When the stress of daily life starts to get to you, often just the thought of a quiet, sylvan getaway is enough to make you feel better. Imagine making that thought a reality by building your own private cabin somewhere off the beaten path. A welcoming retreat where you can escape, relax and savor the timeless moments in peace.

If you have a cabin dream, this book is your ticket to making it real. With Cabinology as your map and architect Dale Mulfinger as your guide, you'll find the best way to approach every decision -- from choosing a site for a new cabin, to remodeling an old one, to getting precisely the right fireplace for melting away whatever ails you.

Cabinology doesn't just guide you, it inspires you too -- with photos of cabins small and large, great design tips, stories from cabin owners around the country, and clever insights into getting a cabin of your own.

About the Author
Minnesota architect and cabinologist Dale Mulfinger has designed cabins all over North America. He teaches a class on cabin design at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. He is the author of the best-selling The Cabin, published by The Taunton Press.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1
The Cabin in Your Mind

CHAPTER 2
Cabinology 101

CHAPTER 3
Making the Cabin Your Own

CHAPTER 4
The Master Plan

CHAPTER 5
Assembly Required

CHAPTER 6
God is in the Details

CREDITS

Cabins can exist for us in two ways. They're places we visit in person every time we get the chance. And for some of us, they're places we visit only in spirit, where we mentally take ourselves during a boring business meeting or whenever the modern world seems too encroaching.

Transcending the cabin in your mind to the reality of your own, very real cabin plopped down on your own little slice of heaven is what Cabinology is all about. This book of all things "cabin" will help you mold your dreams into the reality of that glowing fireplace, that predawn aroma of freshly brewed coffee, and to the pitter-patter of your loved one just rousing overhead in the loft.

It's not that you simply want a cabin. You need a cabin to bring some balance into your life, to recharge those rundown batteries, to cleanse the soul, to reconnect to nature. Your cabin is a realm of tranquility where sleeping in is not just reserved for Sunday morning, and where a good book and an Adirondack chair are an afternoon's marriage.

Cabins contrast the vast world outside with the intimate world within. Unlike in our suburban world, the world of the cabin is a place where modesty and charm outweigh size and grandeur, while simplicity and flexibility outshine the sophisticated and complicated.

We go to the cabin to get away from phones, television, computers, and other symbols of our interconnected world. At the cabin we will have time to complete a jigsaw puzzle with Aunt Betty or spend a slow yet memorable afternoon fishing with Uncle Bob.

Privacy will go out the same window that a fresh summer breeze comes in. The larder will have to store the essential ingredients for s'mores. And you can leave that recipe for Chateaubriand back in the city.

Customer Reviews from Amazon

Excellent book on finding the perfect location as well as planning your cabin upgrade or building new project. Highly recommend it.

This is a great companion to Mulfinger's "The Cabin" book. This book has wonderful photos and sketches that detail a variety of cabin ideas and designs. Good tips for the planning and layout of a cabin. I've enjoyed every chapter. I gave four stars instead of five because I would like to know the budget for some of the cabins shown in the photos. I would recommend this book for anyone who is interested in building a cabin. Thank you, Dale, for another great book.

Our son-in-law is enjoying his book. They will be building a log home in the future and this has given him many ideas for that home. Sandra

This is a fully loaded book on how to build, maintain, care for and decorate your cabin. I myself do not own a cabin but bought it because my husband and I decorate our home in the "cabin/lodge" look inside as well as outside and the mere idea of this book caught my eye once I saw it at our local bookstore. I ordered it and was not sorry- only for the fact that I did'nt have a "second" house or cabin to apply more of its ideas too. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Its not something I read from page to page but rather flipped thru to parts that interested me. This author knows his stuff and will definately lead you down the right path if you choose to build a cozy cabin yourself or like me- being a person who "fiends" cabins and lodges and found it a "must have" to put in my own personal library. Well done, choke full of tons of important things to know when building or maintaining especially.

I loved Dale Mulfinger's The Cabin with its great assembly of cabins in every style and price range. And Cabinology is the perfect sequel -- it gives you the examples but also tells you how to achieve a cabin for yourself. Whether you have land and money or yet just a dream, Cabinology delivers a huge value. Wonderful photographs, illustrations, to-the-point "cabiny" quotations, and interesting first-person Cabin Stories from happy cabin owners -- or just cabin lovers -- all across North America.
If you really want a cabin of your own, or are just content with the dream, get Cabinology. The name says it all.

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