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CABIN LIVING ii CABIN LIVING CABIN LIVING DI S C O V E R I N G T H E S I M P L E A M E R I C A N G E T A W A Y The Editors of Cabin Living Magazine Guilford, Connecticut An imprint of Globe Pequot Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK Copyright © 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publish- er, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Title: Cabin living : discovering the simple American getaway / the editors of Cabin Living. Description: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2017. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. Identifers: LCCN 2017016649 (print) | LCCN 2017018442 (ebook) | ISBN 9781493030446 (e-book) | ISBN 9781493030439 (pbk.) Subjects: LCSH: Vacation homes—United States. | Log cabins—United States. Classifcation: LCC NA7574 (ebook) | LCC NA7574 .C323 2017 (print) | DDC 728.7/30973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017016649 Te paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992. Printed in the United States of America T O T H E L O Y A L , L O N G T I M E S U B S C R I B E R S T O C A B I N L I F E / C A B I N L I V I N G M A G A Z I N E : Thank you for letting us into your special world. It has been our honor and pleasure to serve you over the past seventeen years. Here’s to many more! C O N T E N T S Introduction by Mark R. Johnson 1 Acknowledgments 3 The Dream Cabin 4 Heaven Has a Dock, Manitowish Chain O’ Lakes, Wisconsin 7 A Cabin Built for Relaxation, Three Rivers, Michigan 15 Hillside Heaven, Near Black Mountain, North Carolina 23 Blending Vintage and New, Lake Fairlee, Vermont 31 The Waiting Game, Lake Five, Montana 39 A Boyhood Dream Comes True, Whitefsh, Montana 47 The Outdoorsy Cabin 54 Barnwood Beauty, Leech Lake, Minnesota 57 Summer Camp Revisited, Norris Lake, Tennessee 65 Floating Cabin, Norris Lake, Tennessee 73 An Outdoorsy Little River Cabin, Haw River, North Carolina 81 A Cabin Designed for Prime Views, Lake Fairlee, Vermont 89 The Cozy Cabin 96 From Something Old to Something New, Goodrich Lake, Minnesota 99 The Afordable Cabin, Ely, Minnesota 107 Cozy Meets Rustic, Douglas Lake, Tennessee 115 What More Do You Need? Northwest Montana 123 Cozy Mountain Cabin, Kalispell, Montana 131 Think Small, Port Orchard, Washington 139 The Remodeled Cabin 146 A Comfy Northwoods Getaway, Woman Lake, Minnesota 149 Surfside Cottage, Nantucket, Massachusetts 157 Welcome Back, Gunnison River, Colorado 165 DIY Cabin Remodel, Bigfork, Montana 173 Cabin in the Hills, Los Padres National Forest, Southern California 181 A Rustic Cabin Gets a Dramatic Update, Santa Rosa, California 189 The Legacy Cabin 196 Dream Realized: Retiring on the Lake, Waupaca, Wisconsin 199 Renovating a Northwoods Family Treasure, O’Brien Lake, Minnesota 207 Twenty-Five Years in the Making, Kimball Lake, Minnesota 215 A Creekside Cabin for the Ages, Western North Carolina 223 Rebuilding a Pioneer Cabin, Gulf of Maine 231 A Little Cabin Soars with Incredible Views, Swan Lake, Montana 239 Family Afair, Donner Lake, California 247 Credits 254 vii viii CABIN LIVING I N T R O D U C T I O N “I’D RATHER BE AT THE CABIN.” Tat simple statement—which we frst printed on bumper stickers sixteen years ago in the early days of Cabin Life/Cabin Living magazine—says it all. To this day, the bumper sticker has been wildly successful. Of course it has, because it perfectly sums up the passion America has for the cabin retreat lifestyle. For those times when you can’t be at the cabin, you can get your “get- away-from-it-all” fx with this book. If you don’t own a cabin yet, but you’re dreaming of buying or building someday, this book’s stories are an inspiring, resounding state- ment that achieving the dream is possible! For many today, getting away from it all by escaping to a cabin is part of the great American dream. Cabin living is, indeed, foundational to the American way of life in terms of history, architecture and family culture. Starting in the eighteenth century, when Scandinavian and Scotch-Irish settlers built homes in America, a simple log cabin was often the structure of choice. Te story on page 231, “Rebuilding a Pioneer Cabin,” actually centers on such a cabin. A strong case can be made that the cabin is America’s vernacular architecture. And the simple log cabin is the stuf of American legend and lore, the most iconic story being that of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born in a log cabin on his father’s Kentucky farm. When you imagine a young Abe Lincoln, your mind picture is probably of him next to a wood pile, axe in hand, in front of the family cabin. At some point in American history, the notion of a “cabin” evolved into something other than a rustic home, as the idea of a getaway retreat was born. Wealthy city dwell- ers wanted a place in the country they could escape to, leaving the summer heat of the city behind. Some of the most notable and architecturally signifcant retreats were the early-nineteenth-century Great Camps in the Adirondacks, owned by families with names like Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. Eventually, the dream of a getaway retreat became accessible to the masses. Even my grandfather Art, the son of Danish immigrants who grew up during the Great Depression and achieved only an eighth-grade education, was able to buy a small lake cottage in northern Minnesota in the late 1950s. As the getaway dream fourished for families across America, people called their places by diferent names, and this is still

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