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What Is a Yurt? A Guide to Semi-Permanent Cabin Style Dwellings
The Field Mag Guide to Yurts: Semi-Permanent Cabins Fit for Everywhere

From history and construction to how to buy or build your own, this definitive guide explores all aspects of life in these classic circular shelters

How to Make Your Own DIY Chore Coat: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to Make Your Own Chore Coat: A Step-by-Step DIY Guide

Constructing your own garments isn’t as complex as it seems, as long as you take it one stitch at a time

Best Outdoor Shower Guide: Design Ideas & Shower Kits You Can Trust
Outdoor Shower Guide: Design Inspo, Tips, and Tricks for Buying & Building Your Own

A deep dive into the different types of outdoor showers, which to buy, and inspiration for building your own

How to Build a DIY Sauna in Your Backyard for $5,600
How to Build Your Own DIY Sauna for Less Than 6K: A Step-by-Step Guide

Canadian builder Andrew Szeto shares a full build breakdown, including cost, time, tools required, and pro tips from his whimsical backyard sauna

Redwood Outdoors Review: What It’s Like to Build a Sauna Kit in My Backyard
Redwood Outdoors Sauna Review: What It’s Like to Build a DIY Backyard Sauna

First hand experience of what it’s like to build a Thermowood Mini-Cube 2-Person Sauna in my backyard in coastal Maine.

A-frame House Guide: History, Benefits, Building Tips & Kits to Buy
A Definitive Guide to the A-Frame House: How to Build & More

A comprehensive rundown of all things A-frame—from structural benefits to what to know before buying, building, or renting one yourself

ADU Plans: An Introductory Guide to Buying & Building Your Own
An Easy Guide to Understanding and Picking ADU Floor Plans

You can buy prefab accessory dwelling units, but ADU plans offer the flexibility of customization to fit your property and needs

How to Build a DIY Hot Tub in Your Backyard: Step-by-Step Guide
A Step-by-Step DIY Guide to Building Your Own Backyard Hot Tub

Materials, tools, and clear and complete instructions on building your own off-grid wood fired hot tub for around $2,000

New Book "How to Build a Treehouse" Will Help You Build a Canopy Cabin
This New Book Will Help You Finally Build That Dream Treehouse

Through beautiful hand-drawings and ultra-detailed instructions, this handy guide shows readers how to construct a treehouse from start to finish

Women and the Wind: Crossing the Atlantic in a 50-Year-Old Catamaran
Women and The Wind: Sailing Across the Atlantic in a 50-Year-Old Catamaran

In 2022 three women crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a wooden catamaran to document plastic pollution and find adventure, here's how

Inside Kings Glassing, New York City's Resident Surfboard Workshop
Inside the NYC Workshop Where Sought-After Surfboards Are Made

Maui-raised and Brooklyn-based, brothers Aaron and Drew Austin are hand building some of the East Coast's most creative surfboards

How to Develop Film With Beer: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to Develop Film With Beer & Without Toxic Chemicals

A step-by-step home guide to using beer to process black & white film, in place of nasty chemicals like ammonia and formaldehyde

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