The log cabin book : a complete builder's guide to small homes and shelters / Oliver Kemp ; illustrations by the author.
"This vintage guide from over a century ago offers timeless, practical advice on building log cabins. Plans and directions for simple structures are easy enough for amateurs to follow. Well-illustrated advice ranges from selecting a site to safe, efficient methods of cutting down trees for building materials to furnishing and decorating interiors"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780486810782
- ISBN: 048681078X
- Physical Description: x, 163 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2016.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "This Dover edition, first published in 2016, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by The Outing Publishing Company, New York, in 1908, under the title and subtitle Wilderness Homes: A Book of the Log Cabin." |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword -- 1. Making plans -- 2. The fireplace -- 3. The ax and the tree -- 4. Building the cabin -- 5. The roof and the floor -- 6. The cabin and its environment -- 7. Inside the cabin -- 8. What it will cost -- 9. Some hunting cabins -- 10. A few plans (Wildwood ; Criow's Nest ; A club house ; The Block House ; Idlewild ; The Jolly Pines ; The Antlers ; Sleepy Hollow ; The Hermitage ; The Rookery) |
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