Excellent Books About Cabins and Cottages

I was able to find two very good books about cabins and cottages. One is very utilitarian. It is a collection of resources, plans, etc. It shows sample floor plans for cabins, cottages, barns, stables, garages and garden sheds. The book also tells you how to get the plans.

The other book is completely different. It is loaded with incredible color photographs of dream exteriors and interiors of cabins and cottages from all across North America. If I were getting ready to build a cabin, I would purchase both of these books immediately.

The Backroad Home By: Donald J. Berg

This is a delightful paperback book that shows you a multitude of cabin and cottage floor plans and exterior 3D views. You can quickly see what a cabin looks like and also see the different floor plan possibilities. This book is worth twice or three times the purchase price. It has hundreds of sources in it for all sorts of rural and country building materials. This is a must have book in my opinion.

The New Cottage Home By: Jim Tolpin - Publisher: the Taunton Press

Combine this book with Donald Berg's book and a winning lottery ticket or your aunt's inheritance and you will be able to build a cabin or cottage that all within 100 miles will drool over. The color photos in this book will take your breath away! I guarantee you that you will borrow ideas from many of the photos!

The Cabin-Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway By: Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Davis. Taunton Press, reprint 2003.

From the publisher: Cabins are simple, sometimes primitive structures, but the heart of each cabin - a treasury of feelings, sensations, and memories of family and friends - makes them special. The Cabin presents 37 inspiring examples, showing how people are building, reclaiming, transforming, or buying this basic form of American residential architecture for a chance at the good life. The book includes 248 color photos and 50 color illustrations, site plans, floor plans, and covers the four basic styles: rustic, traditional, transformed, and modern. In the process it celebrates the possibilities and pleasures of cabins as both shelter and a way of life.