The New House: a Mountain Cabin

It’s time for you to see my current house!

It’s a cabin in the mountains, the complete opposite of the last house in a busy town (and in walking distance of all the good amenities). Now I’m off-grid (solar, wood stove, well water, septic) and I love it.

The woods have overtaken the back yard, but once I get the trees cleared, there is a beautiful valley and mountain view from the whole house.

I’ve been here for a few years now, but I’m only sharing and the pictures from when I first moved in in this post.

Thankfully it didn’t really need many repairs, mostly just cosmetic stuff. And a lot of that is still left to do, but it’s coming along.

The good part about only having subfloor is that I don’t have to pull up any flooring to put down good stuff.

It’s essentially a one room cabin, but it’s pretty big at over 1,600 square feet (bigger than the Victorian).

The bedroom is a loft over the kitchen and it overlooks the bar/dining room and living room.

The bar was one of my favorite features, it’s made of one giant slab of wood from the property with live edge on both sides. And it has a working tap, with all the hookups for a keg in the basement. XD Sadly I’m allergic to beer, but I have been thinking it would be cool to put a barrel of water down there and have sparkling water on tap.

The house was built as a hunting cabin, and then the builder/owner decided to live here full time, so he added on the living room and all kinds of cool features.

As is always important to me, I want to keep the original intent of the house in mind when finishing. It will remain a masculine hunting cabin, just updated.

The house is currently a sea of orange with all the aged wood, but I’m working out ways to tone it down and will NOT be painting the walls. But the orange right now…wow.

The kitchen really needed a lot of work. It had mismatched cabinets that didn’t fit in the space. The vintage fridge was so cute, but sadly it wasn’t in good enough condition to use anymore and our quote for restoring it was many thousands.

The kitchen is totally different now, but it’s not finished so you can’t see it yet. I purchased a second-hand kitchen of Facebook Marketplace and altered everything to fit. The appliances were replaced with vintage-look new ones.

Project posts will be coming soon!