Dunster House Cabin

A great deal has happened since I last posted. The biggest event being a house move, which meant I had to leave behind my crafting cabin. However, it was the first job on the list and I have a new and larger one. We have not finished the area around the cabin and we will need some new furniture to go inside but it is  up and running.

Dunster House Log Cabin Craft Haven

Some of you may recall back in the summer of 2015 I had a Dunster House Log Cabin constructed in my back garden. In my mind, it was alway going to be my craft/sewing room. It has taken a while to convince my husband of this...  BUT I DID IT!

Dunster House Log Cabin.... It is finished!

We are so pleased with our Dunster house log cabin! Everything was just as they said, there were no problem parts and there were no missing parts. It went together so easily.

I love going down the garden in the evening to watch the television, sew and crochet. My husband has not been banned, some of his books down there too!

The reason this post is so late is that I have been super busy with work. Even marking has been made easier when I go down to the cabin, it is so peaceful, there are no distraction, marking is done in half the time, a slight exaggeration there!

We are also pleased that the went for the fully insulated option, yes it was slightly more expensive, but I really do feel that we will be able to use the cabin all year round! I am already planning for Christmas!

Log Cabin Construction :- Days 3 and 4

I did not post yesterday as I was feeling a little disheartened by the progress we were making and there was not a great deal to show you. We had problems with the instructions and our ability to follow them! Then followed a problem with missing insulation, the place we ordered it from had run out (please note this was NOT Dunster House) and only delivered seven sheets  instead of the nine that we needed, this meant we had to go and get some more from elsewhere.

Not sure why the time lapse videos are not showing as videos, the links are below.

Day Three:- Time Lapse


Today was a great day and as you can see we have progressed a great deal further.

Day Four:- Time Lapse

Day One Log Cabin Construction

It has been a long day! The cabin delivery from Dunster House arrived at 10am, which gave us the whole day to get started. It could not have gone more smoothly. The delivery driver was really helpful.As predicted we knew the base levelling would take some time... It really did, the base is almost level and square ready for us to start building tomorrow.

The start.... Log Cabin project!

There is going to be a slight change in subject matter on my blog for a while. For over a year we have been saving to buy a log cabin for our garden. The idea is it will be a little retreat from the house when the children have friends round. Or they can go down there… well that is what I have been telling my husband! I am sure it would make a lovely sewing room! 

We have spent many hours on the internet doing our research. At one point we were just going round in circles. In the end we decided to go with a company called Dunster House. We went down to their showroom in Warminster to have a look and were impressed with the quality of the cabins on display. It was also at that point that we decided we should spend more money and go for a fully insulated cabin. It was a hot day and we sat in the 45mm cabin and it was really hot in there, we then sat in the fully insulated cabin and it felt comfortable to sit in. We want to be able to use the cabin throughout the year and getting the fully insulated one will allow us to do that.

In order to get the garden ready for the arrival of the cabin has been a massive project. We had a shed at the end of the garden that needed replacing when we moved in 14 years ago. The cabin is going to be in front of the shed so it was decided that the shed had to be replaced before the cabin comes. That is now done! It is rather sad that I got rather excited by a new shed, the old shed was in such a state and everything in there was just piled up. The new shed is well organised and everything has its place, it even has guttering.

This is the link to the cabin we are getting. https://dunsterhouse.co.uk/premium-rhine-w4-0m-x-d3-0m

We are going for the Premium Plus and the walls are 130mm thick, this includes the insulation gap.

The cabin will be arriving on Wednesday… I can’t wait to get started.

I thought I would share some photos of my new shed.