"Clear, practical book ... full-color photos help do-it-yourselfers realize their dreams." -- Log Homes Illustrated The best-selling Cabins is back in print, at the same great value of its original price. This authoritative how-to title gives readers all the information they need to build their own cabin, including: A useful list of essential questions to consider during the planning process - Types of cabin construction, such as pole built, stick built, post and beam, stone, cordwood, wood siding, and the advantages of each - Site preparation, foundations, windows and doors, ladders and stairs, insulation, roofing, electricity, water systems and heating - Essential information on log cabins - Cabin designs and their advantages - Furnishings and accessories Construction methods are clearly illustrated in meticulous line drawings and precise plans with measurements. Cut-away cross-sections and exploded diagrams give the builder the true perspective and detail needed to obtain the best result, allowing readers to get the most enjoyment out of their newly built wilderness retreat. Cabins have come a long way from the 19th-century rustic structures familiar to all school children. The Stileses, a husband-and-wife team who have collaborated on a number of woodworking titles, show how to build a cabin that reflects the builder's lifestyle; some are simple, while others contain multiple rooms and utilities. Although the authors make it look easy, the amount of work that goes into a log cabin is staggering (even small cabins require 60 or more logs that each take five to seven hours to hew by hand). Other designs include a Japanese moon-gazing cabin, a pyramid-shaped cabin, and an A-frame cabin. A section on cabin accessories (including brief construction hints for rustic wood furniture) and a list of sources (including web addresses) completes this title. It should be part of in-depth public library collections. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Stiles ... show how to build a cabin that reflects the builder's lifestyle. ― Library Journal Published On: 2001-09-01 If you've ever thought of building a little retreat somewhere ... you will probably enjoy this book ... Cabins is geared to the modern homebuilder -- homes have to meet modern building codes, after all -- and examines a variety of building techniques. ― New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal Published On: 2001-05-26 You'll find not only the practical issues ... but also the inspiration to help select the cabin that is perfect. -- Kandis Carper ― Spokane Spokesman-Review Published On: 2001-05-25 An invaluable resource ... step-by-step instructions starting with basic planning. -- Stacie Gentile ― Calgary Sun Published On: 2001-06-16 The kind of book that stirs the imagination. ― Lexington Herald-Leader Published On: 2001-06-03 A primer for anyone with dreams of 'getting away from it all.' -- Ted Hainworth ― Saskatoon Star Phoenix Published On: 2001-07-21 Clear, practical book ... full-color photos help do-it-yourselfers realize their dreams. ― Log Homes Illustrated Published On: 2001-11-01 With this study of the what, when, where, and how of cabin building, anyone's yearning for the last great place can be satiated. -- Patrick A. Smith ― ForeWord Published On: 2001-10-01 [The book will] lead the clumsiest carpenter through the necessary steps to build a cozy getaway. -- Annie Stoltie ― Adirondack Life Published On: 2002-10-15 You can do it!... For tips read Cabins: A Guide to Building Your Own Nature Retreat. -- Rebecca Sawyer-Fay ― Cottage Living Published On: 2005-04-01 David Stiles is a designer/builder who, together with his wife, Jeanie Stiles , has written articles for publications such as Better Homes and Gardens and the New York Times and authored 15 books, including Sheds and The Treehouse Book (which won the ALA Notable Children's Book Award). The Stiles divide their time between New York City and East Hampton, New York. Foreword by Don Metz, architect In North American culture, the cabin holds a unique place in our collective consciousness. Enshrined in the best traditions of grassrooted nostalgia, the cabin symbolizes those bedrock frontier virtues of self-reliance, sturdiness, simplicity, humility and ---by inference -- honesty. By its very lack of pretension, the cabin connotes a purity of life whose loss we yearn to recall. As a genre, it stands at the moral center of a particularly American ethos defined by a cast of characters as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Davy Crockett and Henry David Thoreau. During the colonial era, the cabin was home on much of the frontier, and is still remembered in folklore, song and verse as a safe and cozy haven. Today, the notion of the cabin as Home Sweet Home persists in literature and film. Whether in the mountains, on the prairie or by the lake, it remains a symbol of all that we value. Today, the cabin has become the place we get away to w