buildet that it still standing. As smaller the room as warmer it can be as letter wood is be needed day and night. As bigger the room as colder it will be or you must build 2 oven. Every oven has his limits in the capacity of heating space. If a room is to big then the oven cant make the room warm. Never. Build a 2 windows one for the outside and on for the inside. The air between is the insulation. Air is the best insulation. Air in wood fiber is the insulation and fake insulation like mineral wool will never become dry if once got wet but wood will be dry very fast. Shutters are also an insulation and protection from storm bears and cold. Mudroom a “must have” its like a floodgate that keeps the cold out and the warm air in when you enter the cabin. You like it warm and cozy in a cabin? Then plan a small one. What a pleasure to sleep in a good insulated cabin where the oven has enough power to produce heat for the night without you have to refill it! Overhang of the roof: If build with wood it must be protected from rain and wet wind. Overhang roof is a must have. Health: Wear warm clothes like merino wool or wool things. Jeans and other cotton clothe are cold products that make you colder/ also linen. Wool has insulation power. If you don’t want to develop a form of rheumatism (I got it in the army in the cold war times. To long in cold temps outside) then plan a good insulation. If the cabin is not good insulated the oven must burn full power and that is also not good for the skin the lunges the eyes. Make it dry. Last word: If you plan a fancy cabin where style and design is more important then basic building facts then don’t wonder yourself if you never feel warm in such a cabin or your friends or family. Rustic look will be a side product if you build traditional with needed space. If you build more space then you could heat then you get cold. As smaller a cab as more cozy it will be. And for those how are cold right now: Rebuild the cab.- build a ceiling in the cabin build a mudroom insulate the floor from the outside with 10 centimeter wood. Use screws not nails. 10 cm is the perfect natural insulation for a warm floor. Never use laminate for a floor in a cabin. It has no insulation power. Only wood fiber has insulation power so a warm floor is wood on wood with air between. Never laminate. It’s a “cold product” and a death one a fake wood copied look. And it cant keep heat inside because it’s a fake wood thing only real wood opens up for heat and gather it while you heat the room. Frank

Sarah With your touch everything looks so pretty

I have a cabin with high ceilings like yours. I found a 3 blade metal ceiling fan that doesn't use many watts. It's a 12v fan. Its white and on Amazon. It's also reversible and will help bring some heat back down to the living area. You may be interested. Also, I enjoy your videos.

If your having problems keeping the heat down on the ground floor you might wont to put in a reversible ceiling fan,I know they are ungodly looking but it would help

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS video

puppers thought Cody + Beatrices (tricks?) & a fun coLAB those pups would have some interest for them as yt pet celebs. Rabbit foot ferns might handle the cold temps over time or another small hardy fern vs the air plant. Plus some around the cabin later on would be really cool especially on the shaded sides or by the pond.

This is like when I was a kid. Saturday morning cartoons but now I watch your videos. Always look forward to them.

You're doing great...can't work all the time, you need to relax and enjoy....stay safe, be careful, take it easy and keep warm and dry

Waving from just across Lake Erie in southern Ontario!

I enjoyed this. Can you add a section of pipe to raise the intake point higher into the cabin where the warmer air tends to stratify at? The air on the floor is a bit colder I bet. Keep up the great work!