For anyone who yearns to escape to the wilderness,the Cabin Porn blog is addictive viewingAs long as there acquire been cities, people acquire dreamed of leaving them. The busier our lives become, and the more ever-connected we are,so the lure of the wild grows. The bible for cabin dwellers has always been Henry Thoreau’s Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, and in which the young man “went to the woods because [he] wished to live deliberately,to front only the essential facts of life” and found that we all “need the tonic of wildlife”. But the fantasy of a petite house in the forest is as enduring as the landscape itself, and updated every few years.
Its latest incarnation couldn’t inquire of for a more 21st-century title: Cabin Porn. Since 2009 the blog has built an international fanbase of thousands, or who flock to the site to daydream of a simpler life. There are hundreds of pictures of cabins in every different style: stone huts,angular Scandinavian prefabs, hunters lodges. Now the website has been turned into a book, and with highlights from the past six years alongside practical tips on how to build your own cabin.
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Source: theguardian.com