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Our 5 favorite cabin must haves for winter
When the weather starts to turn, we love to cozy up with our favorite cabin goodies. Here are 5 must haves we can’t live without. Spring is officially here in California but winter just won’t quit! Our historic snowfall and below record temperatures is keeping us on the slopes longer and snuggled in at night even tighter. Check out what we’re staying warm and cozy with during this long Sierra winter! Blankets, blankets and more blankets! Honestly you can’t have enough. Mix and match colors and textures throughout your home to create visual warmth and interest. A chunky throw is always a winner draped over your living room sofa or…
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How To Winterize Your home or Cabin
Knowing how to winterize your home or cabin is extremely important in maintaining your home and preventing expense mishaps. Frozen pipes can cause more damage than you can imagine. Here are some important steps to winterizing your home. Take care of your pipes Making sure your pipes are insulated and ready for a cold snap is extremely important. Start early so you are prepared for an early arrival of winter. If you live in the home full time, when the temperatures are going to dip below freezing you can open your taps to allow a small flow of water through the faucet. Moving water does not freeze as fast. You…
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10 A-Frame Kit Homes You Can Buy Online
Affordable and Stylish! These homes are delivered ready to build! In the early part of the 19th century, kit homes were very popular. They were advertised in newspapers and magazines by companies such as Sears and Aladdin Homes. If you’d like to learn more about the history of Kit Homes, check out THIS post. Kit homes are once again gaining popularity for many reasons, affordability, reduced construction time and great designs are a few of them. Here are 10 A-Frame kit homes you can buy online: Backcountry Hut Company A Kit House for the back country or back yard! “We specialize in compact modernist recreational structures, crafted to rigorous standards,…
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New Floors in the A-Frame Cabin
This past weekend we started our first project at the cabin. Seeing as everything else rests on the floors it made sense to start with our cabin flooring. We spent a lot of time looking at different options before finally deciding on luxury vinyl plank (LVP) flooring. Although we love the look and feel of real hardwood it wasn’t the right choice for this project. First, we have plenty of real wood around the A-Frame. More importantly, we need floors that will hold up to anything we throw at them. The 4 Pines Cabin is five minutes away from some of the best skiing in California as well as close…
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Cabins of Tahoe
What we liked and didn’t like about the mountain house we toured over the years. We toured so many homes during the years we were looking for our perfect A-frame mountain house it would you head spin. Here are some of our favorites! Ermine Court, South Lake Tahoe This was the first house we made an offer on. My husband went to visit the home while I was back East visiting family. Our offer was accepted and we were excited, but something didn’t sit right. Although the home was in Christmas Valley, a very beautiful part of South Lake Tahoe and it sat within walking distance of the Carson River,…
