FOREWORD

Every Westerner wants a “vacation home”!Perhaps it is the nearness to pioneer daysthat makes us so alive to mountain forests andocean sands. Sunset’s Cabin Plan Book is primarilyfor those who are still in the “talkingstage.” However, there is much valuable informationin its pages for those who alreadyare enjoying the pleasures of a “second home,”where they spend week-ends and vacation days,living comfortably though simply at any timeof the year, while enjoying our Western heritageof the great outdoors.

The planning of a mountain cabin or beachcottage deserves just as careful and thoughtfulconsideration as the planning of a real home,though the actual construction is likely to beon a fairly simple scale.

The size of the cabin, whether it is built oflogs, stone or finished lumber, depends uponwhat you intend to use it for—a week-end cottagefor yourself and your family, a huntinglodge, a vacation home, or a little place whereyou can go off and examine the state of yoursoul in the quiet of the woods. You should considerthe number in the family and the numberof guests likely to be included, for “week-endcabin” should not be a synonym for active discomfort.Crowding maybe jolly for a few hoursor possibly for onenight, but seldom longerthan that.

The collection ofcabin plans in this bookis representative of whatwe believe to be the bestin Western vacation-homedesigning. Thefloor plans embody featuresthat may be shiftedfrom one to another,since these are not necessarilyworking plans,but suggestions aroundwhich you and your architector contractor-buildercan create acabin to fill your ownneeds. The same holdstrue of the cabinsketches themselves. You need not sheathe yourcabin in bevel siding just because it’s that wayin the picture. The same plan can be used fora shingle house or one of board and batten.

No attempt has been made to set down detailedinstructions for building any particularcabin, since no two are exactly alike, but wehave tried to present the information needed byan amateur who wants to build his own placeor oversee the work of a crew of country laborers.In addition to the cabin plans and visualizationsthere are numerous pages of cabin loregathered from many sources as well as from thepractical experiences of the Sunset Staff.

Cost estimates have been omitted purposely,as there are so many factors affecting the priceof materials, labor, and transportation in variouslocalities. Figures based on one localitywould not hold good in another. The distancefrom sources of supply is also an influence, becausematerials hauled only a few miles wouldcost far less than if they were shipped a hundredmiles and then transported by truck to thecabin site. Really, the only satisfactory answerto the cost problem is to take your plans to abuilder in the neighb

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