If a love of the outdoors inspires you to build a cabin, why not let Mother Nature be your decorator, too? Bring natural elements in all their imperfect glory into your cabin, and you’ll add warmth and authenticity to your surroundings. The gentle curves of organic materials can soften the hard edges of manufactured finishes and make a cabin truly unique. As you design or decorate your cabin, consider adding logs, branches, twigs, stone – even antlers – to the mix, and watch your home’s personality blossom.
Rustic Style: It's Only Natural
Add life to your cabin with organic touches.
APPEALING PEELS
In a rustic home in Montana’s Yellowstone Club, great slabs of rock serve as stairs that wrap around a rugged fireplace. Overhead, skip-peeled log beams highlight the contrasting colors of the logs’ layers. Branchy stair railings add to the woodsy charm, which is reinforced by distressed barnwood paneling applied vertically to the exterior wall.
Architect/builder: Faure-Halvorsen Architects/Teton Heritage Builders
Photo by Karl Neumann
Written by
Janice Brewster