Category Archives: Cabin Porn

Happy Week Before Christmas!

Things have been crazy at work the past few weeks, please please pardon me for my silence! I hate being away from the Cabinologist, and have some serious holiday catching-up to do!

Just saw this Wisconsin cabin at freecabinporn.com, and had to share:

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They’re calling for snow in Chicago tomorrow night, hope you all are someplace cozy!

The Bluegrass Valley is Calling

Here’s the latest property that requires sharing:

It’s been on the market for a while now, and I keep coming back to it to admire. My first inclination was that it is too large for a cabin, and while a part of me still feels that way, another part tugs at my mind imagining a cabin camp full of my favorite people–close family and friends–spending long, relaxing days outside and late nights full of bonfires, laughter and stories.

Located in the Bluegrass Valley of Highland County, VA, this cabinhome is made from two old log cabins, one dating from 1750, the other from the early 1800s, and has four bedrooms, two sitting rooms, a large dining and kitchen as well as a barn with electricity and 1500 square feet of porch (!) on 75 acres of farmland that includes pear and apple trees, sugar maples, and a natural spring, this partially furnished fantasy can be yours for $665,000, maybe less considering the property has been listed for some time.

If you do make it your someplace cozy, I’d love to stop by and sit for a spell.

View the property here and here.

 

Cabin Porn: Lower Meadow, VA

Here’s the latest cabin I’m drooling over, and, alas, missed the acquisition opportunity–its already sold!

A two-story 19th century quarter-logged cabin with giant hearth and lots of tiny paned windows located in Bolar, Virginia’s Lower Meadow. Situated on 54 acres of wooded meadow, only one building can be seen from the property, owing in part to its access to National Forest land.

After discovering this gem, I had a heart-to-heart with my husband about a cabin needing to be in the five-year plan…and I surprised myself by actually getting him to agree that it should be a high-priority goal (so far its in my top three with traveling and getting a real job with benefits).

Cabin Getaway: St. Veit, Carinthia, Austria

Anyone up for a rustic vacation in Carinthia? I could really use a getaway…

This Austrian mountain-lakeside abode features wonderful, whimsically rustic interiors, grand mountain vistas, adult books (yes), bicycles, a hot tub, vegetable garden, llamas, and much more (as if there was more to be desired). Rent all this for just $728/week!

See you in Carinthia.

Those shutters! that over-sized roof hat! (and llamas!!)

Ridiculously cute fortune cookie pillows!

A private alpine lake for skinny dipping!

The closest nod to civilization is three kilometers away–a pub called Gurk.

The next closest amenity is a ski slope, Flattnitz Hochrindl, at a distance of 15k.

Sounds like paradise.

DIY Cabin in the Woods?

Is it terribly irresponsible of my husband and I to be hatching a plan to buy and build a cabin before we have a house or a 401K? Maybe. Probably Yes. However, we do believe that we will be metropolitan center dwellers for many years to come, which, our career paths not laid with golden bricks, will necessarily involve remaining apartment-renters for a long while yet. Before you judge us as irresponsible dreamers, you should probably know that as long as what you want from a cabin is truly a rustic natural getaway, this can be had for remarkably less than you might guess. My personal tastes do run a bit high; I would love to find a squared-log frontier cabin circa 1790 (see the mountain listing near Bald Knob for just $1.1M), but there are some really beautiful modern (and green) designs out there that get the rustic-union-with-the-land thing just right. I really like the modern lines and extreme simplicity of this structure. It works beautifully in the forest setting amidst the tall trees.

via Sunset magazine

This Oregon couple managed to buy and build this cabin for $57,000 including a small wilderness parcel of land.  This little abode, the Signal Shed, is off the grid with views of Wallowa Lake six hours northeast of Portland. Mariah Morrow and Ryan Lingard designed the building to be a simple one-room outpost nearby Forest Service trails and surrounded by wilderness; perfect to hike and bike in summer and snowshoe or cross-country ski in winter.  The cabin features an 8-foot tall barn door that slides open onto a porch, creating additional living space. The structure cost them just $10,000! Mind you, Ryan happens to have a background in architecture. I do love to swing a hammer and use a table saw, but this project might require some schooling (and a posse of handy & constructive friends and family)…

They sell plans for the cabin for $1000 or a prefab version for $18,000. See the plans at Signal-Shed.

Here’s how they did it:

color images by Thomas J. Story for Sunset

So, if we follow this couple’s lead, we’ll be driving the dirt county roads out to our cabin from our rental apartment in the city before too long! Little DIY Cabin, here we come!

More Cabin Porn

Its Friday, and for me, that always means time for a well-earned respite at week’s end.

Queue the Cabin Porn.

I’ll leave you with this beauty of a property, 51 rolling acres just below Bald Knob with views all the way to Virginia’s Peaks of Otter is currently available to the lucky reader in possession of 1.1. The property includes a turn-key reconstructed cabin dating from 1790 and a modern addition that is really very well done, even if a little too new. Complete with an outdoor shower and wrap-around porches, items on my future-cabin essentials list!

Located in the Allegheny Highlands of Bath County, Virginia, (where we were married last summer) I’m planning on making an appointment as a ‘prospective buyer’ in October if it’s still available when we’re in the area for Washington & Lee’s Homecoming…

Want to make an appointment?

You can view the property at Virginia Hot Springs Realty or Clarkson & Wallace.