Anyone Built a Log Cabin??
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Caporegime
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Good idea if you ask me.
My grandad and uncle built one a couple of years back in the garden of my uncle's cottage for my cousin to live in. It had a large open plan living room/kitchen/diner, with a shower and toilet, and upstairs one massive bedroom. For some reason, no planning permission was required because it wasn't a substantial structure... or something along those lines?
Anyways, it's a nice little place, has everything you need in there and is really quite spacious. I was a bit jealous when I saw it.
Anyways, it's a nice little place, has everything you need in there and is really quite spacious. I was a bit jealous when I saw it.
What do you get if you integrate a cabin?
A beach-hut:
log cabin + c
Surely that'd be if you integrate (cabin)^-1 ?
But you beat me to it...
My grandad and uncle built one a couple of years back in the garden of my uncle's cottage for my cousin to live in. It had a large open plan living room/kitchen/diner, with a shower and toilet, and upstairs one massive bedroom. For some reason, no planning permission was required because it wasn't a substantial structure... or something along those lines?
Anyways, it's a nice little place, has everything you need in there and is really quite spacious. I was a bit jealous when I saw it.
That's what I am looking at, I checked with the local planning officer and because it's a temp structure I can get away with 0 planning permission and only building regs if I don't have an oven.
9mx5m is what I am thinking with solar panels, a wood burner and 2 night storage heaters. Connected to mains water and power via my parents house. It's just for me to use when I am at home as I work away during the week at the moment. Saving has so far got me no where and I don't fancy 1.5K a month on a mortgage right now (I hope to travel for a year at 29 or 30).
My friends have one and rent their house out which is also another option if I do get a house. I'm after a classic Cornish cottage or failing that any house in my home town would be highly rent-able during the summer months.
