One More Reason to Stay.
Handcrafted dovetail log bunkies built across Canada by Laverty Log Homes.
You know the spot. The corner of the property where the light comes in sideways in the morning. The edge of the dock. The clearing at the back of the lot you’ve been walking past for years.
That’s where this goes.
A handcrafted dovetail bunkie isn’t a shed with a window. It’s a proper small structure, built with the same joinery, the same hand tools, the same standards as every Laverty Log Home. Just smaller. Which means it fits on a cottage lot, a rural property, a piece of land you’ve been holding onto until the right idea came along.
It’s a guest cabin. A writing room. A place for the kids that becomes a place for the grandkids. A reason to stay one more night.
The same joinery. A smaller footprint.
Dovetail joinery is one of the oldest and most demanding forms of wood connection. It’s what you see at the corners of a Laverty build, hand-cut, precisely fitted, no fasteners holding it together. Just wood doing what wood has always done when it’s worked by someone who knows what they’re doing.
Earl Laverty and his team of artisans build every bunkie the same way they build everything else. Logs are hand-selected. Joints are hand-cut. The shell is pre-assembled at the Baden shop before it’s delivered to your property. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is standard.
The result is a small structure that looks nothing like a bunkie kit and everything like something that belongs on the land it’s sitting on.
A bunkie for every kind of land.
Laverty builds dovetail bunkies for cottage properties across Canada. This includes Ontario’s adored Muskokas, the Bruce Peninsula, Georgian Bay, and the Kawarthas. These handcrafted bunkies are for anyone with a piece of land and a vision for what belongs on it.
Guest cabin for the cottage. Studio or office away from the main house. Lakeside retreat. Off-grid shelter. A first structure on a lot you’re not ready to build a full home on yet. Whatever the use, the build is the same: handcrafted, dovetail-jointed, and built to last for generations.
Stop dreaming. We can build it.
If you’ve got a piece of land and an idea, that’s enough to start the conversation. Earl answers his own phone, (519) 503-2690