Building Wild

The Cabin Kings tackle their largest-ever build — a 1,350-square-foot cabin at the top of a mountain for a larger-than-life New York Jets fan. Their client, Sean Winters, wants a place where he and his team of family and friends can tailgate during Jets away games and enjoy his massive property’s 17 miles of trails on their ATVs and snowmobiles.

Ain't no mountain high enough, as Paulie and Tuffy struggle to build a mountaintop cabin over a waterfall. Their clients have long dreamed of a cabin that takes advantage of their property's incredible view of the Hudson River Valley.

Father and son fishing fanatics demand a cabin that can sail out onto their family pond. The Cabin Kings must hustle to keep their dream of a floating cabin afloat.

The Cabin Kings set out to build their heaviest and most logistically demanding cabin to date. Their client, Danielle Epstein, wants Paulie and Tuffy to build her a cabin made almost entirely out of stone. Danielle owns a parcel of land in Dorset, Vermont, including a marble quarry that was abandoned about 100 years ago. The quarry still contains many cut slabs of marble, some weighing up to seven tons. Danielle hopes to use these slabs to build a stone sanctuary that looks like it has been on the property for centuries.

Paulie and Tuffy have built many innovative cabins, but this episode’s aviation-themed cabin on a towering hilltop could be their most complex to date. Client Mike Steindl is a professional pilot who wants a cabin that reflects his two greatest loves — the wild blue yonder and the wild outdoors. Mike wants a four-season cabin for those rare days when he and his squadron of friends are not up in the skies and just want to kick back and enjoy the wild.

Building a cabin getaway high up in a maple tree in just five days; fulfilling a newly engaged young man's childhood dream of having his own treehouse on his family's 22-acre Vermont property.

This week, Paulie and Tuffy head to the Hynicks’ 83-acre, maple-covered property set in Cambridge, New York, to build one of their most challenging cabin combinations to date. Their clients, Glenn and Doug, are avid motorcycle riders who want to revive their maple syrup business after walking away from it 35 years ago. To build the Hynicks’ dream cabin, the Cabin Kings must not only learn how to make a functioning “Sugar Shack,” but also a bar/hangout for this motorcycle-loving family and their friends.

Chad Wysocki of Hoosick Falls, New York, is part of a new nationwide boom in home beer brewing. Chad works at a local brewery by day, but in his down time, he dreams of having a cabin in the woods to create his own special beer. Chad’s dairy farmer father, Jeff, longs for a place to relax after his hard days working on the family farm. The Cabin Kings are tasked with using materials found on the farm to build this backwoods brewing cabin — from a dilapidated corn crib with an old tin roof, to an 800-gallon stainless steel milk tank, to a rusted table saw.

Kyle Seifert and his father, Ron, are professional auctioneers and lifelong collectors of everything from antiques to machinery to building materials. They have barns filled with collectibles, and it has been their dream to incorporate these into a cabin that can still be livable and uncluttered. The challenge for Paulie and Tuffy is to incorporate as many collectibles as possible while maximizing space. The Seiferts don’t make it easy for the Cabin Kings, asking them to incorporate an old gas pump, a wall made almost entirely of windows and Ron’s rust-ridden 1956 car.

Paulie and Tuffy are revving up for one of their most unique builds yet: a mountaintop motorhead getaway for beloved family man Doug Marpe. Doug asks the Cabin Kings to create a “convertible” bedroom that slides out from the second floor, allowing the family to sleep under the stars. The build site is at the top of an unforgiving mountain road, and getting the family and supplies to the location looks like it’s going to be a problem.