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Rustic Log Cabin
Rustic Log Cabin
The Camper to Log Cabin Transition
Are you ready to trade in your camper for a log cabin?
Millions of people in the United States hit the road each year with a camper in tow. If you are one of these people, you know the routine quite well: load up the camper, drive to a campsite, set up the camper, relax for a couple of days (maybe even a week or two), tear down and pack up, haul the camper back home and unload. For many camper enthusiasts, the minor inconveniences of this ritual is more than offset by the few days of pleasure spent enjoying your camping experience.
However, if you are beginning to feel like it is more hassle to take your camper on the road than it’s worth, then maybe it’s time you considered an alternative: a permanent log cabin! With the cost of gas increasing steadily with no end in sight, many people are paying more to get their campers to their destination than they are paying for their campsite fees! And when you add this to a year-round payment (on a camper you can only use part of the year), it is clear to see why many folks are trading up to a permanent log cabin or log camp.
Think about this. A new 35-40 foot camper can retail for between $40,000 and $80,000. And like an automobile, it depreciates significantly the minute you drive it off the dealer’s lot. Now, you’re probably thinking: What about all the creature comforts that make the camper just like home? With a custom designed log cabin, you can have all of those amenities and not have to be so concerned with the wear and tear on those expensive moving (hydraulic) parts.
The best part is that your new log cabin will provide year-round fun and enjoyment for years to come and when the time comes to sell your investment, like most real estate, it will have appreciated in value over time. This means that you are not just throwing your money away!
So ask yourself these questions: Are you tired of the hassles associated with packing up, hauling, setting up, tearing down and unpacking? Are you fed up with the outrageous fuel costs to tow your camper? Does it bother you to make payments for a camper that sits idle/unused for more than half the year? Would you like to have a profitable exit strategy when the time comes?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then maybe it’s time you considered investing in a log cabin. A log cabin gives you year-round use, all the amenities of home, a permanent place to entertain friends and family or just relax, and it is an appreciating asset.
Say goodbye to the camper and hello to a rustic log cabin. When you’re ready to make the transition, give me a call and I’ll walk you through the camper to log cabin transition. You’ll be glad you did!
 How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin: The easy, natural way using only hand tools and the woods around you List Price: Sale Price: $10.75 You save: $6.20 (37%)  Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product DescriptionThe only step-by-step guide to building log cabins and log furniture—Pioneer style There are other manuals on building cabins, but W. Ben Hunt's is the only one to show you how to build and furnish an authentic pioneer cabin-the easy, natural way, using only hand tools and the woods around you. Our ancestors used logs and hand tools to build durable, dry, windproof, and protective dwellings; and they fashioned chairs, tables, branches, and bushes. In this day of power saws, lumberyards, and high prices, it's good to know that you can build in the same way. How to Build a Log Cabin Part One provides complete directions for building cabins of three sizes: one-room, one-room and lean-to, and three-room. Just follow the clear instructions on every step of construction from choosing the site, clearing the tract, and building the foundation to installing fixtures, heating, and lighting. How to Furnish a Log Cabin If you're not ready to build an entire cabin, you can try your hand at some of the small furnishings such as lamps, fences, and candlesticks. Part Two tells all you need to know to build and finish rustic furniture for an entire home: benches, tables, chairs, beds, cots, shelves, candelabras, gates, arbors, wayside stands, even road signs and birdhouses. "Two Books in One" There are really two books in one here: Building a Log Cabin, published in 1947, and Rustic Construction, published in 1939. These two classics have been reproduced exactly as they first appeared, with the drawings and photographs that W. Ben Hunt selected and produced for the original editions. Features
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 The Rustic Cabin: Design & Architecture List Price: Sale Price: $37.80 You save: $22.20 (37%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product DescriptionWith a focus on architecture and details, rustic expert and author Ralph Kylloe introduces creative rustic designs that are inspiring a revival of cabin craftsmanship in his newest book, Rustic Cabin Renaissance. The book features log homes that are newly built, but that are steeped in regional history as well as the log-building history of the Scandinavian settlers and mountain men from centuries past. Kylloe provides photographic details of the highest-quality workmanship in stone masonry and log work, highlighting the unique blend of fine antiques and contemporary furnishings that these homes exhibit. Arts & Crafts, Scandinavian, and Western legacies in furniture building and interior styling make each room a smorgasbord for the eyes, and a dream come true for lovers of rustic décor. Rustic Cabin Renaissance features homes that are rich in vision, beauty and warmth-photographed as only Ralph Kylloe can photograph them. Ralph Kylloe received his Ed.D. from Boston University and has taught at the university level for many years. He is a leading authority on rustic furniture and owner of the Ralph Kylloe Gallery. He is the author of eleven previous books. |
 Cabin Fever: Rustic Style comes Home List Price: Sale Price: $23.33 You save: $11.67 (33%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product DescriptionA log cabin in the woods is one of America's most cherished icons -- a dream shared around the world. As the stress level of city life rises, more and more of us are imagining our own cottages far away from traffic lights and urban distractions. Cabins in the wilderness have never gone out of style, because the rustic life is a simple, rewarding one rooted in the traditions of the great outdoors. Featuring rustic interiors as well as North Woods architecture, Cabin Fever visits more than two dozen charming retreats old and new, large and small, in the mountains and along the water, from the wilds of New York out to the wild, wild West. Author Rachel Carley explains where our love for the rustic comes from and shows the amazingly varied guises in which it appears today. After serving as settlers' cabins, log homes enjoyed a phenomenal popularity in the late nineteenth century. Wealthy families such as the Vanderbilts, Guggenheims, and Carnegies summered in areas as remote as they could find, building what were euphemistically called camps. Those less affluent, following the era's prescription for fresh air and simplicity, traveled to even more rustic hotels and vacation cabins to get their share of the refreshing woods. Cabin Fever presents some of the best of these old lodges and private cabins, along with striking new homes that give a contemporary twist to the ideal of the rustic life. To help fill a cabin, a whole camp, or even an apartment with the latest in rustic style, the book's catalogue shows where to find home furnishings from twig bedsteads to Hudson Bay blankets to Adirondack chairs. Brimming with exceptionally creative ideas for achieving this truly American look, this enchanting guide to living with the rustic style will cure every variety of cabin fever. The craze for "getting away from it all" in buildings of log, stone, and unpainted lumber has been a part of American life since the 1800s. From the Gilded Age retreats of the Catskills and Adirondacks to the rugged Wild West lodges of Yellowstone and Yosemite, Cabin Fever celebrates the architectural elements that make cabin style unique: gleaming hand-peeled and polished logs, cowhide sofas, and river-rock fireplaces. Some are large, old, and built as public lodgings, like Putnam Camp, the Adirondack summer retreat founded by philosopher William James, which still has the cheerful austerity it had when Freud and Jung mingled there with Harvard academicians. Others, like the grand hunting lodge nestled on the edge of a marsh, are more recent monuments to quirky private visions of the perfect rustic retreat. Rooms in both are accessorized with animal heads, native American blankets and art, snowshoes, antler chandeliers, and willow twig furniture. The book's appendix includes catalog sources for everything from small wooden summerhouses to buffalo-plaid blankets, and a list of hotels in the grand old style (like Yosemite's Ahwahnee and the Grand Canyon's El Tovar). Even if you can't have a piece of the wilderness to call your own (and the burl furniture to match), you can still enjoy the rustic yet substantial comforts of Cabin Fever. Features
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 Log Cabins: Past & Present List Price: Sale Price: $26.00 You save: $8.99 (26%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product DescriptionAn incredible collection of imagery takes you on a tour of old and new log homes, offering restorers and new homebuilders alike a chance to recreate architectural traditions in a home for today's family. There's inspiration for every room inside, as well as the exteriors of structures that are part of time-honored landscapes. Examine details of log finishing and chinking, staircases, windows, doorways, and floors that work together to frame the log home lifestyle. Hundreds of photos make this a priceless reference for planning and furnishing your dream log cabin. Features
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 Cabins and Camps List Price: Sale Price: $37.80 You save: $22.20 (37%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product Description$60.00 hardcover · 1-58685-135-7 · September 10 ¾ x 12 in, 256 pp, 300 Color Photographs, Rights: W, Design Cabins and Camps offers an intimate view of mountain homes and log cabins from New York's Adirondacks to the coast of California. Never before photographed, these rustic retreats aim for the perfect balance between luxurious American home and comfortable isolated getaway. Many of the homeowners are advocates of contemporary rustic artists, and their homes feature handcrafted one-of-a-kind furniture pieces. Cabins and Camps includes a full gallery of extraordinary new rustic creations from a handful of the top rustic artists in America today. This book illustrates just what a little "hideaway" in the mountains can become-a place of natural honesty, refuge, and peace. Ralph Kylloe received his Ed.D. from Boston University and has taught at the university level for many years. He is a leading authority on rustic furniture, and owner of the Ralph Kylloe Gallery at Lake George in New York's Adirondack Mountains. His previous books include Rustic Artistry for the Home, Rustic Traditions, Cabin Collectibles, and Rustic Furniture Makers. |