In today’s real estate market, many prospective homeowners are faced with the tough financing situations that are now all too common. The government does not seem to have any viable solutions and seems to just get us further into the crevasse of recession but allowing big banks to run even further off course. If you find yourself seeking a way out of a life of bank servitude, try building your own green home by using these strategies.

Build a cord wood home

Saving a lot of money by building your own cord wood home is easier than you may think. First, cord wood construction is simply using lengths of firewood (cord wood) embedded into mortar structure. This wood is built into the wall in a perpendicular fashion and creates a wall that is about a foot or so thick, whatever length of wood you cut. (more…)

In today’s real estate market, many prospective homeowners are faced with the tough financing situations that are now all too common. The government does not seem to have any viable solutions and seems to just get us further into the crevasse of recession but allowing big banks to run even further off course. If you find yourself seeking a way out of a life of bank servitude, try building your own green home by using these strategies.

Build a cord wood home

Saving a lot of money by building your own cord wood home is easier than you may think. First, cord wood construction is simply using lengths of firewood (cord wood) embedded into mortar structure. This wood is built into the wall in a perpendicular fashion and creates a wall that is about a foot or so thick, whatever length of wood you cut. (more…)