Cabin Porn: Inspiration For Your Quiet Place Somewhere

by Zach Klein

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About this book

Rural escapes for those yearning for a simpler existence, by the creators of the wildly popular tumblr Cabin Porn. Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New York-Cabin Porn began as a scrapbook to collect inspiration for their building projects. As the collection grew, the site attracted a following, which is now a huge and obsessive audience.

The site features photos of the most remarkable handmade homes in the backcountry of America and all over the world. It has had over 10 million unique visitors, with 350,000 followers on Tumblr. Now Zach Klein, the creator of the site (and a co-founder of Vimeo) goes further into the most alluring images from the site and new getaways, including more interior photography and how-to advice for setting up a quiet place somewhere.

With their idyllic settings, unique architecture and cozy interiors, the Cabin Porn photographs, are an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, and feel the beauty and serenity that nature and simple construction can create.

“Inside each of us is a home ready to be built.”

Count Your Coffees

As a long-time fan of the Cabin Porn Tumblr pages, I so much wanted to love this book that I ended up disappointed. Don't get me wrong: it is not a bad book, it is simply not what I thought it was going to be.

In my head, this was going to be a typical coffee table book, but with cabins: large, glossy photos, meant to be picked up now and then. Pure eye-candy.

If it had been just that, this book would be up there with the other 4 and 5 coffee starlets.

Cabin Porn however, suffers from a bit of an identity crisis.

Clearly, it doesn't want to be just another coffee table book and several design choices make that clear early on: a smaller format on non-glossy paper. Not ideal when you want to show off photographs. Instead, the book tells the stories behind the photos: the journeys people undertook to build their cabins, the architectural choices, the community that surrounds it, ...

Again, this doesn't make it a bad book, on the contrary. The photography is still gorgeous and plenty. The stories are informative, sometimes interesting and are well-written and read like a series of articles you might find in a magazine.

Yet, I'm still disappointed, it is not what I hoped it was going to be: eye-candy for my coffee table.

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