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Cabin Lessons a Nail by Nail Tale [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius: 210x140 mm, colour photographs
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2015
  • Kirjastus: Storey Publishing LLC
  • ISBN-10: 1612125670
  • ISBN-13: 9781612125671
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius: 210x140 mm, colour photographs
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2015
  • Kirjastus: Storey Publishing LLC
  • ISBN-10: 1612125670
  • ISBN-13: 9781612125671
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"Carpenter Spike Carlsen, his wife, and their recently blended family of five kids set out to build a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior. Part building guide and part memoir, Cabin Lessons tells the funny, wry, and heartwarming story of their eventful journey--from buying land on an eroding cliff to (finally) enjoying the hideaway of their dreams. Learning as they go, and learning about themselves and each other along the way, they find in the end that they've built a strong family as much as a sturdy cabin"--From publisher's website.

An award-winning author describes how his recently blended family worked together to build a cabin on Lake Superior's north shore, detailing how they discovered each other throughout each step of building a vacation home.

The award-winning author of A Splintered History of Wood describes how his recently blended family worked together to build a cabin on Lake Superior's north shore, detailing how they discovered each other throughout each step of building a dream getaway home. Original.

Carpenter Spike Carlsen, his wife, and their recently blended family of five kids set out to build a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior. Part building guide and part memoir,Cabin Lessons tells the funny, wry, and heartwarming story of their eventful journey -- from buying land on an eroding cliff to (finally) enjoying the hideaway of their dreams. Learning as they go, and learning about themselves and each other along the way, they find in the end that they’ve built a strong family as well as a sturdy cabin.


Introduction 10(3)
Chapter 1 Wanted: Difficult Piece of Land
13(14)
If you can't find a perfect piece of land, buy an imperfect piece and make it perfect
Chapter 2 Designing Small
27(11)
You can't buy happiness by the square foot
Chapter 3 The Rules
38(7)
When you build, build with hands, head, and heart
Chapter 4 Paperwork & Earthworks
45(12)
Mensch tracht, Gott lacht. (Man plans, God laughs.)
Chapter 5 A Solid Foundation
57(13)
When you dig a hole, be smarter than the shovel
Chapter 6 Kat --- Wife, Lifesaver, Carpenter
70(15)
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
85(16)
Destiny can throw down a pretty sparse trail of popcorn for you to follow
Chapter 8 The Drive
101(13)
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
114(10)
Keep an open mind --- you never know what might crawl in
Chapter 10 Skin of the Cabin & Middle-Age Blahs
124(10)
Beauty is only plywood deep
Chapter 11 A Superior Lake (Some Superior Towns)
134(12)
When you get caught with your pants down, run like hell
Chapter 12 Wood, Wire, Pipe, & Drywall
146(19)
The quandary with life is you're halfway through before you realize it's a do-it-yourself project
Chapter 13 Family Matters
165(15)
Life is a fluid, not a solid. It changes. Be ready for it
Chapter 14 Finishing Touches
180(14)
When it's ninety percent finished, it's finished
Chapter 15 Troubles in Paradise
194(12)
Mistakes are the dues you pay for living a full life
Chapter 16 Settling In, Grooving Out
206(12)
There's more to life than increasing its speed
Afterword 218(5)
For Further Reading 223