DULUTH — Steam rising from his body, Justin Meinhold stepped off a 36-foot barge moored in a harbor slip and moved to a floating platform, its center jaw opened to the frigid water below. The Duluth ...

When water hits hot river rocks in a sauna, crackling into instant steam, the sound mimics cracking open a can of a cold, carbonated beverage. A wave of humid heat washes over those inside, coaxing ...

The owners call this a hand-carved house, and they have excellent reasons to do so. To start with, the soaring timbers that frame it were all hewn by hand — not machine — the work of a family in ...

In this video, we build the frame for a secondhand window for the log sauna and add another layer of logs using a new technique, gradually improving our efficiency in this build. We also begin the ...