California cabin

Ciao Lucia founder Lucy Akin never dreamed of replacing the original pine cladding

Ciao Lucia founder Lucy Akin never dreamed of replacing the original pine cladding

Conceptual art house designer and consultant Shawn Button's home in Los Angeles' Echo Park area is a delightful 1950s-era cabin surrounded by lush vegetation and filled with dreamy bohemian details.

Designed by a queer couple for a queer couple, the home reimagines communal living for the present moment

As soon as Hope Mendes and her husband saw their Cobb, California, cabin, they knew it was the place they’d been searching for—a home they could use for vacations and also list as an Airbnb. “Although it needed a ton of work, overall it had good bones and only required mostly cosmetic work,” Hope writes. “We knew with a little TLC it would become the perfect rustic and charming retreat we had been wanting.”The couple’s goals for their renovation?

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This time each year I find myself craving a cabin escape, somewhere away from Los Angeles, surrounded by trees.

Nestled in an idyllic oak grove in Topanga Canyon, California, this petite, 432-square-foot cabin proves some things truly are timeless. The one-bed, one-bath retreat was originally built in the 1940s and has since been thoughtfully updated with new plumbing, new electric, wide plank floors and new windows. Photo by Jason Christopher Photography for Sotheby’s International Realty.

Trent and Wesley's home-away-from-home is a cozy, Maltby-style log-sided cabin built in 1960, which gives it a quaint, early mid-century charm.

Dotter & Solfjeld Architecture has designed this summer camp inspired cabin set on a heavily wooded site in the town of Ross, California.