Holding it All Together: A DIY Project to Build a Wooden Cabin

The process of building a wooden cabin is a labor of love, requiring patience, precision, and creativity. Our project, which we're excited to share with you, began with a simple yet crucial step: holding everything together. We started by gluing the logs in place, using a combination of glue and tape to ensure that they would stay secure. This initial step was essential, as it prevented our cabin from collapsing or falling apart during the sawing process.

To create a stable foundation for our project, we used double-sided tape to attach a parchment paper guide to the side of the house. This allowed us to accurately cut out the triangle sections and ensure that they fit snugly together. We also set aside time to dry the glue, which would later be used to bond the logs together.

As we began sawing through the logs, we carefully guided each piece into place using a clamp to hold it securely in position. The sawing process was crucial, as it allowed us to create the intricate details and textures that would ultimately bring our cabin to life. We also discussed the roof's design, deciding to use dowels instead of craft sticks, which would provide a more sturdy structure.

With the walls complete, we turned our attention to the roof, cutting out triangle sections using a template created from parchment paper. We glued these pieces together, securing them with double-sided tape and clamps, ensuring that they were flush with the bottom of the cabin. Next, we used craft glue to attach felt strips to the top of the cabin, adding texture and character to our design.

As we worked on each detail, we considered the overall aesthetic we wanted to achieve. We debated the merits of a snowy roof versus an evergreen theme, ultimately deciding that the latter would provide year-round appeal. To add seasonal flair, we could use embellishments like hearts for Valentine's Day or Easter eggs in April. The parchment paper windows were glued into place, providing a neat and tidy finish.

With our cabin taking shape, we turned to the roof's next step: applying paint. We decided to leave the cabin's natural beauty intact, opting instead to add a coat of acrylic paint to the top of the roof. This not only added visual interest but also helped to protect the structure from the elements. Next, we cut out a chimney using a square dowel, which would be painted and attached to the cabin once complete.

As we continued working on our project, we encountered a few trial and error moments. However, these setbacks were minor, and our design began to take shape. We applied a coat of paint to the roof, ensuring that it was smooth and even. With the roof dry, we glued the triangle sections together, creating a sturdy peak that would support the cabin's roof.

Finally, with our cabin complete, we added a finishing touch: an LED light bulb. This not only provided illumination but also served as a safety feature, allowing us to easily replace the bulb without having to disassemble the entire structure. To ensure a safe and cozy living space, we recommend using LED bulbs in any DIY project.

As we stepped back to admire our handiwork, we couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. Building this wooden cabin had been a labor of love, requiring patience, creativity, and attention to detail. We're excited to share our finished project with you and can't wait to see how you'll be using your own DIY creations to stay cozy this winter.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey welcome back to handmade at home i'm dennis i'm andrew we're the crafty lumberjacks i don't know about you but we plan on staying in and hibernating all winter long oh yeah and of course we would love to be in a cozy log cabin but we live in a new york queens apartment yes so inspired by mary anne's miniature videos we thought it'd be fun to make a miniature log cabin of our dreams yes and turn it into a nightlight to keep us cozy all the time yes here we go so we're gonna be creating four walls and we decided to keep it pretty simple just because it is a big task now we did a little homework and we made a template now this is all to size we're gonna use this as a guide as we work yes for our logs we downsized a little bit we're going to be using wooden dowels to create our walls but before we get started we need to cut these to size and for that we're going to use a miniature saw timber we've been cutting up a storm here you can see i'm using the template as a guide we want alternating pieces so that they uh lock together so we have a long piece and then a short piece i'm using the dotted line as a guide for my longer pieces and then the solid line as a guide for my smaller pieces we have our first sides done here for the top triangle we didn't want to cut all those pieces we're actually gonna cut it after we glue it so i'm using um some leftover scrap pieces some dowels here and just gonna glue it in order um you know just so that it's larger than the triangle and then we're gonna cut it down to size using the saw once it's all dry and then actually for a little bit of extra stability and security i'm actually going to use a mini uh popsicle stick here just to hold it all together because we really don't want it to pop off or kind of fall apart when we try to saw it and then this way we can glue this right to the side of the house double duty all right i'm gonna set this aside and i'll get another piece of parchment paper and start on the other sides looking pretty good and then if you want if you're feeling a little worried about the glue um you know we're going to be painting this so you can just add little glue there in the crevices of the logs you know just for a little more comfort in knowing that all your hard work won't fall apart our triangle sections are dry i'm just going to cut out the triangle here to use as a guide while i'm sawing i'm going to use some double-sided tape and i'm actually going to tape it right to the piece of wood there i want it flush to the bottom i'm actually going to use a clamp to clamp this down and then i'm going to start some everything's looking really good we're gonna peel these off the parchment paper there you can see it's a little uh rough and it's still drying uh but now i'm just going to glue my little triangle shape there to the top and then we're going to set these to dry and work on our roofs we went back and forth a few times about this we were originally going to make the roof out of craft sticks you see we have some uh trial and error pieces here but we love how much the dowels look that we decided to keep the roof with the dowels um we're essentially gonna make the roof the same way we made the walls just glue them all together yeah and now we're gonna make our base as well we're going to keep that really simple just use some balsa wood the house is just going to sit on here but before we do that we're going to drill a hole right in the middle for the night light to just poke through yes we're almost there oh my gosh i cannot wait now that we have our base cut i'm just going to cut a piece of felt to size and we're going to glue that right on top we want to add the felt for a little more uh texture character but of course you can leave this all natural or you can paint it um we kind of went back and forth with a lot of these um these little details you know we were thinking maybe snow but then i don't know we wanted to be more like uh evergreen rather than like a winter yes um you know this way we can use it all year round if we wanted to and actually we can um add embellishments like per season so like maybe for valentine's day we could do a little heart on the door or like for easter put a little bunny in the yard yeah some flowers for may i love where this is go all right now for the hole i'm just going to keep it really easy since you're not going to see it i'm just going to eyeball it perfect all right now i'm just going to use craft glue for this and glue it right on we have our parchment paper windows glued on now we're just gonna start putting it all together you of course could uh use some super glue or the craft glue to put it together uh but you know these actually work right in place uh so you can carefully slide them in there yeah they seem like they're really snug which is nice and if you have any gaps or anything you can fill it in with a little bit of glue or of course you can cut more dowels to size and kind of just fill it in there but this actually looks pretty good really good oh my gosh so cute our roof is dry it's looking good now time for the next step we're going to add a coat of paint to the roof we decided we're going to leave the cabin all natural just the way it is but we are gonna add some acrylic paint to the top of the roof we also cut out a chimney using a square dowel that we're gonna add on uh once we're finished yeah we're gonna paint that too and then when that's all dry we're going to glue the roof together to itself in a peak just so we can hopefully lift it on and off if we need to change the light bulb or anything like that we're just going to be using super glue for that and i think then we're pretty much done oh my gosh and just for safety we recommend using an led bulb oh my gosh it looks utterly charming it was a lot of work but totally worth it yeah we can't wait to move in yeah let us know how you're going to stay cozy this winter in a comment below don't forget to like and subscribe and we'll see you soon bye youhey welcome back to handmade at home i'm dennis i'm andrew we're the crafty lumberjacks i don't know about you but we plan on staying in and hibernating all winter long oh yeah and of course we would love to be in a cozy log cabin but we live in a new york queens apartment yes so inspired by mary anne's miniature videos we thought it'd be fun to make a miniature log cabin of our dreams yes and turn it into a nightlight to keep us cozy all the time yes here we go so we're gonna be creating four walls and we decided to keep it pretty simple just because it is a big task now we did a little homework and we made a template now this is all to size we're gonna use this as a guide as we work yes for our logs we downsized a little bit we're going to be using wooden dowels to create our walls but before we get started we need to cut these to size and for that we're going to use a miniature saw timber we've been cutting up a storm here you can see i'm using the template as a guide we want alternating pieces so that they uh lock together so we have a long piece and then a short piece i'm using the dotted line as a guide for my longer pieces and then the solid line as a guide for my smaller pieces we have our first sides done here for the top triangle we didn't want to cut all those pieces we're actually gonna cut it after we glue it so i'm using um some leftover scrap pieces some dowels here and just gonna glue it in order um you know just so that it's larger than the triangle and then we're gonna cut it down to size using the saw once it's all dry and then actually for a little bit of extra stability and security i'm actually going to use a mini uh popsicle stick here just to hold it all together because we really don't want it to pop off or kind of fall apart when we try to saw it and then this way we can glue this right to the side of the house double duty all right i'm gonna set this aside and i'll get another piece of parchment paper and start on the other sides looking pretty good and then if you want if you're feeling a little worried about the glue um you know we're going to be painting this so you can just add little glue there in the crevices of the logs you know just for a little more comfort in knowing that all your hard work won't fall apart our triangle sections are dry i'm just going to cut out the triangle here to use as a guide while i'm sawing i'm going to use some double-sided tape and i'm actually going to tape it right to the piece of wood there i want it flush to the bottom i'm actually going to use a clamp to clamp this down and then i'm going to start some everything's looking really good we're gonna peel these off the parchment paper there you can see it's a little uh rough and it's still drying uh but now i'm just going to glue my little triangle shape there to the top and then we're going to set these to dry and work on our roofs we went back and forth a few times about this we were originally going to make the roof out of craft sticks you see we have some uh trial and error pieces here but we love how much the dowels look that we decided to keep the roof with the dowels um we're essentially gonna make the roof the same way we made the walls just glue them all together yeah and now we're gonna make our base as well we're going to keep that really simple just use some balsa wood the house is just going to sit on here but before we do that we're going to drill a hole right in the middle for the night light to just poke through yes we're almost there oh my gosh i cannot wait now that we have our base cut i'm just going to cut a piece of felt to size and we're going to glue that right on top we want to add the felt for a little more uh texture character but of course you can leave this all natural or you can paint it um we kind of went back and forth with a lot of these um these little details you know we were thinking maybe snow but then i don't know we wanted to be more like uh evergreen rather than like a winter yes um you know this way we can use it all year round if we wanted to and actually we can um add embellishments like per season so like maybe for valentine's day we could do a little heart on the door or like for easter put a little bunny in the yard yeah some flowers for may i love where this is go all right now for the hole i'm just going to keep it really easy since you're not going to see it i'm just going to eyeball it perfect all right now i'm just going to use craft glue for this and glue it right on we have our parchment paper windows glued on now we're just gonna start putting it all together you of course could uh use some super glue or the craft glue to put it together uh but you know these actually work right in place uh so you can carefully slide them in there yeah they seem like they're really snug which is nice and if you have any gaps or anything you can fill it in with a little bit of glue or of course you can cut more dowels to size and kind of just fill it in there but this actually looks pretty good really good oh my gosh so cute our roof is dry it's looking good now time for the next step we're going to add a coat of paint to the roof we decided we're going to leave the cabin all natural just the way it is but we are gonna add some acrylic paint to the top of the roof we also cut out a chimney using a square dowel that we're gonna add on uh once we're finished yeah we're gonna paint that too and then when that's all dry we're going to glue the roof together to itself in a peak just so we can hopefully lift it on and off if we need to change the light bulb or anything like that we're just going to be using super glue for that and i think then we're pretty much done oh my gosh and just for safety we recommend using an led bulb oh my gosh it looks utterly charming it was a lot of work but totally worth it yeah we can't wait to move in yeah let us know how you're going to stay cozy this winter in a comment below don't forget to like and subscribe and we'll see you soon bye youhey welcome back to handmade at home i'm dennis i'm andrew we're the crafty lumberjacks i don't know about you but we plan on staying in and hibernating all winter long oh yeah and of course we would love to be in a cozy log cabin but we live in a new york queens apartment yes so inspired by mary anne's miniature videos we thought it'd be fun to make a miniature log cabin of our dreams yes and turn it into a nightlight to keep us cozy all the time yes here we go so we're gonna be creating four walls and we decided to keep it pretty simple just because it is a big task now we did a little homework and we made a template now this is all to size we're gonna use this as a guide as we work yes for our logs we downsized a little bit we're going to be using wooden dowels to create our walls but before we get started we need to cut these to size and for that we're going to use a miniature saw timber we've been cutting up a storm here you can see i'm using the template as a guide we want alternating pieces so that they uh lock together so we have a long piece and then a short piece i'm using the dotted line as a guide for my longer pieces and then the solid line as a guide for my smaller pieces we have our first sides done here for the top triangle we didn't want to cut all those pieces we're actually gonna cut it after we glue it so i'm using um some leftover scrap pieces some dowels here and just gonna glue it in order um you know just so that it's larger than the triangle and then we're gonna cut it down to size using the saw once it's all dry and then actually for a little bit of extra stability and security i'm actually going to use a mini uh popsicle stick here just to hold it all together because we really don't want it to pop off or kind of fall apart when we try to saw it and then this way we can glue this right to the side of the house double duty all right i'm gonna set this aside and i'll get another piece of parchment paper and start on the other sides looking pretty good and then if you want if you're feeling a little worried about the glue um you know we're going to be painting this so you can just add little glue there in the crevices of the logs you know just for a little more comfort in knowing that all your hard work won't fall apart our triangle sections are dry i'm just going to cut out the triangle here to use as a guide while i'm sawing i'm going to use some double-sided tape and i'm actually going to tape it right to the piece of wood there i want it flush to the bottom i'm actually going to use a clamp to clamp this down and then i'm going to start some everything's looking really good we're gonna peel these off the parchment paper there you can see it's a little uh rough and it's still drying uh but now i'm just going to glue my little triangle shape there to the top and then we're going to set these to dry and work on our roofs we went back and forth a few times about this we were originally going to make the roof out of craft sticks you see we have some uh trial and error pieces here but we love how much the dowels look that we decided to keep the roof with the dowels um we're essentially gonna make the roof the same way we made the walls just glue them all together yeah and now we're gonna make our base as well we're going to keep that really simple just use some balsa wood the house is just going to sit on here but before we do that we're going to drill a hole right in the middle for the night light to just poke through yes we're almost there oh my gosh i cannot wait now that we have our base cut i'm just going to cut a piece of felt to size and we're going to glue that right on top we want to add the felt for a little more uh texture character but of course you can leave this all natural or you can paint it um we kind of went back and forth with a lot of these um these little details you know we were thinking maybe snow but then i don't know we wanted to be more like uh evergreen rather than like a winter yes um you know this way we can use it all year round if we wanted to and actually we can um add embellishments like per season so like maybe for valentine's day we could do a little heart on the door or like for easter put a little bunny in the yard yeah some flowers for may i love where this is go all right now for the hole i'm just going to keep it really easy since you're not going to see it i'm just going to eyeball it perfect all right now i'm just going to use craft glue for this and glue it right on we have our parchment paper windows glued on now we're just gonna start putting it all together you of course could uh use some super glue or the craft glue to put it together uh but you know these actually work right in place uh so you can carefully slide them in there yeah they seem like they're really snug which is nice and if you have any gaps or anything you can fill it in with a little bit of glue or of course you can cut more dowels to size and kind of just fill it in there but this actually looks pretty good really good oh my gosh so cute our roof is dry it's looking good now time for the next step we're going to add a coat of paint to the roof we decided we're going to leave the cabin all natural just the way it is but we are gonna add some acrylic paint to the top of the roof we also cut out a chimney using a square dowel that we're gonna add on uh once we're finished yeah we're gonna paint that too and then when that's all dry we're going to glue the roof together to itself in a peak just so we can hopefully lift it on and off if we need to change the light bulb or anything like that we're just going to be using super glue for that and i think then we're pretty much done oh my gosh and just for safety we recommend using an led bulb oh my gosh it looks utterly charming it was a lot of work but totally worth it yeah we can't wait to move in yeah let us know how you're going to stay cozy this winter in a comment below don't forget to like and subscribe and we'll see you soon bye you\n"