Hello again, I'm here to talk about some of the updates made to the cabin since my last post about our cabin above the arctic circle. So far, my summer has been very busy with the cabin expansion as well as hosting my father over the month of July. (Did you know we could have sent him to Australia for a month and saved a LOT of money!? He hasn't even left Canada!) If you remember from our last post, we had moved an 8' x 12' shed to the back end of the cabin to make a bedroom addition. We also planned on tackling the siding. Progress has been made on both of these endeavors and I am happy to say that one of them is nearly finished! The shed/bedroom (or Shedroom if you will) has been pushed up to the back of the cabin and the interior portion is nearly sealed in. Exterior sealing will be completed over the next week once some flashing can be sourced from the dump. Which means I'm actually waiting for the smell to die down a bit so that I can handle being in there for a while. She's a tad ripe under this summer sun. Igloolik, Nunavut has been very warm and very dry over the past few weeks. A lovely change from the constant rain of last year.
The Shedroom was surprisingly simple to push up to the back of the cabin. My wife and I laid down a pallet path in front of the cabin to support some thick iron pipes we found at the dump. We used the pipes as rollers underneath the shed and used our ATV to nudge the shed up to the back end of the cabin. The shed had its door removed and then was then lifted slightly to allow for removal of the rollers and pallets below. We cut a hole into the cabin as wide as the doorway on the shed which was conveniently the distance between four of the internal studs. After that we positioned some 4 x 4 blocks to drop the shed on so that it would leave enough room for us to create a new floor on top of the current one which was previously used to house quads and snowmobiles in their off-season. When we put the shed into its final spot by ramming it with two quads at the same time we expected to have to level the building, but to our great surprise, it was completely level! So level, in fact, that it made it painfully obvious how unlevel the original part of the cabin is. 😅
Moving the bed into the Shedroom has made a ton of space for us and our two dogs! We have a futon couch lined up to fill the gap below the dragonfly blanket. I also ordered a nice TV mount for the far wall to mount an old 37" television so that we can watch movies and game at the cabin. We plan on replacing some of the milk crates with shelves and a counter in-between the fireplace and the table since we've noticed that a lack of counterspace is very annoying.
Thank you for taking a browse at our off-grid cabin upgrades. Follow me for future updates on what we've done for our power situation as well as some beautiful photographs of the arctic tundra.
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