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Here is a “before” photo of this cabin.

I never saw this log home where she came from… a professional salvager had carefully taken her down and sold her to my client.

My mission was to put her back up, better than ever. I think I did a pretty good job of doing just that.

I loved every minute of the process. And, I gained a lifelong friendship with the man who still lives there to this day.

Notice that there are two door openings on the second floor that I needed to “erase”.

A couple of interesting things to note about this cabin…

It was built in the early to mid 1800’s. Some of the logs in this home came from a log cabin that was built in the 1700’s… so, folks have been taking down and rebuilding cabins for a long time… this is not a new phenomena.

Also, the cabin in this photo was in West Virginia. When this cabin was built, pre-Civil War, this state was not West Virginia… it was Virginia. By taking this cabin down and rebuilding it in Virginia, this client returned the cabin to it’s home state.

Originally posted 2015-05-07 16:41:27.