Nik I am a 74 year old man who ran a construction company for 40 years and I can honestly say you are the most talented person I have ever seen at what you do. Thank you for sharing.

I have been following for 4 years now, watched your videos from the beginning of observing which trees to cut for the fabulous log cabin/house, I literally love every little small detail you and your family has put in it, now it's almost finished and I'm going to miss watching you work on it, but I'm sure you will come up with something amazingly beautiful to share with us. Who agrees with me?

I have been watch so many channel , I never see anyone build like this man , from skills , tallent, design, it’s so impressed me , great work ever ❤❤

we always hear of people saying, "This old house been in my family for generations.. my great granddaddy built it from scratch with his is bare hands." ... Now we've seen first hand, such stories very well can be true.

All of us who've been following Nik knew the railings would be something artisanal not plain Jane store bought

Nik, I am a 78 yr. old woman and am in awe if your skills, creativity and passion for what you do. The artistry is just mind boggling. I remember, as a child, sitting on the floor of my father' shop with a block of wood some nails and a hammer watching him turning a beautiful piece of wood into a gorgeous chair leg or spindles for hair backs. He was a master carpenter who could build anything out of wood. He taught me the beauty he saw in the different wood grains, and to this day I can still remember his smell, like freshly cut wood. I hope that your children will always enjoy their memories they will have of watching you build the magnificent things you build, and enjoy the stunning artistry of it all. Your wife is also very talented at all that she does. I love how you share the wonderful times you two have in the snow and how in tune with nature you all are. God bless you and family and when you are done with your cabin I can hardly see what comes next. Much love from Virginia, USA.

Let's ALL assist in enhancing NIK's KZfaq algorithm, like I'm viewing, liking and commenting from Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA.

It's incredible to see the entire construction process of this cabin from the beginning to its current state, good work

You always take time to capture natures awesome beauty and share it with us through your eyes. You show the strength of the wind in the clouds as they gently race over the hills and mountains. They move to the tune of hidden music that only stillness can hear. And as you sit quietly upon that summit I realize you are listening to that very music. Indeed you are a special person. Thank you for sharing your vision with us. Most grateful, Me southern AZ. (USA)

Your view of the world is so beautiful, seeing through your eyes is a gift...

The Balcony with the glass is such an amazing touch. such an artistic build. been watching since the first video and have not missed one yet. thank you for sharing this master piece with all of us.

The addition of glasses floor is great

Nature has allowed you to be her spokesperson for her beauty and to live within her. Beautiful woodworking, Nik, and seeing your family joining in on the assembling and prep work was soul satisfying. Thank you from all the way across the big waters here in the middle of the US of A.

thankful for you sharing this with us. It's a balm for a tattered mind, to watch your videos.

The mountain misty scenes are super poetic! And you are truly an artist seeing your railings

A work of art ❤

So much beauty! Congratulations to you, your wife and your new baby! Nice work!

this house is going to be here for a loooooooooong time

anything you do It is always full of emotion, art and heart It's like watching nature's gallery in the best possible way 🥇🥇💗💗

It's always such a pleasure to see you, your work and of course the family. Thank you

love the sticks on the balcony, see you been shopping in the woods again.

Someone get Daddy-a-Beer because he is knocking out some very funky stuff right now! NICE JOB;)

Hey Nik and family, please don’t stop making these AWESOME VIDEOS! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯

Beautiful work man. Following since the beginning. 👍👍

His is a beautiful piece of work, such artistry! Your great, great,great, great grandchildren should be able to enjoy it and the stories that will be passed down.

Absolutely magical footage of the forest

Awesome glass balcony. The steps up to the porch are elegant. The detail with the wood on the porch railing is exquisite. Your home is lovely. ❤

Man I love watching these videos! Thank you for putting them out more often, Nik!

I hope this is not the end of us seeing u and your family on here especially building something as I think u r awesome and a show I always look forward to watching your progress in this life. I am perminantly in a wheelchair anbd at 73 this year love watching your journey 381 u beautiful people.

Seeing that 'shack' from the first episode sure does seem like a long time ago! I loved the early days of this project, it was meditative watching you take on such a large goal in the midst of quarantine. I too know about these large solo projects but your videos have been a real joy. Thanks you

It's alwauys wonderful to watch you design amd build. Very good to visit with your family and friends. Blessings on you, your family, and on your homestead!🌧😌📚🦉🫖🖖🐈‍⬛🥧🌲⛈️

Nik, Glad you got your mojo back, although i doubt you were just sitting around. Love what you've done to the place!

Beaucoup d'inventivité, de recherche et d'inspiration ! Bravissimo ! Congratulations for your esposa !

Great job and absolutely beautiful work of art.

Beautiful balconies & porches, stone steps are nice. Glass floor on the second story balcony is unique! let's in the light. The scenery and music towards the end is peaceful ~ Thank You for Sharing!

you are really skillful. It's great to sit there and enjoy a cup of tea

Nik Rijavec, you are energy saving👍 Once more, l love ❤️ scenic view surrounding your lovely home.😊

Amazing work as always. I loved the footage of the clouds. very peaceful. a very beautiful place you live

From day one of watching you pull logs from the forest to seeing it now, this grandmother has been watching with amazement of your artful knowledge of wood and the methods of maneuvering those massive logs into place! That roof really scared me! Wow! Thankyou for sharing your documentation of it with us.! You and your beautiful family have such an amazing legacy to recall in your Home build.. 💯❤🕊P.S. I didn't think that stump table was ever gonna make through that doorway! 👍

Super travail et super famille des vidéos de paysages super vivement la prochaine vidéo

You have art in your hands Nik, great work, it is a pleasure to watch your videos, in addition to getting ideas for my work you can have a good time watching every progress in your home! Greetings and thanks for sharing

Incredible creativity and vision. Wow. Just wow

Bonjour et bravo pour tout le travail. Merci de nous faire partager les vidéos.

Thank you very, very much for videos like this. You are a man not just to be admired but to be envied. It's great to see your family contribute too! Wonderful channel!

NIK, YOU HAVE NATURAL BORN TALENT!!!!!

true craftsmanship here!

This is such amazing channel. The log cabin is a work of art. Just incredible.

Beautiful addition to the cabin, thank you for sharing. Y'all take care.

Nik, your a wonderful human

Nick, you're getting grey. You are a gifted craftsman and I love your videos. That is a very clever jig you devised to remove the bark from branches. :)

After all these years it is still pure joy to watch you use a chainsaw .

I started watching when you were hauling the logs by chain that's long ago! I was astounded when you got the tree stump in the house! you are talented! the kid's play area in the house is too cool! we renovate and so I love shows like this!

Simply beautiful, Nik. The glass took your design to another level, literally.😂👍 I am baffled by what you have in store for that stump you hollowed out from the side. Perhaps you can use my idea. Why not do the same from the top then add your finessing with the grinder and a little sanding then to finish off, glass added on top of it. Could that be the beginning of a porch table? Surely it can't have anything to do with the inside of the house, can it? 🤔 Your home looks better every time I see it. All that beautiful wood the textures, the feeling it generates. There is so much nature inside as there is outside. Just like the church bells in the distance, they were a nice addition to the video. Hearing them took me back to the times when my wife and I lived in Italy and Sicily many years ago. Shortish story coming up. I was on holiday with my parents in a town called Siena, Italy in 1980. Aged just 18, I fell instantly head over heals in love with who I thought was a local girl. I spoke no Italian, and she spoke no English, and yet, we both knew there was a connection. We knew each others names and a few odd words only. We gazed into each others eys all day long not knowing what thoughts were in her head. In short, we spoke the language of love. No sex, no touching, apart from kissing, lots of kissing, holding hands and cuddling, lots of cuddling. Just honest, simple, innocent love. Those were the best three weeks of my life. We exchanged addresses, and then I left for England. 😢 We wrote to each other once a month at first. My Italian like my handwriting was poor but her English was good and her handwriting was beautiful. I got myself a good translation dictionary and a good thesaurus. I was told having the two would better help me and impress more. It gave so many different meanings for a word, a sentence, something my Italian dictionary in school never had. Until that day I had never heard of a thesaurus dictionary. We learned so much about each other, and our letters got longer and more in depth. That is when I found out she was not Italian but Sicilian. 😮 To me, it meant nothing but to a Sicilian, it means everything! For those who do not know, Sicilians do not like to be called Italian. 🤬 They are Sicilians. An island which is separate from Italy, who just happen to speak Italian, but they do have a language of their own. She told me about her family tree and it's connection with the 'Cosa Nostra' the mafia, 😬 which worried me. 🙏 All I could think about were shotgun weddings and being killed by stray machine gun bullets. This was thanks to the Godfather 1 and 2 mafia films I watched about the families feud with one another. Then I learned the connection went back more than 400 years before there was ever a mafia. She said I had nothing to worry about. If her father accepted me, which he would, then I was in. In what, I thought in a secret society? In truth, I was paranoid. The connection was blood, from weddings, not because of gang membership. Okay, I got that but still... The only gun her father owned was a shot gun used to kill animals for food and an old army rifel that belonged to his father which had no bullets. No machine guns and definitely no dynamite!💥 No arguments, no fued with any families. Suffice to say our relationship grew stronger and our letter writing grew more frequent until we were writing every day. Then one day she wrote saying her family were moving back home to Sicily but first, they would visit England for a short holiday, London to be precise, which is where I am from. Brilliant! 😁 Hallelujah, we started thinking up crazy ways of how to meet up. How difficult could it be, after all, the woman of my dreams was 21 years old, 5 months older than me. We were not children any more. She could go off on her own, right? Her parents would allow her to go explore London, to see things that young people like to see and not hang with your parents all day and night? What neither of us knew at that time was that her parents knew all about us, our feeling for each other. They knew we had been communicating every week then every day for a year since 1980. They knew everything I told their daughter because they had read every letter I sent her. They had also read her diaries and journals. They had a good idea in their mind about me and what they hoped I was like from letters I wrote. They knew intimate personal things I told Nicola or Nikki as I called her and what she thought of me. Their prayers were answered when they met me and when they found out everything I had told Nikki was true. If only we had known this in the beginning. 🥰 So, we arranged to meet up in Trafalgar Square at 3 pm only she was late. 🙄 A woman's perogative you would say, but no, not in this case. She arrived 20 minutes late with her parents on either side of her with linked arms. OMG, I am so dead. 🪦 Wrong, they wanted to believe every word that was written by me was true. So, from the moment they made plans to visit England, to when they got on the plane flying to London they talked. They talked about me, my intentions, and if their daughter truly believed I loved her and that I was the one for her. They were still discussing me in the hotel, which is why they were late that day. We spent the day together, mum, dad, Nikki and me, and the following day, then the next we visited my family, who put everyone up for the next two nights. I felt as though I was being vetted, and I was. We then spent every day together for two weeks, and then Nikki and her parents left, but not alone. I went with them to their home in Sicily with my mum. 🤗 Dad had to stay at home because he could not fly. He could not get permission from his doctor because of his illness. So, mum was his eyes and ears taking lots of photos and videos on their old movie tone 8mm camera. I spent a month getting to know the whole family and mum was living a dream. It was like meeting the whole island there was that many of them. Nikki had such a large family, 128 large not including children and grandchildren. The only person I did not seem to get along with at first was 'Mio fidanzato', my fiancées grandfather, on her mothers side. He hated us British because of how his family were treated during WWII. But that's a story best left in the past. They day came when mum and I had to fly home. It was a very emotional day, as you can imagine with lots or crying tears and cuddling. Nikkies parents had quite taken to Frances, my mum and she to them. Mum told me on the flight home that she never wanted to leave and cried all the way home.😭 Years pass and we got married in a beautiful 16th centry Sicilian church decorated with paintings, statues, and gold. Sadly, both my parents had to stay at home. Dad for the same reason as before and mum had a water infection, ladies problems, as she called them but we made sure there were plenty of photos and films for them to see. Nikkies father was into home cinema. He was always making films 🎥 so he made some films for my mum and dad to watch at home on a movie projector he gave them as a wedding gift. 📽 A film of the entire wedding, the party and some others about Sicily and Sicilian life. It's something Nikkies parents wanted to do. 🎁 📽 The ceremony took ages, but I didn't care. My wife looked gorgeous, the most beautiful woman in Sicily. Following our four week honeymoon in Venice, then Lake Como, Capri, Portofino, and Catania, we returned to her home to say our goodbyes. Two days later we left for London to live with my parents for a few years to save up our money. Nikki got a job in advertising, which in London at the time was very well paid. I helped with the family business. 18 months later we were living in Tuscany, Italy from 1985 to 1991, then we moved to Palermo Sicily, from 1991 to 1999, which was probably the best 8 years of my life. I saw every part of that island, above and below and the people, those people were so lovely, friendly and kind. We also lived with her parents for a while from 2000 to 2003 until I had to return home to see my parents.😔 My father was very sick with not long to live. He passed a few days later which is when mum asked us to move in with her permanently. She said the house would be ours anyway so now was a good time. Mum died 2 months later of natural causes. We think of a broken heart if truth be known. Mum and dad were childhood sweethearts. They were married for 64 years.👏👏👏 We continue to live in England, but my heart was and still is in Sicily. What wonderful years we spent there. I want to retire there, I will retire there sooner rather than later. Arrivederci! That means, 'Goodbye, see you soon'. Alla prossima Sicily. That means, 'Until next time Sicily' 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚒️

When I can't see your house getting more beautiful, you just go and make it so. Absolutely love it!

so impressive, and the cinematology is mesmerizing. ty

Two videos 7 days apart? Our cups runneth over.

Wow!!! Beautiful! You are so imaginative and talented!! I'm always excited to see what you are going to come up with next! Also, the videos at the end sharing such beautiful scenes - breathtaking!! Thank you to you and your family!!!

So smart to put a double railing on the balcony - one to affix the bannisters and one to lean on. Not many people would think of the safety aspect. The glass floor is stunning!😍🇨🇦

Nik, beautiful work. Railing design is very creative. Nice job!

I love it when I get a notification from Nik Rijavec yippee theres no other craftsman like you Nik.😊😊😊

So beautiful. What a wonderful gift you all are… what cant you do together. You even have a chicken whisperer!

Congratulations to you both. 😊

Haven’t watched your channel for a while…your imagination…skill & craftsmanship along with consistency in quality and detail are of the highest order….the glass floor, your railings are perfect 👍…stay safe..

Nick is beautiful I never see like this great job.

Grande nik! Complimenti per la tua splendida casa in uno splendido posto con la tua bellissima famiglia! Sei di ispirazione per tante persone! E ancora congratulazioni per il nuovo/a arrivato…che ormai avrà 5/6 mesi!😀

Nik, you’ve done it again - taken utilitarian but necessary features of the house and turned them into magical creations! Beautiful! Looking forward to meeting your new little one - your son and daughter must be very excited!😍🇨🇦

Beautiful!!! You certainly have an artistic talent!!!

Ótima ideia do vidro Paisagem parece de filme Porém e a natureza simples plena Exuberante e um lugar Diferenciado único Patabens

Well done, from California. Have watched since logs were harvested through the four seasons..

Nik your thoughts and dreams are coming true! Your ideas are beyond what the common man can imagine! Thanks for sharing your wisdom and journey! Kevin

The only thing that I can say is: WOW

@ 51:50 the church bells in the background sound wonderful !!!

Your work is amazing you have a great imagination

Bonjour Nik , on a du vous le dire quelques fois mais je salue votre travail et tout ce courage, très jolie maison pour acceuillir bientôt un heureux évènement, respect amitiés à votre dame et vous . Gerard ( France)

Nik, the scale effects and overall appearance of the house is amazing. When you started I did not get where you were headed with this house. Now I am overwhelmed with the final result. Really a work of art in all aspects. My hat is off to you!

You make me dream of such beautiful things, thank you!!

Just found your site via Natural Log House. Planning to build an off-grid cabin with a view of a river. Subscribed.

The porch railings look beautiful! 😍 Blessings to you and your wife on the soon to be new addition to the family!❤

Incredible! A magnificent accomplishment.

always love to see you and your family. thank you for showing us true craftsmanship.

What beautiful work my hubby and I have been watching you since you were flying on your bike with your buddies....may god bless you and your family and congrats on your blessing of a baby Blessings and prosperity

Outstanding Performance.

Congratulations on the coming baby!

Those railings are amazing

So great Nik! Thank you! Parry Sound, ON.

Nik I am so very impressed! Your exceptional artistic vision is really coming through in your beautiful home but also in the quality and content of your videos. The nature scenes you have captured in the past few videos are simply mesmerizing. The glass floor on the balcony is quite ingenious and will allow the light to flood the porch to keep it bright and happy. I am enjoying your videos just like in the old days, I am so glad you are back to posing regularly, you have made my day! Here is the US we are starting our big annual Memorial Day Weekend and I can't think of a better way to get in a festive mood than to watch your beautiful video today!

Beautiful scenery.

Stunningly beautiful again.

I love your channel awesome work and congratulations on your new baby 🎶🥳🙏🙏🙏

Your work is impeccable! Between skill and artistry, there's nobody better! Awesome job once again!!

Stunning. All of it. The videography of the forest made me feel as though I was there. Best regards to all and thank you!

It just goes to show with vision and a chainsaw what you can produce absolutely amazing workmanship

Congratulations on your newest baby!

I am in complete agreement with comment the gentleman directly blow me ,made. FANTASTIC!!!!

che meraviglia!!!!se passo in Slovenia devo venire a vederla dal vivo...per me non se nemmeno un costruttore ma un artista 🤩punto!!!

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Absolutely unbelievably amazing. I was thinking you needed to view the porch through the balcony. I envisioned a round port hole or two. You did so much better. 👍👍👍

Que linda sua varanda e esse chão de vidro, muito bom, aqueles galhos secos deu uma visão magnífica, parabéns Nick, amo vocês e seus vídeos 🇧🇷💗

This cabin is really one of a kind. So many cool details and features.

Wow the glass floor is amazing Nik, and are the railings, steps etc on the front porch and balcony 👍

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