The Adirondack Cabin highlights what makes an Adironack Camp (e.g. cabin, lodge), unique and spectacular.

• Beautiful Photos and text cover  traditional siding choices
• Heavy Timber Construction Methods
• Classic Log elements and accents

Obamsawin also includes such elements as porches, sun rooms, fireplaces, trusses, out-door showers, furnishings, and twigh art.

Also covered are what makes "good design"...along with sketches and floor plans of 10 classic Adirondack style cabins.

Hardbound / 128 Pages.

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The Adirondack Cabin

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The Arts & Crafts Cabin

Rachel Carley holds a Master's Degree in Historic Preservation and puts her knowledge to good use in this book. Featuring rustic interiors as well as North Woods architecture. Illustrates components of the rustic style-chinked logs, stone fireplaces, sinuous stairways, birch-bark accessories, Adirondack chairs, Native American rugs, Arts and Crafts furniture, and motifs from fishing lures to cowboy paraphernalia.  Cabin Fever visits more than two dozen charming retreats old and new, large and small.. . . .explains where our love for the rustic comes from and shows the amazingly varied guises in which it appears today. 
Hardcover / 208 Pages.

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Cabin Fever

$35.00

Starting with a discussion of the development of the Ranch Style and progressing into sections discussing the furnishing and decor of various rooms in the home. Featured are many fine artists and craft people along with magnificent photos of their work. Great source directory in the back. Chase Reynolds Ewald is a Graduate of the School of Journalism at U.C. Berkley. 
This is her fourth book evoking the feel of the West in the Arts and Crafts.       
Hardbound / 160 Pages.

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Cowboy Chic

From authentic Thomas Molesworth collectibles to new western furnishings. .  . solid and fanciful designs of furniture makers who are leading today's western revival.  Features many of today's leading furniture and accessory makers with photos of their work. If you're looking for original furniture designs to complement your log or timber-frame home look no further than this book.                  
Softbound / 176 Pages.

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Cowboy High Style

A stunning book showcasing lodges such as Timberline Lodge, Glacier Park, The Ahwahnee and Old Faithful Inn. 16 lodges total. Beautiful color and historic photographs of the lodges and the National Parks themselves. . In addition to the magnificent photographs is a history of  how the lodges and the parks came into being. This book comes shrink wrapped.   
Hardbound 192 Pages.

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Great Lodges of the National Parks

$35.00

• Designing small houses that seem big
• Estimating and controlling costs
• Incorporating ergonomics and accessibility
• Doing drawings and scale models
• Making contracts that work.

When a book is this good it's difficult to explain just how important it is to your knowledge of how to build sensibly, how to draw plans simply, how to position your home to the site conditions and so much more. Sam Clark is a builder who has worked with owner-builders since the 1960's. His previous books have helped thousands of people manage their building projects.

Softbound / 522 Pages.

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Independent Builder

• The Allure of Big Wood
• The Hewn Log House
• The Long Log House
• Off the Beaten Track
• The Log Cottages of Lac Echo
• Living with Logs

Christopher & Skinulis lead you on a photographic journey of the many faces of log homes including Post and Beam, Dovetail, Chinked, Scribe-fit, Traditional and Modern. Along the way their intent is to inspire you to build, restore, buy your own log home.

Softbound / 118 Pages.

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Log Houses-Classics of the North

Rich with photographs of wood cabins, (mostly log), either reclaimed or made from various selections of recycled wood, this book guides you to making that homestead building your own. How to blend some old, some new. . . to make the rooms, and the home itself ring with spirit, surprise, beauty, personality and style. A good book for those searching for ideas for achieving the dream homestead on an affordable budget. 
Hardcover / 129 Pages.

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Old Wood New Home

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man. . . to roam a wilderness. . . to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log cabin. . . to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available. . . to be not at odds with the world, but content with one's own thoughts and company. . .this is One Man's Wilderness. 

Great book, magnificent pictures. From the sod and moss roof, to the hand-made wooden hinges, all done with hand (non-power), tools. . . this book is an inspiration. 
Softbound / 223 Pages.

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One Man's Wilderness

Patterns from the Golden Age of Rustic Design (Softbound Version)

reprint of the 1938 National Park Service
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), Albert Good

This is 3 books reprinted as one.
Details and chronicles:

• Lodges
• Out buildings
• Bridges
• Furniture
• Sign boards 
• and many more of the National Parks' structures of that era. 

Structures  were heavy to log and stone. 
Lots of pictures, sketches, plans.
Log builders, designers, architects and contractors will find this a great book. 
The 3 volumes are bound as one for a 600 page behemoth
This is truly a one of a kind book. 

Includes lots of basic floor plans for many of the lodges, residences, cabins and outbuildings that you'll find in our National Forests.

The difference between the Hardbound and the Softbound are primarily different publishers of the same book. We've heard the photo quality in the softbound is slightly reduced (we didn't have a Hardbound available at the time this was written), however the sketches and text are plenty good...remember the photos were taken in the 30's so all black and white.

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Parks and Recreation Structures

Hardbound

$85.00
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Patterns from the Golden Age of Rustic Design

Softbound

$29.95

15 log home plans for creating a modest  log home or weekend cottage. Whether you're dreaming of a starter log home or a lifelong log cabin retreat, "Small Log Homes" is an indispensable idea book for planning, building and outfitting your log cabin in the woods, or on the prairie. 
Lush photographs show how log home owners, log home builders, and contractors around the country have achieved the richness and warmth of cabin living within the bounds of economy and space management. 
Robbin Obomsawin is the construction manager and general contractor for Beaver Creek Log Homes. She has served many terms as the vice-president of the American/Canadian Log Builders Association. (Now called the International Log Builders Association). Her plans have been featured in many log home publications.
Hardbound / 87 Pages.

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Small Log Homes

Almost every man (women are saner) dreams, at least once in his life, of getting away from it all, deep into the woods, and going it alone. Expert tracker and woodsman Len McDougall shows us the way in The Log Cabin, an extraordinary blend of how-to manual and memoir of resilience that will surely fascinate, perhaps repel, and maybe even inspire the reader to take a chance on a little more self-reliance-if not in the woods, then in everyday living.
Like a rougher modern-day Thoreau in less bucolic surrounds, Len McDougall takes the path of solitude, marching to his own drummer, and finds himself, like Thoreau, at once in awe of the phenomena of nature-large and small-and ever more aware of his essential separation from nature and from civilization.

Len McDougall has written several books and dozens of articles on topics relating to the outdoors. Len teaches outdoor survival and has more than 30 years experience in the North Woods. Len is also a professional photographer and illustrator.

Hardbound / 189 Pages.

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The Log Cabin

Thirty fabulous Log Home Plans. The favorites of builders and designers, selected from across the United States. More than just renderings, each floor plan is illustrated with beautiful color photographs. Weaving pictures and plans together are valuable information, advice, and planning tips from the people who design and build log homes.  
Softbound / 128 Pages.

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The Log Home Plan Book

$24.95

Allan Mackie's newest book. Allan Mackie believes - and demonstrates in this book - that attitude is at least as important as carpentry skills. Given a will to learn and a desire to make something of one's own, the average person is more than capable of building a log house that will serve an individual, couple, or family for years to come. 
Hundreds of photographs and detailed drawings take the reader step by step through the log home building process: 

• Selecting the land
• Purchasing and preparing the logs
• And all the other steps involved.

This is so much more than a how-to book that we have included it here.
Softbound / 232 Pages.

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The Owner-Built Log House