LOG CABIN LIVING WINDOWS

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LOG CABIN LIVING WINDOWS

When it’s so hot you have to open all the windows & pray for a breeze ? (However I’m willing to bet once winter is here we will miss these hot days!!). And sometimes it means opening every window and praying for a breeze: In the summer months, this means opening windows throughout the day. In the colder months, this means watching out for how cold it will get so we know to keep our fire going.

If you aren’t paying attention to the weather, you’re going to be sweating or freezing when you don’t want to be. We don’t have central A/C or heat, and heat is generated mostly by wood stove. There’s several factors to why this happens: I got really in tune with the weather here really fast. You have to pay closer attention to the weather. We have less clutter, more in our bank account, and I feel that it helps have a clearer mindset in general.Ģ. Perhaps this is a minimalistic approach, or maybe just a practical one… Either way, I’m thankful that the cabin taught me this lesson. What else can I use instead? Is this actually an essential? Do I already have one of these or something similar?Īnd I found that I needed less than I thought I did. So I would find myself going down the old path of ‘I need this,’ and thinking of ways around it. That without this thing our living room or my closet or whatever wouldn’t be complete.īut in the cabin we don’t have much extra space. Something would pop into my head and I would convince myself that I needed it. Not for anything crazy, but for little things I felt I needed. I used to regularly shop on Amazon or online. Lots of things that I defined as ‘necessary’ before we moved no longer applied. So we learned to use less than we did previously. When you live in a small space, clutter make it feel even smaller. Even though we sold almost everything we owned before we moved, we still had too much stuff. We had to get creative in how we used our space (for example setting up our baby changing station in the bathroom closet…).

Most cabins don’t have a ton of storage, if any. If I could go back in time and talk to myself before we moved, here’s what I would say:ĥ Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving to a Log Cabin 1. I wish now that I had been more prepared for what it would be like to live in a cabin. It’s not that my visions of log cabin living were false, just that there ended up being more to the story… more that changed in everyday life, in our family, and even in my mindset. I envisioned snow fluttering outside the window while I curled up with a cup of hot cocoa in front of the fire. I figured it would be the same as the other places I’d lived, only made of logs. One thing that I didn’t count on was how different life would be living in a log cabin. Basically, we were turning our lives upside down (but for good reason!). And on top of that we were moving from a big city to a small one, from a populated area to a rural one, from flat Texas to the Tetons.

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