How To Build The Perfect Off Grid Cabin: Living Off The Grid The Way It’s Meant To Be

Imagine for a moment the perfect off grid cabin in the wilderness. An off grid survival cabin you can call home. Living off the grid the way it’s mean to be. What does that look like to you? Where is it? Is it nestled in the evergreens high in the mountains, or alongside an alpine lake in a lush valley surrounded by nature and beauty. A peaceful place you can call home. A place untouched by the concrete hand of the city dwellers, money brokers, bankers, lawyers, and giant concrete and crystal towers of Main St. downtown anywhere. No more horns honking, screeching of tires, sirens, or signs selling you every imaginable wonder of the world except for what really matters. Happiness. Freedom. Peace. The Perfect Off Grid Cabin That calm you feel when you look out over the lake from the comfort of your log cabin built with your own hands, on your own time and on your own land. The feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction and pride that comes with from building your own home. That’s perfection. That moment, that peaceful bliss warmed by a cup of tea or coffee brewed on your cast iron stove you hauled up the mountain to place just so, on stones you moved just a little ways from it’s place in the wilderness to borrow for a short time. You’re the temporary caretaker of that land, your dream and this little peace of paradise for a little while. The trees give you shelter, the rock a foundation to build on, the iron stove to keep you warm during the cold winters. Through it all, you can relax and enjoy your cabin, you little peace of perfection. That to me is the perfect off grid cabin. You can’t get any more perfect than Dick Proenneke’s off grid cabin in the Alaskan wilderness. When you think of the perfect off grid cabin, this is the cabin that comes to mind. Author’s Note: I think that when people watch Dick Proenneke Build his off grid cabin in the unspoiled gorgeous wilderness of Alaska, I believe this to be what the believe the perfect off grid cabin is supposed to look like. Built into nature, not on top of it. Living one with it, not exploiting it. Respecting the earth. Not destroying it for a profit. I think people watch Dick build this cabin and get inspired to build their own. It inspires dreams of living off the grid in the wilderness, away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Free from being stuck in traffic, spending 2-3 hours a day just commuting back and forth to work. Your work on a homestead is just right there. Just a few steps out your front door. The view of the lake, the mountains, the forest and all the wildlife. Proenneke live in that cabin for 30 years. Filming the wildlife, helping to protect the area, and now that whole area is under the protection of the Nation