Every wall bay of a cabin is now one whole made panel, in logs, riven boards, dry stone or wattle, each with its own doorway and window, and every roof bay is one made section, so walls and roof no longer show cracks, gaps or pieces clipping through each other. Log courses line up across the posts, and the floor has a squared rim timber.
Thatch is new. Tie a thatch wall in your hands from two poles, four sticks and twelve plant fiber and stand it on a floor’s edge like the others, and tie a thatch roof bay from three poles, six sticks and twenty plant fiber. Each roof bay keeps its own thatch or shakes, so a roof can mix them. From inside, the walls show their real logs, boards, stone, wattle and thatch instead of a blank back.
Through the day each material was remade closer to the real thing: the stone wall as fieldstone and split blocks of different sizes with deep joints, the wattle wall with its clay daub packed into the weave and crumbling at the top, the gables as one piece of riven boards with battens, a split-log cap along the ridge, and a half wall that is its own waist-high wall in every material instead of a full wall squashed to half height.
