August, 1923 
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The cabin fireplace of "Seven Glens”, 
which is seen in its setting in one of 
the illustrations of the scale model 
the average woodsman does—cutting the 
Avindows and doors through the logs after 
they are in place. You can see for your¬ 
self how it is possible to utilize shorter and 
more manageable logs in the former 
method. 
However, it is unwise to cut into your 
highest wall log—your plate log—to ac¬ 
commodate your frames. Try to have one 
full, uncut log carrying across above your 
highest opening in order to make firm your 
support and tie the walls together 
staunchly. 
Your gable ends are then spiked on up 
to the required height. Establishing the 
pitch of your roof, cut your gable logs to 
this. The ridge log is cut into the peak 
and the purlins into the slanting ends and 
all are well spiked into place. The top 
wall logs, the ridge, and the purlins must 
be enough longer than the walls to carry 
the projection of your roof at each end. 
Then cut in your rafters at intervals of 
not more than 3^' and lay on your roof 
boarding. 
The logs carrying your porch roof are 
best built into your walls if the design 
admits of it, thus making the porch an in¬ 
tegral part of the building instead of being 
clapped on afterward—and looking the 
part. 
Your fireplace can l)e made a veritable 
bulwark of strength to your building by 
proceeding with the masonry as your par¬ 
titions ascend, tying your logs right into 
the rock and mortar structure. 
If you are utilizing any of the composi¬ 
This is the manner of notching the logs at 
the corners — an. essential of construction 
The operation of calking the logs, in 
which all hands can assist, is another 
essential in the making of a log cabin 
Above this cabin fireplace are rough log 
slabs, and below the cross-tie log, a bit 
of quaintly crude carving for decoration 
tion roofings, this should be unrolled, cut 
to fit, and left to stretch in the sun before 
nailing down unless you desire a ruffled 
effect atop your cabin. Needless to say, 
this roofing must be well-nailed and well- 
pitched where it laps. Remember that 
pitch and nails come inside the roofing- 
rolls. 
Now a matter which is often a bone of 
contention amongst cabin-builders is wheth¬ 
er or no there shall be skylights. We 
are all for them and many a one who has 
seen the cheeriness of our cabins in the 
woods as against the gloominess of the 
average woods house has gone back and 
cut a hole in his own roof. Particularly 
in the room used as a kitchen is a skylight 
a boon and on a stormy day the living 
room will be a lot more attractive with a 
bit of light filtering in from overhead. A 
curtain can be arranged, if need be, to 
obscure or tint the light upon days of bril¬ 
liancy—l)ut I assume that you are not erect¬ 
ing your woodland home in a blistering 
spot an}'how. 
In building the skylight, the frame of it 
should be several inches above roof level 
and adequate flashings provided about it to 
prevent seepage of rain or melting snows. 
'Fhe fireplace chimney, of course, must have 
flashings at the roofline for the same rea¬ 
sons. These may be of tin or roofing—our 
own being all that they should be though 
originally discovered in old tin cans about 
the can dump. Hammered out and painted, 
this salvage has kept us perfectly dry. 
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