Get Your Rustic On for Log Cabin Day!

Did you know today is Log Cabin Day? This holiday was started by the Bad Axe Historical Society in Michigan in 1986 and falls on the last Sunday of June each year. I doubt Hallmark is raking it in on this one; the idea behind it is to promote the preservation of log cabins and to return to a simpler time, if just for a day.

Even if you aren’t spending today in a log cabin, unplug (after you read this story), relax and get your rustic on. Pull out the old Lincoln Logs and build one, if the spirit moves you. To celebrate this holiday, I’ve rounded up 10 Houzz Tours of fantastic log cabins all across the U.S. They include the old, the new, the rebuilt and the kit built in a range of styles from traditional to modern and from rustic to luxe.

Simpler times in the Shenandoah Valley. This picturesque cabin looks like it’s been sitting in this Afton, Virginia, field for generations, but it’s actually a new building, assembled with logs from trees felled on the property.


Spartan yet warm interiors help the family escape from their busy lives and unwind on the weekends.

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Reassembling in the mountains of Georgia. This home’s design began with the homeowner’s spying a log cabin for $25,000 in the paper. With help from log cabin restorer Clyde Smith and the architects at Clark & Zook, he turned the original cabin into part of a larger home nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains.


Inside, the house has compressed and wide-open spaces, and the original cabin’s logs and fresh drywall balance old and new.

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Keeping 1920s charm intact in Minnesota. It’s hard to believe that this lakeside cabin had to be taken down to the studs and rebuilt, because all of the professionals involved did such a superb job of maintaining the original look.


Beyond the studs, this spectacular original fieldstone fireplace stood tall during all of the renovations. The rest of the home was rebuilt but maintains the same warm and rugged feeling of the original.

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Stacked above the Little River. This Alabama getaway began with a sketch on a napkin. The owners wanted an authentic rustic look for their weekend retreat.


The furniture inside is a mix of antiques and comfortable upholstered pieces. Rocky Top Log Furniture crafted the bed in the cozy guest room from northern white cedar.

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Ceilings soar in Bend. This Oregon cabin is an outdoorsy couple’s ultimate empty nest. After building it from a kit, they decided to start their own log cabin kit company, Baker Pond Log Works. The ceiling in the front peak is so high that it recently accommodated an 18-foot-high Christmas tree.


This tree trunk in the kitchen holds the plumbing for this faucet.

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Logs lighten up near Ann Arbor. This rustic cabin on Michigan’s Winans Lake is a lovely study in contrast. Walking through the door, one is surprised by the interiors.


Instead of having the expected dark interior, the entire cabin is washed in a very light gray paint. A porch-like dining room enjoys views of the lake and has a spartan Scandinavian feel.

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Teddy Roosevelt style and Al Gore efficiency in Montana. Practically floating over a dive-right-in pond, this Yellowstone Club cabin is full of surprises. Perhaps the largest is that it is platinum LEED certified (the pond serves as a geothermal mass).

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The inside of the cabin is full of reclaimed and repurposed materials, and all of the materials came from within 500 miles of the cabin. The green kitchen cabinets are a repurposed antique hutch, crafted by Integrity Builders of Bozeman, Montana. They help lend the new cabin a sense of age and history.

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A historic one-room cabin in Halfway. The left wing of this rustic Oregon home is a one-room cabin that dates to 1874. It was unearthed within a larger home that was slated for disassembly and demolition. After visiting the demolition site to check out some reclaimed wood, the homeowners decided they wanted the entire cabin. They carefully cataloged each piece and rebuilt the structure as a bedroom within their larger cabin’s design.


The transition is just as clear on the inside as it is on the outside, with the hand-hewn larchwood logs creating a charming rough-hewn accent wall in the family room.


The bedroom is especially cozy thanks to their painstaking work, and the cabin lives on in a new place.

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Superluxe rugged style in Big Sky. This Montana log house is more mansion than cabin, but the interiors have a relaxed rugged style.


It’s a ski-in, ski-out house, so creating intimate spaces for warming up and visiting over hot toddies was a priority. Log and stone walls, large fireplaces and overstuffed furniture make it the ultimate spot in which to unwind.

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A modern take in Wisconsin. For those of you who aren’t big fans of rustic, this deconstructed log cabin may be more up your alley. This home mixes a modern form with rustic log cabin inspiration. Sited along the New Fork River, it didn’t last long as a second home. The couple who had it built loved it so much, they left the city and moved in permanently.


Inside, hand-hewn, square-cut Douglas fir logs reference the modern home’s log cabin inspiration.

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So, enjoy a rocking chair, whittle something, make a corn husk doll or top off your evening with some s’mores by the fire. If don’t want to unplug, stream a Little House on the Prairie marathon. Whatever you decide to do today, have a great Log Cabin Day!

Are you lucky enough to have a cabin getaway? We’d love to see a photo in the Comments section below.

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