From Raw Land to Log Cabin Walls // Couple Builds Own House - Ep. 38

How did we get from a young couple that bought a piece of raw land to building our own cabin in the woods? Follow along today, and you’ll get a peek into our story.

Our whole build started about 2 years ago, and it wasn’t all that easy because we were living 3 hours away from our land. For every new step in the project, we’d pack up our family of 4 (plus 2 dogs) and head the to land so we could BUILD!

In June of 2021, we finally made the big move to live at our land permanently, and 1 week later our cabin kit home arrived. Follow along in this episode so you can see a brief explanation of how we went from raw land to building a house.

After our intro, you get to follow along as we start our LOG WALLS!!! Woohoo!! This part of the project was so fun to do. Finally, we could see what our cabin is going to look like.

And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on YouTube. We’re Sara and Ryan. We are your average suburban family, but 9 years ago, we purchased a raw piece of land in the Hood Canal in Washington. We’ve been developing this piece of property slowly, and this year we knew it was time to go all in. So we purchased a log cabin kit home and decided that 2020 would be the year we built a house on our property. We plan to build this cabin (as much as we can) on our own.

Unfortunately, COVID-19 put a delay on our cabin kit being produced and delivered in the time frame we had originally planned. While we could have just waited it out and pushed back starting on the build of our home, we decided to shift gears and change our course for the time being. We purchased a 30 foot yurt, and will be setting it up as additional living space when we begin to build our cabin.

In the summer of 2021, we FINALLY moved to the Hood Canal so we could start the build of our future home. While we are building our home, we are living in a camper trailer and the yurt that we built in the summer of 2020. We hope to have our cabin kit home built by the summer of 2022. Just my husband and I are building the house. We get help here and there from friends along the way and we do plan to get help on the roof but other than that we are doing it all on our own.

Follow along with us as we build our dream in the Hood Canal.


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