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Weekend Cabin: Casas Na Areia, Portugal

by steve casimiro on May 11, 2012 · 1 comment

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Weekend Cabin is a collection of stealthily modern cabins lurking in rustic remodeled Portuguese fishing huts.

Weekend Cabin: Whangapoua, New Zealand

by steve casimiro on May 4, 2012 · 3 comments

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Honestly, I just like saying “Whangapoua” over and over. The fact that this beach cottage is pretty spectacularly awesome is beside the point. Whangapoua, Whangapoua, Whangapoua. The Whangapoua Sled House gives new meaning to “mobile home” — it was moved into position by tractor on the sand of New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula in a high-erosion [...]

Weekend Cabin: San Juan Island, Washington

by steve casimiro on April 27, 2012 · 0 comments

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This week’s Weekend Cabin was built for a weaver, with a loom overlooking sparkling PNW waters.

Weekend Cabin: The HemLoft, Whistler, B.C.

by steve casimiro on April 20, 2012 · 7 comments

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An illegal, clever, and stunningly beautiful treehouse.

Weekend Cabin: Mill Valley, California

by steve casimiro on April 6, 2012 · 5 comments

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If you’re going to dream about having one cabin, why not dream about two? This central California couple had the land and inclination and, working with Feldman Architects, built one cabin to serve as a painter’s studio and another to be a yoga space/guest house. The duo play peekaboo through the trees, and the lower, [...]

Weekend Cabin: Trunk House, Australia

by steve casimiro on March 30, 2012 · 1 comment

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There are houses made in the trees and then there are houses made of trees, and the Trunk House is decidedly the latter. This small cabin in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia, is supported with y-shaped trunks of the stringbark tree foraged from the ground in the surrounding forest. “Our original interest was in [...]

Declination: Assembling a Yurt In Just Two Minutes

by steve casimiro on March 13, 2012 · 1 comment

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If I was going to build a cabin, I’d start with the land. Then would come a yurt, relatively inexpensive, extremely low impact, and a great way to get to know the shifting scape of light and weather and season. Yurts, of course, were invented in Mongola, where their proper name is “ger” (“yurt” is [...]

Weekend Cabin: Austin, Texas

Take a passing glance at the outside of the cabin at Austin Heaven and you could be fooled into thinking it’s 50 years old, or 100, or 150. This wood-walled, metal-roofed shelter is firmly rooted in the time-tested architectural tradition of West Texas Hill Country — it’s easy to picture some grizzled poke sitting on [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Cahuita, Costa Rica

The last time I was in Cahuita, Costa Rica, on the quiet Caribbean coast, the main street was dirt, town was four blocks by two, and the bar started serving sweating beers at 11 a.m. The swankiest place to stay was a two-story whitewashed cinder block structure with mostly cold water and, if you were [...]

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Weekend Cabin: La Clusaz, France

So many tree houses look like they were built by hippies or hobbits, but les cabanes dans les arbres just west of La Clusaz, France, retain the traditions of a true cabin: log walls, post and beam construction, and a simple rustic aesthetic you could find just about anywhere in the Alps. Indeed, this pair [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Muskoka, Ontario

Here’s the plan: First, get a boat. Second, earn enough coin to have a house for my boat. Third, build boathouse that looks a lot like this one. Fourth, move into boathouse. Fifth, rarely leave. Located at Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada, the 600-square-foot structure is a renovation of an existing boathouse. It has a minimalist [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Niercombe, France

Scattered throughout the mountains of south-central France are hundreds of stone huts called burons. Constructed for the production of cheese, they date at least as far back as the 13th century, when a tax was imposed on their construction (the hand of the Man dates even further back, of course). For hundreds of years, burons [...]

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Fresh Goods: AT Action Camper for Jeep

Note: It has been brought to our attention that the Action Camper was in fact designed in Austria by Thaler Design. We apologize for any confusion, dizziness, fainting or lack of sleep this may have caused.Somewhere deep in the Arizona Desert, Mario Donovan is trying to make car camping more fun, convenient, and accessible. It [...]

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Fresh Goods: First Ascent Katabatic 4-Season Tent

Somebody somewhere will probably buy the First Ascent Katabatic tent for car camping, but holy windstorm, Batman, that’s not why it’s made. This is a high-alpine tent designed to handle high-alpine conditions — big blows, big snows. It took Peter Whittaker, Ed Viesturs, and the other members of the development team three years and seven [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Allandale House

Is there anyone who doesn’t have a soft spot for A-frames? Despite their spatial inefficiency, A-frames are romantic, retro, hopeful, and fun. And as imagined here by architect William O’Brien, modern and more function than their reputation would suggest. Allandale House is a merging of three asymmetric A-frames, actually. The widest of the three contains [...]

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