Simple cabin in the woods.
A traditional log house in a wooded lot serves as a family retreat. The compact footprint contains a vaulted great room, kitchen, dining, and bath on the first floor with a sleeping loft overlooking the great room. The basement houses a bunkroom and recreation space with a walkout on the southern exposure.
The clients’ goal was to capture the essence of one of America’s earliest building types while maintaining comfort. Honest form and function drove the design of the cabin – and the result is an archetypal image of vernacular construction with modern sensibilities. Materials are natural wood logs, stone and concrete, with a metal roof.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Thoreau
