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.
