Building a log cabin fireplace8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() That fireplace, with the hand-carved sign on the mantel that told 100 years’ worth of campers, “ Chop your own wood-it’ll warm you twice”, was the absolute focal point of an entire end of the lodge, and warm us it did, without effort, in Wisconsin winters.Īnd there lay the only hitch of the plan: we’re not in Wisconsin anymore, Dorothy. In my mind’s eye, I see the fireplace in the log lodge at Girl Scout camp: native stones stacked by campers, not masons. Maybe.Īnd the dangerous high-off-of-the-ground and/or needing-power-tools stuff we had our contractor friend do, but the REST of the stuff? All us, baby.Īnd one of the things I looked forward to doing most was placing the stone fireplace in the center of the house-the only thing that separates the living room from the kitchen and dining rooms. Now, we didn’t build the cabin ourselves we “cheated” and had the log home company’s crew come in and put up the completed shell (foundation poured with stubbed-in plumbing, logs erected with wiring inside, windows and doors installed, porches built and roof on) in the time it would’ve taken US to sort out the logs and lay the first course. Nothing says “log cabin in the pines” like a big solid natural stone fireplace, so when we built our log cabin in the pines, that’s what we wanted. ![]()
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