Looking at the rather unattractive western facade of our little cabin, with the 8x12 shed in front. The hillock from the previous image is in the middle ground. again in the fall of 2003.

Already in the spring 0f 2004 did we indeed break down and admit that 250 square feet with a loft felt a little too crammed. For two maybe, but not with a kid. So the eastern expansion was penned down on the back of an envelope on the way to the lumberyard, and soon after built.

And here we are in August 2004, all cleaned up and tidy the morning we left for our summer job in the California mountains

I started the long and ever evolving process of putting together my wood shop in the fall of 2004. Here the framing is underway.

The shop and cabin as they stood for a few years, here in late winter 2006. The little shed from the second photo above is now moved all the way back, another advantage of setting our structures on the highly mobile pier post foundations
A couple of old hand-me-down solar panels from a friend has also been added to the power plant

A ferocious thunderstorm on July 4th 2006 exposed some shortcomings with the eave-less design of the early cabin (a function of not so much esthetics or practicality, but more inexperience) that we saw a need to expand the roof line a bit. We added 5 feet of eave to the south side and re-did a few details, which hopefully have weatherproofed things.

Another look a the fresh new eave design. Also seen here is the addition of an insulated weatherproof storm door to the all glass porch door. It works well to keep in precious heat, but conversely also help the house to stay cool in the scorching heat of summer.

A pole barn was added in the early summer of 2007, greatly improving winter toils, like dealing with firewood and garbage. This building is also incorporating the much loved pier post foundation principle

Another view of the pole barn

The wood shop after its final metamorphosis in november 2007. It is now roughly 24x32 and damn near perfect as a place to build my little boats . It is also, in true redneck style, substantially bigger than the cabin. This fact has leaked out to the rest of the family, and now Bjorn's birthday parties are staged in there, together with any large gathering of friends.