The Great Cabin Erection!

Pettytyrant101 wrote:{{{ You'll be up to your ears in undead, axe murderers and ancient Indian burial grounds before you know it. }}}

NOW you tell me???

{{{And he wonders why we all carry guns! }}}

This is how your wooden upright makes me feel....      

Beautiful cabins Blue, and Az!

I think drywall, or sheetrock, or gypsum board, does work as an indicator that a cabin is not so much a cabin as small house. A cabin should be wooden, inside and out, and a little rough around the edges with a wood-stove in it.

But then, that's rather cabin-snobbish isn't it? We can't all afford fine wooden interiors in our cabins. What was once the affordable way to build a cabin: out of whatever trees are nearby, is only an option now-a-days for those with specialized knowledge about rustic, do-it-yourself milling: a kind of skill that is unknown to most people. The new affordable is stick-framed out of 2x out of lumber salvaged off a job-site! That's what your common person can handle these days.

Sure, my "small house" will have running water, and electricity, and heating perhaps, and dry-wall inside, and it's secluded but not in the middle of wilderness. Does that mean it doesn't deserve to be called a cabin? I don't think so. I think my stubborn refusal to use nailguns and my insistence on hand-carving the eaves and my having to carry all the materials up through the orchard from the drive-way and the general do-it-by-myself ethos (an ethos of necessity mostly) means that the building is in spirit more of a cabin than any more beautiful, isolated structure that some yahoo with more money than sense over-paid some company to come in and slap together so that said yahoo could have a place to shoot elk from and bang his mistresses during the holidays.

Besides, a proper cabin is erected, that's the important part. It doesn't matter if you use the finest of cedars, or the sturdiest of oak, and build the thing in the middle of the most pristine of forests. There's still no guarantee with all those fancy materials and locations that you're going to end up with a really satisfying erection, and that's exactly what I'm on my way to getting here! So there!

If you built it yourself and it's in the woods, it's definitely a cabin. And though cabins may have an exalted subset of log cabins you've still earned the right to call it a cabin.

I totally agree with you. I could really fill this post with so many double entendre's but, I shall resist & keep my ladylike stance unblemished, {{{ Christ its hard!! }}} Over here in Blighty there's a program turned up on TV called "Timber Kings", its interesting, sort of. Who am I kidding, After you've seen one you've seen them all, same old story

The fascia is up, and I finished the roof just in time for a week of rain. Note: most of the cabin is not yet painted. Also, there will be a door eventually.

i wonder if i have a picture of our round-logged finnish-styled cabin somewhere...?

That is fantastic work Forest !!!

I love this. Apparently this lady is 90 yrs old & enjoys painting

Hey neat Az, I just watched a movie the other night about a Canadian folk painter who lived to be a little old lady in a little old house: covered inside with all her art!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3721954/

Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke are both very good in it.


Norc, I'd say this is the place for it if you do have a picture.

That's looking really good, Forrest! Now if you just wink at some suitable old lady painter you can get everything you want!

Hey Halfwise, your post count is looking pretty 13337.

That looks incredible, Forest! Would love to see some shots of what the interior loft area looks like now if/when you've got some.

Eh, it's the same as before. Plumbing and electrical have to be done before anything else inside is going to change much. I'm not a plumber or an electrician, but I'll get it done eventually.

Thanks Forest, IL look into that film

I added a light outside. I mean, a lamp anyway.



Light housings in the kitchen:



And the living room:



Oh the joys of wiring:



And I've started insulating the loft. It feels good to be moving forward at least.

It's great to see some shots of the interior! Thanks for keeping up posted, Forest.

{{{ I think my barrel is smaller than your erection Forest! }}}

That is coming along beautifully ! Wont be long & you'll be doing a Bilbo

Haha, yeah, hope so. You'll have to give it a fly-by at midnight when it's done.

Looking good Like the outside lamp.

Wait, what's the silvery stuff on the roof before you put in the insulation? Can't be drywall type stuff because that would be used to cover the insulation from below.

halfwise wrote:Wait, what's the silvery stuff on the roof before you put in the insulation? Can't be drywall type stuff because that would be used to cover the insulation from below.

it's rigid foam-board insulation with a vapor barrier against the roof boards. then he's got an airspace to let the roof breath and to run his wires. then the spun fiberglass insulation below. it should be really cozy in that loft at night with a good fire in the stove below!

right forest? nice job!