We'd have gone into debt up to our eyeballs - all for counter-intuitive sake of pursuing leisure. Looking back on the past year, it's kind of funny how crazy we must have been to think we could build the cabin we'd originally planned. I say 'crazy', but actually a lot of this entire cabin scheme is his crazy idea, and look how that's worked out. Our next projects are a treehouse for the boys and an outdoor kitchen/bar. It's so cool to see everything come full circle like this, and to realize how many people like us there are out there – people who just want a simple little 'wooden tent' to kick back in. I also gave a tour of the cabin at Apartment Therapy, which has gotten some really nice attention and some super-nice comments over there, and which has led to posts on Tiny House Blog and Shedworking, the site that first inspired us. (It's wire, people! What's with the fancy pricing!) Since our last post, John and Stefan have done a fabulous job of expanding the deck, and Stefan deserves some kind of Genius of the Year Award for coming up with the idea of using rebar for the railings, after we learned that tension-wire would be about half the price it cost to build the entire cabin.

Cabin fever vacations oh my cabin