DeHart Cabin

The DeHart cabin was an early 1800s dog trot cabin, originally built in the hills and hollers of Moorhead, Kentucky. We saved the cabin from demolition and moved it back to Louisville, Kentucky, where we rebuilt it for a customer as a vacation home and personal retreat.

For this cabin, we built two full stone chimneys and a full stone foundation around the whole structure, which offered plenty of challenges since we built on a hill. The backside of the cabin foundation was about 5 feet tall. We also added a cedar timber-framed back porch using all locally sourced timbers. It was one of our favorite projects we've done.

Grace Cabin

The Grace cabin was built in Mount Laguna, California, right outside San Diego. All the timbers came from the mountain and were being cut down for conservation and fire protection purposes. They were all run through a mill by the owner on site, and we came in to cut and notch all the cabin logs, set it on the foundation, and bring it up to top plate. We completed that in seven days.

Berry Center

The Bookstore at The Berry Center sits in New Castle's oldest original log cabin, a structure dating to around 1790 that predates Kentucky statehood. It is home to Wendell Berry's nonprofit bookstore and the Agrarian Culture Center, where his life's work on farming, land stewardship, and rural community continues to be carried forward. When Old Wood Building was brought in, the cabin had reached a critical point. Without intervention, it likely would have been too far gone to save. Over the course of ten to twelve months, our crew performed a full structural restoration, replacing more than twenty deteriorated logs, re-chinking the entire structure, and rebuilding all four stone foundation corners from the ground up. We also applied a Boratec treatment throughout to protect the wood from insect damage for generations to come. The result is a cabin that will stand for another two hundred years. Some buildings are just worth saving, and this is one of them.