Cabin to go?

It’s not at all what I had in mind for the Loveless estate, but when Chris and I spotted this log cabin for sale at the side of the road a couple of weeks back, it looked like an opportunity worth exploring.

It’s listed at $10,000 (though it sounds like I could get it for $5K) and will cost about $10,000 to move it about 6 miles to Loveless Lake.

It was built in the early 1990s as an office for a company that built log cabins back in the boom times. The building later became a hair salon and most recently was a real estate office.

It has a bathroom, but no kitchen, not even a sink. It’s dark, in desperate need of more windows, and will require pulling out a lot of drywall and skanky carpet.

Yep, another rehab project.
 

Porch entrance with drywall of former office space.





One of two loft bedrooms

The roof leaked in the other bedroom. Supposedly fixed, but serious water damage.



Dusty catwalk.



 

I'm giving it serious thought. It’d certainly fit in with the neighborhood. And I could have a roof over my head for what seems like a good price.

Moving a 26’ x 30’ structure onto my land and down the hill will require major excavation. The path would cut right through those lovely river birches that I was so thrilled to discover this spring.

I’ve gotten attached  to the little footpath Chris and I created through the trees and ferns that reclaimed the former driveway. Somehow I never looked ahead and thought about the realities of rebuilding. Pretty much anything I do – digging a well, building a foundation, putting in septic – will wreck the land, if only temporarily.

Then again, moving some earth around will give us a chance to create rain gardens and add some natural vegetation to combat erosion and storm water runoff.

Damn tradeoffs.