![]() One was a hand-made cabinet that we turned into a vanity in the bathroom. There were a few pieces that ‘came with’ the cabin that worked perfectly with my new ideas. You can see the initials of the man I purchased the cabin from poked into the old door (he spent a lot of time in the cabin when he was a child, as his family owned the property it sat on). I love the fact we were able to use some of these items as features in the ‘new’ house. I n the interior of the house, we used the original front door from the old cabin ‘pre-restoration’ as the new bathroom door, and the old homesteader’s single kitchen cupboard as our shoe and boot cabinet on the porch. So I took this all into account and decided to go with a sort of modern country, clean-lined shabby chic sort of look. But as lovely and full of life as logs are, they definitely limit the decor options. I can’t imagine the effort that must have gone into building it. ![]() To think a lone man hand-hewed all of these heavy fir logs himself (and they are HEAVY) is remarkable. To set the stage, or the ‘palette’ of the decor, there was the house itself.īuilt around an 80-plus year old homesteader’s log cabin that we disassembled, reassembled and restored (with the addition of a loft and a lean-to kitchen and bathroom), the cabin is really a marvel of ‘do-it-yourself’ ingenuity. I was up for the challenge and loved the fact that I had so many pieces to work with that had such a rich history. So when we moved into our little cabin in the woods (almost wrote ‘weeds’, but that would be true too!), it was ‘game on’. And for making the best of a few basic pieces. I’m no interior decorator, but I do think I have a pretty good eye for design. So how do you decorate a funky old house – a tiny, 650 square foot log cabin at that – with a great sense of style, and without breaking the bank buying all new furniture? A few pieces made the transition, but most ended up in storage. ![]() For the most part, the furniture just didn’t match the new environment – at all. Then the matching chair didn’t fit either.Īs you can imagine, moving the contents of an urban townhouse into an 80-year old log cabin wasn’t exactly easy. That fact became clear when my big, gorgeous distressed brown leather couch refused to fit through the narrower-than-standard door. Decorating a heritage log cabin in a modern, chic kind of way is challenging, to say the least. ![]()
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