Customer Reviews

Cabin Fever: Rustic Style comes Home

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This is a fine book if your taste in rustic dwellings tends toward the grand lodge. Because I prefer the modest true cabin over the ostentatious second home, my choice is a recent book titled "The Cabin" which focuses on structures of 1200 square feet or less.

CABIN FEVER HELPED US IN REMODELING A 1930'S CABIN IN THE HILL COUNTRY OF TEXAS. THERE ARE UNLIMITED IDEAS IN THISONE BOOK. WE WISH WE COULD USE THEM ALL!!! WE'VE EVEN ORDERED ONE FOR OUR BUILDER TO KEEP, HE'S USED OURS SO MUCH.THIS IS A MUST-HAVE BOOK, EVEN IF JUST FOR THE COFFEE TABLE.

I have been searching for books for months now that would give me real life examples of cabin type homes to use in designing my country home. While there are a lot of books out there on small cabins, I was looking for a book that showed examples that I could incorporate into a larger home. This book is exactly what I was looking for! The photographs are beautiful and truly capture some of the key elements that make these homes special. The author has managed to find some of the best examples out there of truly beautiful, well designed log/natural material homes.

In addition to the photographs, the narative is also quite entertaining. It helps the reader understand some of the thinking that went into the creation of these great spaces.

If you are looking for a very enjoyable book with wonderful pictures of a vast collection of cabins (both small and large), then this is the book you have been looking for! I know it was for me; I already have dozens of ideas that I plan on incorporating into my, not so small, cabin. Enjoy!

One of the best I have purchased in this genre. Inspiring,educational and entertaining. Beautiful photography and excellent, detailed descriptions of adirondack/cabin/log/lodge style properties. Gave a copy to a relative building a Montana lodge style home who found it the most useful of all the books she had read! Highly recommend! One you will want in your library.

Fun and inspirational book. If, however, you love the away-from-it-all look and want to decorate that way in your present home, wherever it is and whatever its style, do take a look at a decorating book called Cottage Style.

I strongly recommend anyone who has any interest at all in having their home resemble a lodge, cabin, north woods style to grab this book. I open this and look at the color photos constantly and share it with my friends. Tons of ideas!

I have salivated over this book for several years and finally bought it. It has great photos of log homes all over America, from the northeast to the southwest. Some are quite famous examples of camps from the early 1900s, say, in the Adirondacks or New England. Others are quite new. I not only liked the way they were presented and photographed, all in color, but also enjoyed the text describing when each cabin was built, who built it and so on. It was also very interesting to see the way each cabin was decorated, some with very beautiful artifacts, others quite utilitarian, but each with its own charm. It is delightful to browse through the text and photos every now and then just for fun and inspiration. I plan to display it next to a little model of a log cabin I have. If you love log cabins you will enjoy this book and find it very interesting. A great book for the family cabin or lodge, or for those who have always wished for a log cabin like me!

This book is the stuff dreams are made of....I want to run away from it all with the man of my dreams and live in one of these wonderful cabins.
~BIG SIGH~
The color photography is rich...and the variety and originality of each abode invokes feelings of coming home safe and snug.

Thanks to a previous reviewer, M. Pass, I bought this and also bought a book called Second Home. Both are great. This Cabin Fever book is limited to homes that are a bit more rustic than what we had in mind, but we still love it. Second Home also is a gorgeous dream book but it has a wider variety of home and decorating styles. Second Home also has given us a lot of information on how to shop for a retreat, how to decide what location is best for us, as well as tips on decorating and building. Second Home approaches the topic from a broader perspective.

This book is a great coffee table book . The pictures are amazing. I bought it for a few of my friends , they loved it also.