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An alternating tread stair can help cabin owners by using half of the floor space of a normal stair to raise the same amount of height.
June 2009
by Dale Mulfinger
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The Thiss family's cottage, dubbed "Maple Knoll," dates back to 1920 and may have been built from a kit.
May 2009
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Tracey Abbott brought a little bit of Colorado back to Minnesota’s North Shore in the form of this family getaway.
September 2008
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O. J. Stephenson, a Chicago businessman turned northern Minnesota log furniture builder, constructed this two-story cabin in 1927 from jack pine harvested from his family's land.
August 2008
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The Stankeys took recyling to the next level with their cozy northwoods boxcar home.
July 2008
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This “Swiss cottage” provides an escape from daily routines for its owner.
June 2008
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Designed to keep every room facing Lake Vermilion, Hod Ludlow’s motel-style structure encourages an outdoor lifestyle unusual even at a Northwoods retreat.
May 2008
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Change can be traumatic, even when it’s necessary and for the greater good. Take this double A-frame that needed to be updated
to accommodate a growing number of visitors and the
structure’s current year-round use.
April 2008
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Ben Awes was honored to be entrusted with his family cabin’s blueprint.
September 2007
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The phenomenon of “door cabins” has us asking, when is a wall not just a wall?
August 2007
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The best encampments evolve through no careful
strategic plan, but rather follow the incremental
decisions of their
pragmatic owners.
July 2007
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When it comes to cabin furnishings, less
is definitely more.
June 2007
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A bargain on metal cabinets led this cabin to a mouse-proof kitchen makeover.
May 2007
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Henry Hansen’s log cabin is a story of stages.
April 2007
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Oliver "Bud" and Jeannette Peterson love the double A-frame cabin that's been their lakeside retreat for forty years.
September 2006
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After a few millennia of trial and error, we eventually settled on a handful of window choices that well serve our desire for view, ventilation, and sunlight.
August 2006
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The
Shafers' forest getaway is a study in evolution.
July 2006
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The Black family's sweet retreat in western Wisconsin is a site of honest labor.
June 2006
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On what is now Lake Mille Lacs, eons of wind and ice have since deposited the stones along its southern shore, providing a great source of building blocks for cobblestone walls.
May 2006
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This cabin's charm came by the process of accretion.
September 2005
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The
cottage of her dreams arrived on the back of a truck.
July 2005
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