How to Make & Install Floating Shelves in a Tiny House Rustic Kitchen, DIY Log Cabin, Macaroni

Description

I carve wood dowels and cut pine planks from free wood to make and install floating shelves in the tiny house kitchen at the log cabin, another off grid, rustic DIY project. Using hand tools, I whittle pegs from ash firewood logs and hammer them into holes I drilled in the log walls and pine planks using a brace and bit. The holes are 5/8" and 4 inches deep on both ends. The pine planks are 2" thick, which I used an Alaskan chainsaw mill to cut from red pine logs that I cut down at my friend's property last spring.

At the beginning of the video, my dog, Cali, and I hike across the beaver meadow and down the frozen stream to gather balsam fir logs that Joe and I cut last March. I bring a couple of bundles back to the cabin to use for trimming the windows and the benches in the cabin. The remaining logs will be used to make chairs for the fireside as well as for building materials for the workshop, sugar shack, root cellar or woodshed. My wife films us in the meadow using a Mavic Pro drone and I film the ground level scenes with my 6D, Mark II.

Using hand tools, including a rip saw, a crosscut saw, hammer, brace and bits, axes, drawknife, planes and bushcraft knife, I fashion bulky trim for around the east window.

I have three meals in this video. The first is a beef soup that I made in the last video, which I eat for lunch while working on the rustic kitchen shelves. The second meal is macaroni and cheese, made with shredded aged cheddar and parmesan cheese with butter, flour and cream. On the side, I have fresh sourdough garlic bread, toasted on the woodstove. For breakfast the following morning, I make frittata with smoked salmon and sourdough toast. The egg dish includes, sweet and hot peppers, cheese, smoked sockeye salmon and tomato.

At the end of the video, I talk about how much time I'm spending making things more aesthetic rather than only functional. I want to surround myself with beauty and nature rather than rigid, hard surfaces.

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yes it's been a while since I've shown the loft up here I haven't done any work to it other than put a mattress down and throw some lights up I guess the main reason for that is that I want to chink before I do any of the finish work up here so the plan is to do some built-ins all around the outside perimeter for storage and a little bit of extra insulation and that's pretty well it just do that maybe a headboard along here with some storage and it so I can put some books in it maybe a couple bookshelves even and then a railing along there and I need to build a new ladder so I'm doing some improvements to it considering extending the floor all the way to the other end probably mainly gonna be for you know seasonal clothing you know when summer keeps coming soon so I've all the warm weather gear boots and pants and hats and stuff so it'd be nice to be able to store that up here in the loft that's the thing about a small space especially we have a lot of outdoor gear it's where you put everything so if you need to start incorporating some more storage spaces into the cabin got to downstairs the two benches storage underneath those and lots of room up here to extend it anyway that's it so good night I'll see you in the morning

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all right so here I spent half the day just framing in this window and I do still need a couple strips to fill in the gap here seems ironic maybe or a little bit confusing that I would spend so much time on trim work something that could have just grabbed some two by fours and trimmed this up probably in an hour and instead I spent half a day on it

part of the reason is that I really didn't want to use this dimensional lumber to begin with I just don't find it aesthetically pleasing I prefer to have rough kind of natural Timbers like this and these are not sure what these are I think balsam fir that I cut down as well I think this might be the top of the long balsam fir that I cut that I'm using for the stairs the ladder going up to the loft um and that's another thing that that ladder that I made are too much force for the construction phase that's not a permanent ladder to the loft that's going to be relegated back to construction projects so I'll be making a little bit more rustic and nicer looking ladder but I guess with all the projects that I have sometimes I question whether I should spend so much time doing things like this trying to disapprove the appearance and the rustic feeling to the cabin but to me form is just as important as function and the reason for that is that you know we can surround ourselves with beautiful things or we can surround ourselves with with you know organic and heard surfaces and ugly materials and just never feel like we have a real appreciation for that environment and I know that's true I have lived in an apartment Oh briefly when I was I first started in the trade when I was 23 I guess it was and you know as a miserable experience for me I just couldn't stand living a city to begin with living in an apartment building where all the surfaces are heard there's no beauty it's all just about function packing people in and that was kind of a iOpener for me that that I decided it's just not the way I wanted to live my life I wanted to be in a natural setting and I wanted to surround myself a nature and with beauty so when I get started building this cabin back to what I said a little bit earlier about taming or organizing the chaos that is nature I only want to do that to a certain point because I want to continue to have a bit of both I want to have that wildness and that untamed wilderness and that chaotic in nature but I also want to have some form suffer some function and some organization and that's what their cabin is this linear structure that shelter of the cabin that I talked about earlier is you know that those logs it's kind of like a stockade it gives us that sense of security it's I guess it's a more organization when you think about you know a free-form shelter made out of Earth and materials that doesn't that just blends totally in with nature that's very very cool that's not very common and it may be a little bit too organic a little bit too chaotic a little bit too close to nature this cabin and other shelters that are built out of very linear materials it's kind of an organization of that that nature so I have these logs that started off as random trees through forests and random patterns and growing different sizes in different locations and no pattern to them I cut them down and brought them to this site and I built them into a an organized form so created organization where there wasn't organization previously but then the logs and all this structural lumber has become too linear for me it just don't get that warm feeling that ambience that zen-like feeling that that I really like to have I like to include in my life I like a happy surrounded by beauty like to be surrounded by nature and bringing these logs in and hand healing this green ash that I cut down that's very rough and I like it I have not gonna clean it off I'm not going to straighten out those edges I want it to be freeform I want it to be rough and I want to look like a natural material I want to feel when I'm in this cabin that I'm still out in nature the windows are not overly big I can see out in every direction I could see nature but to be looking past a free-form material like this out into the nature I think is preferable so that's why I'm doing this like I said it doesn't see them maybe like the best use of my time to spend so much time doing something that's more of a form and function but to me that's part of the reason I'm doing this is a long-term project it's a it's a project it's a location in a cabin and you know homestead that I hope to have for the rest of my life so the more things I can do to make it a beautiful place a beautiful experience that I can that I can be fully and absorbed in that's my goal here so I'll start to maybe disassemble or or add to things that are just too functional not beautiful and often start to add to those things and make them more pleasing to the eye into my soul so I think that's it for this video I'm gonna pack up now and take Callie for a walk she's I've been throwing in the training dummy for a lot inside but when I'm into suicide all day like this working she gets quite Restless though gonna pack up it's about two o'clock now I'll take her for a walk and then spend some time with my wife before heading to bed and starting over in the morning so thanks for watching really appreciate it and great week take care

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