How to Build Cabins, Lodges, and Bungalows by Popular Science Monthly

Author:Popular Science Monthly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

The manner of making window shutters, divided doors, and rustic furniture is clearly shown in these sketches

A similar but somewhat more massive door can be made by using log-cabin siding set vertically for the outside, and knotty pine boards on the inside. Joints can be staggered for tightness. When properly done, a door of this construction looks as if it were built of carefully-matched slabs. The Z brace is of course fastened to the inside surface.

For cottages and cabins not of the log-cabin type, ordinary factory-made doors, with or without glass, are suitable. Usually the doors are made about of an in. larger than their listed widths and lengths, so that there will be sufficient wood for fitting.

The so-called Dutch door can be worked into the rustic cabin with ease. This door is in two sections, like barn doors you have seen, so that the upper half can be opened while the lower half remains closed. Such doors are excellent for use in kitchens because they can be opened at the top for ventilation. Doors of this type, as well as of the log-siding and knotty pine board construction, can be purchased ready-made.

For cupboard doors, nothing is simpler to use than plywood ⅝ to ¾ in. thick. This material, made up of five plies of veneer, can be cut out and hung without frames, the edges of the boards being merely planed and sanded smooth. Attractive cupboard and closet doors can be made also of knotty pine, redwood, cypress, cedar, and other attractive woods; or they can be constructed of ordinary flooring or ceiling when appearance is not of prime importance.

To keep out intruders and the weather when the cabin is not used, durable shutters are desirable for all windows. These can consist, for the rustic cabin, of boards weathered naturally or artificially and hung in pairs that swing outward against the side of the structure. White pine, cypress and redwood are among the materials that are suitable. The surface can be wire-brushed or scorched and brushed, to produce a weathered appearance. An attractive shutter is made of log siding arranged either vertically or horizontally. Thus a house covered with log siding can be made to look as if it had no windows at all, simply by closing the shutters. At least one company selling log-cabin materials is offering shutters made of artificially weathered lumber. The boards are sandblasted and stained so that they look as though they had been aged by long exposure to the elements.

Cabins and cottages, finished with shingles or weatherboarding, should be equipped with neat shutters painted in some harmonizing color. Thus a white cottage with buff trim and blue shutters and a rich brown roof would be highly attractive. There is an almost endless variety to the treatment that can be given to shutters to make them attractive. Standard batten-type shutters, the kind having horizontal strips set across them so that air can enter but rain cannot, are suitable, but are not as sturdy as when solid boards are used.

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