Living off the Grid: Building an off the Grid Cabin for Winter
View the full blog post here: purelivingforlife.com/building-a-cabin-for-winter/ Enjoy our videos? Want to see more? Learn how to support our channel here: purelivingforlife.com/support/ Just three months ago we purchased 5 acres of land in the Pacific Northwest where we will be working to develop our off grid homestead 100% from scratch. While we will be working to build our timber frame barn and eventually timber frame house, winter has arrived and we have neither! We are boondocking in our RV and needed a way to winterize + stay warm. We decided to build this little cabin as an add-on to our RV. Right now, our RV is under a ShelterLogic Garage-in-a-Box which has no insulation whatsoever. We thought that if we could build a small 10x12 cabin onto the end of the carport that we could heat the entire enclosure with a wood stove. We've been working to insulation the carport fully, so between all of our efforts we have managed to heat the inside to 68 degrees! The best part of all is that we built this off grid cabin ourselves with reclaimed materials. Instead of spending $3,000+ to build this cabin, we did it for about $300. Most of these materials came from a demolition we were able to help out with which you can see in our other videos. We also were able to salvage many second-hand building materials with a barter flyer we put up around town. We are loving our little cabin! Have we ever built a cabin before? NOPE! Do we feel more confident about our building skills? Yes! Did we learn a lot that we can implement when building our barn and house? YES! OTHER POSTS YOU MAY ENJOY How We Researched, Found & Purchased the Best Land for Our Homestead: purelivingforlife.com/finding-land-for-homestead/ Our Top 9 Methods for Finding Reclaimed Materials ($10k-$15k Savings in Two Months): purelivingforlife.com/finding-reclaimed-building-materials/ How We Found $5,000 to $7,000 in Reclaimed Construction Materials: purelivingforlife.com/how-we-found-reclaimed-construction-materials/ Our Portable RV Garage: purelivingforlife.com/our-portable-rv-garage/ Finding Trees on Our Property to Cut Down for Timber Framing & Lumber: purelivingforlife.com/finding-trees-for-timber-framing/ ENJOY THIS VIDEO? SUPPORT US WITHOUT PAYING A DIME! It takes us 40+ hours a week to document our journey on both our blog and our YouTube channel. If you enjoy watching our videos and want to help us to produce more of them, learn how you can help us without spending a dime! purelivingforlife.com/support/ GET SOCIAL Follow us as we build our off grid homestead 100% from scratch! We post a lot of stuff to both our blog and our other social media channels that don't make it to YouTube, so be sure to follow us there for the full scoop of what we're working on! Blog: purelivingforlife.com Instagram: instagram.com/purelivingforlife Facebook: www.facebook.com/purelivingforlife Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/purlivforlif Twitter: twitter.com/pureliving4life EQUIPMENT USED TO PRODUCE OUR VIDEOS Camera #1: amzn.to/2aykTf8 Camera #2: amzn.to/2aCddvP Tripod: amzn.to/2aShOL4 Macbook Pro: amzn.to/2aCdGhy Editing software: bit.ly/1oTH5av Other words you may use to find this video: building off grid cabin off the grid cabin building off the grid off the grid cabins off grid living living off the grid building an off the grid cabin off the grid living build off grid cabin best places to live off the grid building off the grid
