Please help me out here…
Which cabin would you choose?
The vintage design?
Or the modern design?
(assuming that both cost the same… which they likely would, if matching finishing details are applied)
I must admit that I was recently stunned when a large log cabin facebook page posted a photo of this orange cabin and then thousands of people chose to “like it” or make comments about how wonderful they thought it was.
I was… confused… at the response.
What am I not seeing?

Such a nice log cabin.
It’s a shame that they hired a talented carpenter with no skill in historic aesthetics. (a very common mistake).
The cabin, overall, is wonderful.
But, my eye is quickly drawn to the pressure treated lattice applied under the porch (it would be a quick fix to pull that out), but then I nearly fell out of my chair when my eye caught a glimpse of the replacement “chimney”.
What were they thinking?
It would have been better to haven no chimney than this wooden box.

So plain… yet so perfect.

You know you’re onto something special when a house can be built so basic and yet at the same time, so attractive.

Try building this same home with vinyl siding, an asphalt roof, and a vinyl clad chimney and see if you get the same result.

A mighty pretty barn, in need of some tender loving care.

If you want a nice cabin, but the budget is lean, think small, not cheap.

This is Johnny Johnson, seen sitting out front of his log cabin with his faithful companion, Sparky. Johnny clearly needs a good wife to “encourage” him to do more aesthetically pleasing maintenance repairs to the home.

Have you ever looked at someone and you could just tell what they did for a living?

An attractive way to create a large cabin is by combining two or more together as this home does.

I wish this image was a little sharper. It appears this woman is extremely happy about something… maybe it’s because she has two darling children and they all live together in a handmade log home?

I’ve heard it said that men would hike into the wilderness of Kentucky with nothing but a rifle and an axe head. Upon arriving they would take the axe head and create a handle for it. And then, they would take the completed axe and make a simple cabin like this where they would live for a few years while clearing their land and building a larger home… a cabin with wood floors, a stone foundation, and stone chimney.