How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin: The Easy, Natural Way Using Only Hand Tools and the Woods Around You

The way it was done 100 years ago. Great for a hunting camp or to live on the cheap in the woods.This book is NOT going to tell you how to build to code with conduit, etc., but it will teach you how to put up your walls and get the roof overhead....then it's gonna teach you how to make FURNITURE for your new cabin out of the same materials you built the cabin out of...I have read over a dozen books on cabin construction; this is one of the two best books I have read on the subject. I plan on rereading it before building my cabin next spring (land paid off, time to build)....

I bought a 3 pack of log cabin books this is by far the best one. Very well done I love the drawings

If you're thinking of building a rustic cabin, this book more or less gives you all the working knowledge to do it. Since it was written before chainsaws and power drills, much of the work could be done quicker. If you find yourself post-apocalyptically needing to use only amish hand tools, well, you're set. This book also lacks actual blueprints so if you're just putting together a cabin and okay with eyeballing it, you're set. The furniture ideas in the last chapter are all fun projects that anyone could do over a weekend and compliment a home or cabin quite nicely.

This is not a book of blueprints, it is a book that covers ideas and suggestions on how to accomplish building a log cabin. It was fun to read, and informative not a step by step guide to building a cabin.

Great book everyone should have it

You will be amazed at this presentation. I recommend it to any interested in this topic.

My son and I plan to build a rustic "get away" on some mountain land using onsite logs from standing trees. Essentially camping with a more substantial shelter. This book does a better job than any of the other books for our purposes. The other books deserve looked at to "round out" what is available. Don't forget to look over You tube for more info!

Will build my wife a rustic log cabin on our property after retirement and this book has clarified a lot of the questions I had.

Bought this book for my husband who is a retired boat builder and he loved it - we live in Sweden and have a lot of woodland and plan to build a log cabin or two so simple contructions methods using materials close at hand (no electricity) and with only a chainsaw for company is great for us.

The book was not much help to inform details abouthow log cabins are made.If you are planning to build log cabin then look for more books in that field.There are nice ideas about furniture making.

Really cool book if you are going back to nature. Only improvement could be better quality pictures.

Bought for a gift, recipient was pleased.

great book, great illustrations, photos way to dark and difficult to see any detail