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How to Make & Install Floating Shelves in a Tiny House Rustic Kitchen, DIY Log Cabin, Macaroni

How to Make & Install Floating Shelves in a Tiny House Rustic Kitchen, DIY Log Cabin, Macaroni

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1
I carve wood dowels and cut pine planks from free wood to make and install floating shelves in the tiny house kitchen at the log cabin, another off grid, rustic DIY project. Using hand tools, I whittle pegs from ash firewood logs and hammer them into holes I drilled in the log walls and pine planks using a brace and bit. The holes are 5/8 and 4 inches deep on both ends. The pine planks are 2 thick, which I used an Alaskan chainsaw mill to cut from red pine logs that I cut down at my friend's property last spring. At the beginning of the video, my dog, Cali, and I hike across the beaver meadow and down the frozen stream to gather balsam fir logs that Joe and I cut last March. I bring a couple of bundles back to the cabin to use for trimming the windows and the benches in the cabin. The remaining logs will be used to make chairs for the fireside as well as for building materials for the workshop, sugar shack, root cellar or woodshed. My wife films us in the meadow using a Mavic Pro drone and I film the ground level scenes with my 6D, Mark II. Using hand tools, including a rip saw, a crosscut saw, hammer, brace and bits, axes, drawknife, planes and bushcraft knife, I fashion bulky trim for around the east window. I have three meals in this video. The first is a beef soup that I made in the last video, which I eat for lunch while working on the rustic kitchen shelves. The second meal is macaroni and cheese, made with shredded aged cheddar and parmesan cheese with butter, flour and cream. On the side, I have fresh sourdough garlic bread, toasted on the woodstove. For breakfast the following morning, I make frittata with smoked salmon and sourdough toast. The egg dish includes, sweet and hot peppers, cheese, smoked sockeye salmon and tomato
Date: 2020-11-30

Comments and reviews: 9


One of the reasons your cabin is so appealing to so many is the rustic, natural look. I think we were meant to be stewards of the land. Not to conquer the land with our asphalt, cement, and steel cities. As stewards, we should do no harm to Mother nature but rather blend in by using the natural materials she has provided all around us. You have done that by harvesting the lumber for your home off of your own land. I think some forget that you built this home alone as thousands of pioneers did before you. I think at least 75% of the human population would perish without their 24-hour cities. There are humans who go their entire lives without ever seeing or being in nature. Who has never smelled sweetgrass or the wonderful smell of green pine needles other than their pine tree air fresheners! The natural log surrounds the windows would stick out as being odd if you used conventional man-made building materials. By the way, are you a self-taught carpenter, or do you have prior experience?
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Questions:
1. What's the fan on the top of the wood burner for? Blowing warm air from the surface into the rest of the cabin space?
2. How well do the windows hold up to the cold? That's a cool idea with the animal skins as a dual purpose curtain and insulator - but I see the windows looked pretty frosty, so I wasn't sure how well they keep out the cold?
3. The ice blocks from a previous episode: What do you use them for later? I see you use sawdust to prevent them from melting as fast, so I was curious what you use them for when you eventually use them.
4. What was the purpose of the copper backsplash in the kitchen? It looks nice, I just wasn't sure if there was a purpose beyond aesthetics.
5. How hard is it to keep the sink from turning green since it's copper?
I've really been enjoying your videos! Been binge watching them as much as I can, lol.

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Why did you choose to use such dark vertical members? they look quite different from the sill and the top cross piece which are both very light colored. I would have expected you to shave off the dark outside surface of the wood on those verticals to match the light sill and cross piece. Any thoughts?
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Hi Shawn, I really get a sense of satisfaction watching you build different things and it has inspired me to do a bit of fixing and changing things in my apartment. Small but satisfying too! Thank you, keep it up you are doing great so keep going and be happy.
Liz

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Out of all the amazing things I've watched you do over the last week than I've been binge watching the one thing I could never see myself doing is hand sawing EVERYTHING. You work harder sawing a few boards than most people do in a week. I'm addicted!
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I recall having seen one of your videos in which you and some friends built some sort of a dome and covered the walls with tree bark. If you don't mind me asking, what was it for and what was the outcome of that structure?
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As a German native speaker (amongst Dutch and English) and translator, I want to compliment you on the German translation of some of your videos like this one. Do you have a professional doing this for you?
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Hi! I thought I would release this Fridays video early this week since its March/spring break here and a lot of people are busy on the weekend. Thanks for watching!
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So relaxing, I like to playing video while i am reading or working, feeling like my dad was working outsite as my childhood
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