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Cabin Lessons: A Nail-by
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- ISBN
- 9781612125671
- Book Title
- Cabin Lessons : a Nail-By-Nail Tale: Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters, and Love
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Storey Publishing, LLC
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, House & Home, Architecture
- Topic
- Construction / General, Design & Construction, Personal Memoirs, Buildings / Residential, Parenting / Stepparenting, Do-It-Yourself / General, Construction / Carpentry
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 1.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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When carpenter Spike Carlsen and his wife set out with their recently blended family of five kids to build a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior, they quickly realized that painting, parenting, and putting up drywall all come with both frustrations and unexpected rewards. Part building guide and part memoir, Cabin Lessons tells the wryly funny, heartwarming story of their eventful journey -- from buying an unforgiving plot of land on an eroding cliff to (finally) enjoying the lakeside hideaway of their dreams.
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Publisher
Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN-10
1612125670
ISBN-13
9781612125671
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201662609
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cabin Lessons : a Nail-By-Nail Tale: Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters, and Love
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Construction / General, Design & Construction, Personal Memoirs, Buildings / Residential, Parenting / Stepparenting, Do-It-Yourself / General, Construction / Carpentry
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, House & Home, Architecture
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
1.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Th4840.C37 2015
Reviews
"An uplifting tale of hoisting studs, [this] two-year odyssey of cabin construction weaves carpentry skills, parenting, and love through a weft of humor." -- Dale Mulfinger, author and Cabinologist "Carlsen chronicles the realities and and pitfalls as well as the joys and satisfactions of creating a human-scaled getaway. Complete with ample practical advice, Cabin Lessons is a must-read for anyone "knotty pining" for a place of their own." -- Sarah Stonich, author of Shelter and Vacationland, "An uplifting tale of hoisting studs, [this] two-year odyssey of cabin construction weaves carpentry skills, parenting, and love through a weft of humor." -- Dale Mulfinger, author and Cabinologist "Carlsen chronicles the realities and and pitfalls as well as the joys and satisfactions of creating a human-scaled getaway. Complete with ample practical advice, Cabin Lessons is a must-read for anyone "knotty pining" for a place of their own." -- Sarah Stonich, author of Shelter and Vacationland "The story is the perfect blend of inspiration and information. It also offers ... the biggest home-building lesson of all: sometimes it's not the end result, but the journey that brings a family closer together." -- Timber Home Living " Cabin Lessons ... is part how-to, part memoir and part love story--love of Kat, love of Lake Superior, love of building." -- The Minneapolis Star Tribune "If you've ever dreamed of building your own cabin, you should read this book. Cabin Lessons recounts [Spike and Kat's] entertaining and instructive story of building together with plenty of lessons for a would-be cabin or house builder. It's also a meditation by a kind, modest and genuinely funny guy on building a marriage, a blended family and a life. You'll be grinning. Guaranteed" -- The Family Handyman "Spike Carlsen's book ... chronicles the family's route from a scenic dream (with a modest budget) to designing and building, to filling the space with family, to a (rejected) blank-check purchase offer from a slickster driving an Italian-made car. And it's all told in the voice of someone you want to see sitting on the other side of the campfire, sharing a blanket with his wife, dispensing charming tales and life lessons in calm, even rolls." -- The Duluth News Tribune "This memoir shines because Spike is a likeable storyteller. He travels from the purchase of an it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time impossible building site through the construction and occupation of a marvelous modest cabin. He weaves in bits of shore history, philosophical musing and warm family moments that make this a true keeper." -- Lake Superior Magazine "Carlsen's life history makes him qualified to build a cabin and write a book about the painstaking yet joyful experience. As a carpenter and accomplished woodworker, he ran his own construction and remodeling company. As a magazine editor and author, he has written about home remodeling and has four books about wood and woodworking, including the award-winning A Splintered History of Wood: Belt Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers and Baseball Bats ." --Tori McCormick, Outdoor Editor, Minneapolis Star Tribune, "An uplifting tale of hoisting studs, [this] two-year odyssey of cabin construction weaves carpentry skills, parenting, and love through a weft of humor." -- Dale Mulfinger, author and Cabinologist "Carlsen chronicles the realities and and pitfalls as well as the joys and satisfactions of creating a human-scaled getaway. Complete with ample practical advice, Cabin Lessons is a must-read for anyone "knotty pining" for a place of their own." -- Sarah Stonich, author of Shelter and Vacationland "The story is the perfect blend of inspiration and information. It also offers ... the biggest home-building lesson of all: sometimes it's not the end result, but the journey that brings a family closer together." -- Timber Home Living
Table of Content
Introduction Chapter 1: Wanted: Difficult Piece of Land If you can't find a perfect piece of land, buy an imperfect piece and make it perfect. Chapter 2: Designing Small You can't buy happiness by the square foot. Chapter 3: The Rules When you build, build with hands, head, and heart. Chapter 4: Paperwork & Earthworks Mensch tracht, Gott lacht. (Man plans, God laughs.) Chapter 5: A Solid Foundation When you dig a hole, be smarter than the shovel. Chapter 6: Kat--Wife, Lifesaver, Carpenter When you marry, you marry the whole person -- not just the parts above the waterline. You get both the silk sails and the barnacles. Chapter 7: Cabin Bones Destiny can thrown down a pretty sparse trail of popcorn for you to follow. Chapter 8: The Drive If all the difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. Chapter 9: Buying Cabin Parts Keep an open mind -- you never know what might crawl in. Chapter 10: Skin of the Cabin & Middle-Age Blahs Beauty is only plywood deep. Chapter 11: A Superior Lake (Some Superior Towns) When you get caught with your pants down, run like hell. Chapter 12: Wood, Wire, Pipe, & Drywall The quandary with life is you're halfway through before you realize it's a do-it-yourself project. Chapter 13: Family Matters Life is a fluid, not a solid. It changes. Be ready for it. Chapter 14: Finishing Touches When it's ninety percent finished, it's finished. Chapter 15: Troubles in Paradise Mistakes are the dues you pay for living a full life. Chapter 16: Settling In, Grooving Out There's more to life than increasing its speed. Afterword For Further Reading
Copyright Date
2015
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2014-043111
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