The living room features a handmade wood-burning stove, comfy wool furniture, and a panoramic ice window that frames the frozen landscape.
A bookshelf holds journals from his travels and a photo album of the entire construction process. “It was a lot of trial and error,” James laughs, “but I wouldn’t change a thing.”
He even added a skylight, a small circle of clear ice that fills the room with soft, natural light during the day.