Your Cabin In The Woods by Conrad E. Meinecke

By Conrad E. Meinecke

Ever dream of escaping to a comfy cabin within the nice open air? This detailed bind-up of Conrad Meinecke's vintage works is helping make fact, whereas presenting a deeper appreciation of nature and of creating anything together with your personal hands.
For 70 years, readers were having fun with Meinecke's odes to the straightforward existence, Your Cabin within the Woods and Cabin Craft and outdoors Living. For the 1st time, those books are mixed right into a deluxe two-color classic package.
In writing either useful and inspirational, Meinecke information easy methods to flip your cabin dream right into a fact, from picking out land to utilizing instruments to the fundamentals of development. He offers hand-drawn ground plans for numerous cabins, from an easy two-room to a extra advanced lengthy condo. a couple of sections specialize in tips to construct fireplaces, either interior and out. He additionally offers directions for uncomplicated furnishings, lighting fixtures, and different touches that make a cabin consider like domestic. all through are Meinecke's ideas on how one can take pleasure in your new-found area, from hearty hearth recipes to the categories of wooden for an ideal hearth and the sweetness present in birdsong.
Practical because it will be, the book's enduring charm owes largely to its warmly enticing tone and enterprise trust within the restorative strength of nature and the delight of exertions. He writes, "Take complete entertainment within the development. Take day out to relaxation. so much urban fogeys appear continuously to hurry issues via. Why? Lay off till the next day. Take a day nap. cease the clock for the weekend. Get off to an early commence within the cool of the next day morning. you can be crowded on your paintings on the town, yet this could be your relaxation remedy, your recreating."

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Eight-ounce duck canvas, double-filled, is heavy enough for this size tent. Hang tent over wood frame and fasten all around bottom. Guy ropes not needed. Tent wall is two feet, six inches high. Therefor to have standing room a frame wall is built to four feet, six inches with two-foot board siding below. Nine by twelve tent is large enough for twin beds, dresser, washstand, rug. Tent fly, if ten feet by sixteen feet with air space between Παγε −15− fly and tent, will help to keep your tent cool in hot weather; also will provide a four-foot porch.

Cut the hardware cloth in strips about three inches wide; fold lengthwise in a slight "V" shape and drive in between logs and nail to upper or lower log. This is not absolutely necessary, but gives added strength. Dead-air space makes perfect non-conductor. Better to chink with moss if logs are not thoroughly dry or leave unchinked until dry. Lime one part, sand three parts, wood-ashes twenty-five parts, salt two parts, thoroughly mixed with dry moss will serve well for a hunter's lodge. The ashes tend to keep vermin away.

16− Our Window Picture Frame The big window in our cabin resembles a picture frame in which miles of landscape across the valley bring nature's choicest pictures to life. Each hour of the day brings intriguing new vistas, changing lights and shadows. The early morning sun lights up the sparkling lily pond below us, which in turn throws playful, mischievous lights about us. As the day wears on pastoral scenes replace the picture of the misty morning and through our "picture frame" we see else hillside dotted with lowing cattle, green fields boxed in with rail fences and lined with small trees and bushes telling the story of the toil and accomplishment of our neighboring farmers.

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