One of our goals for this year is to start breaking ground on our dream home, aka the forever cabin. That means we’ve finally decided on a plan for it! We had a lot of things we needed to consider, from foundation to plumbing to electrical wiring, just like building in town. Except our goal was to minimize costs, materials we needed to haul out, and minimize future water and electricity use. We’ll be building most of this ourselves, without being able to get contractors to our property. Though we do have a lot of friends who are excited to help it come together  😀

This is our hand drawn design for what we finally decided on:

Please excuse the spilled coffee and eraser marks. It took us a long time to agree on how everything would go!

Because this is the dream home, it won’t look like the average cabin in the woods.

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Building A Dream Home Off Road In Alaska”