Vacation Homes and Log Cabins (Dover Crafts: Building & Construction)

I loved the useful variety of the entire book. I can see building at least two models in the next five years.

This is an excellent book for building ideas! I love it. It is old, but that's what makes the houses and cabin classic! This is a good buy!

Should have been shipped with a cardboard or something stiff to protect the paperback. Broke the spine in shipping. But cool book!

Very cool! Loved to see all the older designs. Using it to give some inspiration on a home I would like to build.

Nothing fancy or extravagant but good meat and potatoes building ideas for anyone looking to build a weekend getaway.

An insightful little book on simplification of building cabins and A-frame homes.

This book did contain some interesting or valuable information. This is the only reason I gave it two stars. As for the floor plans, they were the usual architectural crap that one sees in house plan catalogs sold at magazine stands these days. Log cabins used to be open floor plans, which allowed flexible use of the space. But, adding walls to divide up floor space not only wastes a lot of usable space, but make the cost of construction excessively high. Further, these unnecessary walls prevent an adequate fireplace from heating the entire cabin. And, every design calls for the bathing and toilet facilities being in the same room. So, when someone is taking a long, hot shower, anyone who has an urgent call of nature must make like a bear in the woods. You might as well have an outhouse. In conclusion, this book didn't provide much in the way of ideas or designs of the practical pioneer cabin that I was looking for.

Great amount of detail, very practical. Used copies are very inexpensive.