This would be a great size for a tiny house! Plenty of room for bath, kitchen, small bedroom and great room. This would be a great opportunity for someone thinking about a tiny house to vacation in a size they might think of living in. Kind of a try before you by scenario. Check out the link below if you would like to vacation in and rent one of these cabins.

You can check out where the cabins were delivered at http://www.glaciertrailheadcabins.com/

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Jon’s cabin is built by an Amish company called Cabins to Go and he had this 12 x 20 cabin constructed for around $18,000. You can view the previous post Jon’s Cabin in Wisconsin to learn more about it and see interior photos.

Thanks Jon for the update.

I bought the Little Cabin in 2003. It was a one room 20 x 30 ft. hunting cabin without indoor plumbing or electric and I paid $95,000. Utilities existed at the road about 100 feet from the cabin. My son and I used it as a summer camp cabin and each year I added an upgrade. One year water to a hydrant out back, another year electric to a power pole, another year a septic system. When visiting we would run a 100 ft electric cord to the interior to run a small electric heater (the wood stove was unsafe) and a small refrigerator. The homeowner’s association would not allow a compost toilet system because of my close proximity to the adjacent stream.

When I first bought the cabin, it contained old sleeping mattresses and had a broken window. Mice had moved in and it required deep cleaning to be habitable as a camp cabin. The cabin is situated on nearly 4.5 acres surrounded by National Forest, has year round access and is 3 minutes from a small Western town with amenities. Occasionally, the town runs horses and cattle down main street changing pastures! There is even a local rodeo every weekend in the summer as well as packhorse races for entertainment. Winter brings cross country skiing and animal watching.

In 2008, I added on a 20 x 30 ft addition to include indoor plumbing, a kitchen, a washer-dryer, and a sleeping loft. The contractor chopped down local logs, dried them at the local mill, and hand tied them into the original cabin to make a seamless addition. We refinished the original logs to ease the outside appearance and make it seamless. The addition of a new metal roof improved the fire resistance. We also cleared some adjacent trees and ground fuel. The property is part of the National Forest Firewise program where we manage the trees at the people wilderness interface.

The interior was done with liquidation materials and reused materials from a ReStore. The cabin is heated by a wood burning fireplace with a blower and ceiling fans are utilized to distribute the heat throughout the cabin. The contractor collected branches from the property to create the banister lining the bedroom loft. The ladder leading to the loft serves as a bookshelf as well. Furnishings were obtained from yard sales, Craigslist, and thrift stores. An original TieHack table and chairs that were in the cabin at time of purchase and were refurbished by a local artisan. The addition and improvements cost about $50,000.

Living in the forest brings its own challenges. Mice and rodents are constantly a challenge to keep from invading a property and destroying an interior. Large animals are a challenge to prevent feeding on trash or breaking into the cabin. This is a horse property and there is a corral to keep my horse and ride through the mountains. Plans are to move to the property as a primary residence in retirement.

Thanks Stephen for this beautiful Tiny House in a Landscape photo.

*Updated with interior photos and more details

This cabin was built with “skinny-D” (my term) logs, cut on site, laterally down the center, to make two logs. The cabin is twelve foot by twelve foot, and the log work was done in less than six days. From standing timber to a log set in the wall takes an average time of one hour per log. If you are in a remote location, and have good timber, this is about the cheapest way to build a small cabin. This cabin is located about two miles off the Yentna River in Alaska.

You can see that the Skinny-D logs give a nice flat surface, and can be made smooth with a planer and sander, but I have left it rustic. The wood stove is made from a 55 gallon barrel with the middle section cut out and re-welded. The chinking is primarily with a regular latex caulk, and a few areas are stuffed, but gaps are less that 1/2 inch. The logs are attached with 4″ self tapping screws driven at an angle from one log to the upper and lower log. The top logs are pinned with 1/2″ steel pins and 1/2″ hardwood dowels. The roof is an 8/12 pitch, with 2 x 4 rafters on 24 inch centers with 90 pound mineral roll on the outside.

The loft is 8′ x 12′ and can sleep three. There are two bunks on the main floor, plus a small dinner table, a kitchen area and some shelves. Access to the loft is by a ladder at the end of the bunks. Lighting is from a 12V system with 3 8 watt fluorescent lights power by a car battery that is charged with a Black & Decker jump starter unit that is good for about 3-4 days in the winter.

We have stayed nights when the temperature dropped to -25 F and stayed plenty warm. Two people is max for comfort, although it will sleep 4 without being crowded.

In the summer we go by boat about 35 miles from the closest launch in Willow, and then ride the half mile from the dock by ATV. In the winter we go by snow machine, right to the cabin door.

Here is the listing if you would like more information: http://www.ranwrealtors.com/wis/maildoc/a005K44039.html

I agree and hope the next owner of the home treats it well too. Thanks for sharing Dick, I really appreciate it!

Well, here in Montana, another winter is almost past. This one seemed to go on like the ever ready bunny. Around the middle of January I decided over a cup of coffer to build a small log home next to our office I share with my wife. Most of the things that I have built in my career have been stick built (dimensional lumber) so this was something new and stimulating for me.

Finished cabin

A friend in the next valley over did the log work and what a craftsman he is with his trade. We stacked the logs on a deck, lagging the first log into the six by six pressure treated plates We pinned all corners with sixty penny spikes, three quarter inch pipe through the logs in the field and used long log screws for the rafters. We insulated the roof, handmade the front door, installed double pane windows, chinked and trimmed it out.

Notice the beautiful fit

I wanted to finish out the inside with a kitchen and bath, but everyone that stops by had a different idea for its usage, so I thought I should leave that with the permanent owner. The cabin measures 16 x 24 with the 4 foot deck.

You can contact Paul via email paulmcmullin@hotmail.com

Lagbolt to the deck

Spiking the corner

Fully stacked

Cutting out for the rough bucks and windows

Two layers of high R value (6 per inch) foam with two by four sleepers for sheeting

Hinge on handmade door

Chinking over backer foam

Log scribe work on a valley jack

Door and window detail

Rafter and interior detail

What is your tiny house dream? Please share it with everyone via the comment section below. Have a wonderful weekend!

By: Estemerwalt Log Homes of Honesdale, PA

Photos:  http://www.estemerwalt.com/log-home-photos/exteriors/m-logcabin1.html
Photo Credit: Estemerwalt Log Homes/ www.estemerwalt.com

This Pennsylvania log cabin is a year-round rustic hunting and fishing retreat – the perfect outdoors getaway, and the very definition of aesthetic simplicity.  While not teeny-tiny, this little cabin is a marvel of simple efficiency.  The 1,200 square feet of living space relies on nooks to delineate space functionally; two small sleeping lofts meet at a spiral staircase, and there are three more beds on the main level.

Furnishings are sparse, as are amenities: this home is completely off the grid.  There is no running water – only an outside well and an outhouse. There is no power – the owner brings a generator with him when he’s there, and the log cabin is heated only by the woodstove and fireplace.  (The photographer brought a generator with him for this photo shoot, to light the cabin.)

Located two miles from the nearest road, this property came with a run-down cabin the owner initially planned to restore, before he realized a newer place would better serve for a hunting and fishing retreat. The logs come from Estemerwalt Log Homes, a 5th generation, family owned company with 125 years of experience in the lumber industry. The logs for this cabin are milled 10” round eastern white pine, and made the voyage to their final home here several logs at a time, due to the remote location of this property.
This is one home that fits its surroundings perfectly!