Story of an average couple, with below average income that built a modern home using a large % of sustainable & recycled materials - by themselves with no building loan.  The Sing Log Cedar house called "Spiderhollow".

In late '96 Dulane (Dee), and I were hunting for a house to buy.  At the time, housing was very expensive, and our incomes were very limited.  But, when isn't that the story. 

We finally found this wee property hidden amongst big trees and very Natural landscaping (more like a tanglewoods), and demarked with 2 intersecting utility corridors. 
READ the quick Story of our search and purchase of the property and how we struggled to take "Building a House" from a pipe-dream into a reality.  Or, forge ahead on the links above to see what we went through to build it ourselves.

We took This ole Trailer Here it is in all it's glory. 1969 mobile home with additions on three sides.	And Made it into This The New SpiderHollow Custom Log House
Drive leading into the new property.  Nice long serpentine driveway.  I love it, visitors hate it.  Lined by bushes it creates natural screening.	There are also many natural bushes and trees.  Lots of Rhododendron bushes, large & small trees and "natural landscaping" (Read Tanglewoods)Lots of Huckleberry bushes, Blackberry bushes and Salmon berry bushes, and many others.
Below is a piece of spirit after the years of efforts to complete the SpiderHollow project. The night before Josh was to come over and start demolishing Dee, Sonya, and I danced and sang high spirited praises as we smudged the new house, and proceeded to the trailer with drums banging & sage smudging.  Sonja and Dee were praising, I was banging rhythms on the drum, and we all said goodbye to the old home, a trailer, a life now past and moved our spirits into the new home built by our hands, our blood, sweat, and tears.  It was all good - very spiritual.  Thank you Sonja and Dulane.

SpiderHollow Sing Log Building project:  Lot purchase '97.  Permitted 8/20/03 Ground breaking 8/30/03 Move in 9/20/05