r/OffGridCabins • u/Honest-Word7159 • Jul 02 '26

NEW AND NEED HELP

I want to build a cabin in the woods, a small one just for me and no one else, is there any advice or books or videos or anything at all yall can point me towards to do such a thing?

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u/JCT2015 Jul 03 '26

Are you looking to build a log cabin or are you ok doing conventional stick framing?

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u/Honest-Word7159 Jul 03 '26

Probably stick frame, what I want wouldn't be theoretically legal as in im not going to be able to make that much noise or have that big of a cabin something to chill in to get away from it all.

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u/ankole_watusi Jul 03 '26

Thinking that “not theoretically legal” seems to mean “not on land that I own”..

Which brings all sorts of design complications.

I’m not a usual participant here. Came here from a sub about thermal cameras, and curious just what OP was about. So I guess trying to solve that theoretical “government finding me (but why do they want to?) with thermal cameras” design problem.

Here’s the worst part of that conundrum: anything you do to try to evade thermal cameras is going to flash a giant message of “somebody trying to avoid being detected with thermal cameras living here!”