Cabin Porn Update

[LuckyDan]

http://freecabinporn.com/

Thank goodness some else posted this link on WTW sometime prior. If you have not been there lately, or at all, I highly recommend a visit. While I'm not exactly an office worker living in the suburbs I can totally agree with the kudos statement made on page one of of that site.

Now back to cussing my house, fuel prices, pop up fabric replacement costs, (add your own sentiment here).

 

[BSS]

I like that site.

 

[Smokecreek1]

Where do I sign up!


Smoke

 

[Lighthawk]

Very nice. I've considered the the enjoyment and duties of owning a rec property, but wisely defaulted to being a wandering sort without the responsibilities of land ownership. Cool collection of cabins.

 

[DirtyDog]

Great site thanks!

 

[mtn-high]

I have one of those I need to finish...

better yet...maybe yer in the market?

 

[mtn-high]

exterior shot

 

[Overland Hadley]

Very nice. I've considered the the enjoyment and duties of owning a rec property, but wisely defaulted to being a wandering sort without the responsibilities of land ownership. Cool collection of cabins.


Some of us live in a small cabin in the woods full time, for better and worse.

 

[ski3pin]

I have one of those I need to finish...

better yet...maybe yer in the market?


mtn-high, looks like just the right size for a cabin and Leadville is a great spot. Very nice!

 

[biugueits]

Amazing! Nice collection. So, I could post a picture of our cabin... now we just have to wait for the submission of the moderators.

 

[mtn-high]

Some of us live in a small cabin in the woods full time, for better and worse.


Lucky you.

Gonna take a few years to make it happen....but we're seriously considering selling >everything< and downsizing to some small acreage and a yurt....

http://www.coloradoyurt.com/

If it works out ideally...5 couples will buy a ranch...split it into 5 homesites and then dedicate the rest of the land to a perpetual open space easement.
Communal infrastructure and gardens....seperate homes.....friends helping friends...

if that plan doesn't work out...we'll go solo and still end up with the same thing...just on a smaller scale.

"got to get back to the land and set my soul free...."

damn hippies....

 

[sdmarkus]

Wow, cool site!

Check this guys DIY build, pretty inspiring stuff...

 

[Gormley Green]

Awesome site, and funny enough my cousins cabin in Girdwood, AK is on there!

http://freecabinporn.com/post/16359912977/mossy-log-cabin-in-girdwood-alaska-photo-by

 

[Overland Hadley]

Lucky you.

Well, yeah. It would be nice to be able to afford a ''real'' house, but until then....

 

[highz]

Very nice. I've considered the the enjoyment and duties of owning a rec property, but wisely defaulted to being a wandering sort without the responsibilities of land ownership. Cool collection of cabins.


I'm in your camp, Lighthawk. But, if my full-time home weren't next to National Forest I might feel differently. As it is, I've seen too many people come in, build log homes that they visit a few weeks per year, turn rural areas to suburban areas and destroy habitat. The area I live in has twice as many homes now as a decade ago. Many vacation homes are now vacant and for sale because of the economy. I like to tell folks to get one of those while prices are down rather than build a cabin and eat up more open space. That's what I did, and the cost of doing some remodeling still added up to less than building a new home. I do have nearby neighbors, but most are only here on occasional weekends and vacations. Almost everyone around here started out visiting their vacation homes every weekend to start, then once a month, then a few times a year... Kind of a waste, IMHO.

I did buy some more remote property which at one time I thought I would put a tiny cabin on. I've changed my mind on that. Why build a tiny cabin when I have my FWC? I plan to keep the land wild.

But, I enjoy the cabin pics, too.

 

[Argonaut20]

It always sounds soooo good to have a get away in the mountains. Then inertia takes over. It can also be a matter of not IF it will burn, but WHEN will it burn. I agree with you highz, it would be better to leave the wild lands wild rather than build something that will be, for all intents and purposes, abandoned after a short time.

 

[mtn-high]

FWIW....

Where our cabin is located was an inholding in the USFS that was subdivided in the early 70's....

before that it was logged...and then mined. Hardly "wild land"...but I get the jist of what you are saying.

the same can be said about all of the campgrounds intruding on and into these "wild areas"....and the roads cut to get there...and the air that is polluted to do so as folks trapse from place to place bringing their impacts with them into the wild.

as humans, it really depends on what WE like to do that makes it "right"....or makes what we do >seem> less of an impact than someone else's impact.

jus' sayin'...