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A log cabin in a suitable setting takes on naturally, 
by its color and texture, an architectural camouflage 
BACK to the LOG CABIN 
{Continued ]rom page 110) 
By the bye—I’m starting a movement 
here in Minnesota to have the build¬ 
ings upon our automobile tourist camps 
built of logs. Speak a good word for 
it where it may be heard, old boy— 
we’ve certainly got enough filling sta¬ 
tion architecture in the country to em¬ 
phasize sufficiently the influence of 
Spain and pagoda period. 
How do I know “how big a house 
you need”? You’re the doctor. There’s 
only one safe rule to follow in deciding 
that: you will need exactly one half 
of what you think you need. So, put 
down your six room needs and I’ll 
sketch you out a notion for three. 
Personally, we decided on the unit plan 
—all one room cabins. This gives 
guests—or members of the family—an 
equal responsibility in the care of the 
household. (The actual reason for this 
decision, however, was that our first 
guest snored so loudly that we couldn’t 
sleep.) Our guest cabin at Trailsyde 
is equipped with all necessaries to camp 
life—cook stove, dishes, and all the 
implements of life’s warfare—and we 
find that the average person whom one 
really wants as a companion in the 
wilds, perfers to do or die for himself. 
This is the first thing to be decided 
upon. And remember that two cabins 
are almost as cheap as one—of the 
combined size and several extra corners. 
Unless you are going to have a deal 
more help than the average forest 
neighborhood affords, you will not 
want to mess about with very long logs 
—even if they are procurable. Sixteen 
to twenty feet is a manageable length. 
This means you can have a cabin 
room inside, of eighteen by fourteen 
rectangular—or a less attractive square 
room of eighteen eaeh way. You are 
not likely to want to eut this up into 
a city kitchenette apartment—so your 
rooms need be added on, if you decide 
against the unit plan. 
You note that I take it for granted 
you prefer the logs laid horizontally. If 
you have only a small second growth 
timber in your neighborhood, however, 
you may have to choose the stockade 
type of log building willy-nilly. To 
show you a very satisfactory example 
of large logs so placed, I’m sending 
along a picture of an architect’s cabin 
at Pal’s Cove built stockade fashion. 
There are a lot of possibilities in this 
construction and he has had a mint 
of fun doing things in both form and 
color. The result is a most unique and 
highly artistic woodland home. 
Bear in mind the fact that your logs 
are bound to shrink and while in the 
horizontal placing they press down 
upon one another, if well fitted in the 
first place, thus adjusting the spaces 
by their own weight to a great degree, 
in the upright position they pull away 
from each other, necessitating more fre¬ 
quent recalking. Moreover, instead of i 
a necessary evil, the saddle and notch . 
corners of your horizontal logs add 
distinction and beauty to the cabin in 
our eyes. The flieker of firelight upon 
the mellow toned timbers with their 
varied shadings—and without, the 
rough-hewn, axe-marked log ends 
thrusting out from your walls at dif¬ 
ferent lengths . . . it’s great, old man! 
When you ask me what kind of logs 
you need, I counter with the ancient 
wheeze of the spinster in front of the 
stamp-window: “What kinds have 
you ?” 
Assuming that by “evergreen” you 
include all the various pines, spruce and 
balsam, let’s proceed to utilize the bal¬ 
sam for two reasons, first because it is 
less valuable than the pine or spruce 
in your landscape, and second it will 
“stay put”. Spruce twists and warps. 
As our Norwegian neighbors say, “It 
gets crooky”, although it has greater 
supporting strength and we utilize 
spruce for our roof beams. Hemlock 
is too hard to work upon, as is birch. 
Seven and eight inch diameter logs 
have been used in the cabins I’m show¬ 
ing you—the butt end of the log being 
about twelve or thirteen. Remember 
these logs have to be manhandled, so 
don’t become too ambitious as to size. 
Moreover, proportion plays the chief 
part in the beauty of a cabin. The sill 
logs, of course, will be your heaviest 
timbers, and when placed on your 
foundation rocks, make sure that the 
projecting ends as well as the rest of 
the length is above the soil. But that 
will come later when you are all ready 
for your dream to materialize. 
As to the materials whieh will have 
to be imported, again that depends on 
your surroundings. Perhaps your 
village or backwoods blacksmith can 
fashion your hinges, latches and fire¬ 
place cranes. Possibly you must needs 
have these sent in from eivilization. 
It’s reasonably sure that you can ar¬ 
range satisfactorily for your rough 
lumber at a country saw mill—possibly 
your matched flooring—and equally 
sure that you will have to order your 
roofing and the cement for your fire- 
plaee outside. Window frames can be 
dressed out from rough lumber on 
your “job”—but your glazed sash will 
come from that hinterland known in 
immigrant parlance as “th’ cit-tee”. In 
this—here’s a tip: small paned case¬ 
ment window’s are cheaper and a mil¬ 
lion times more picturesque than the 
common garden variety of w'indow. 
Another suggestion I hesitate to 
make, for it sounds unsportsmanlike. 
Here goes for the truth, however— 
not only did I import a damper (which 
I made haste to conceal in my chim¬ 
ney) but I lined the fireplaee with fire- 
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