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Cabin Porn Inside
First an online phenomenon and now a bestseller with more than 300,000 copies in print worldwide, Cabin Porn has become a powerful lifestyle movement that is synonymous with unplugging from a tech-obsessed world to find peace amid nature. Startups, homes, and even housing developments have all been inspired by the original book.
In this hotly anticipated extension of the Cabin Porn series, the creators give their fans what they ask for most: a look inside the most beloved cabins they have featured over the past ten years.
Cabin Porn: Inside is the definitive guide for the cabin builder, as well as anyone seeking perspective on how to create spaces that just work--the ones that spellbind us in their warmth and ingenious simplicity.
In this hotly anticipated extension of the Cabin Porn series, the creators give their fans what they ask for most: a look inside the most beloved cabins they have featured over the past ten years.
Cabin Porn: Inside is the definitive guide for the cabin builder, as well as anyone seeking perspective on how to create spaces that just work--the ones that spellbind us in their warmth and ingenious simplicity.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2019
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October 13, 2019
I was immediately inspired to go buy some land and put a cool little cabin on it borrowing heaps of cool ideas from this book.
Oh no, I'm a millenial, guess splurging on the book will have to be enough.
Oh no, I'm a millenial, guess splurging on the book will have to be enough.
April 12, 2020
Nice picture-book of, well, little cabins the world around. If you've ever thought about a vacation cabin in the mountains or by the sea -- or even just for an affordable place to live -- this is the book for you!
Here's the website, apparently the source of the houses/cabins/shacks/houseboats in the book(s): https://cabinporn.com/
Since you won't be getting a copy out of your local library anytime soon, this is the obvious place to start. I recognize some of these places from this book, and presume some of the others are in the first book, which I haven't seen. You'll get a good sense of what's in the book by exploring the website, and some of the links. Have fun!
The cabins were mostly owner-built, mostly by young people. As it happens, I've had a good deal of experience with this sort of building -- and used to daydream about building one. Not anymore! Though we are currently living in an owner-built cottage on the Central Coast of Calif. We bought it from the wife and builder, after her husband passed away. The place is holding up pretty well, 45 years on. We've owned three other owner-built homes over the years, in New Mexico and Arizona. Only one, an adobe in New Mexico, wasn't a success -- pretty slapdash construction. We owned a rammed-earth place in the Verde Valley of Arizona and it was *great*. Almost 3 acres, a view of the red rocks -- and a prehistoric (and still flowing) acequia crossed our property! And a big, rambling mountain cabin that might have been our prettiest house -- but dear Lord! The amount of work it took to finish it! A divorce house, and the man could never finish *anything*, sfaict.
All of the owner-builders pictured in the book (if memory serves) were whites of European ancestry, except for a couple of Japanese. Cabins were located the world around -- there's even one in northern Greenland, 850 mi south of the North Pole! Most are in the UK, the USA, and western Europe.
Here's the website, apparently the source of the houses/cabins/shacks/houseboats in the book(s): https://cabinporn.com/
Since you won't be getting a copy out of your local library anytime soon, this is the obvious place to start. I recognize some of these places from this book, and presume some of the others are in the first book, which I haven't seen. You'll get a good sense of what's in the book by exploring the website, and some of the links. Have fun!
The cabins were mostly owner-built, mostly by young people. As it happens, I've had a good deal of experience with this sort of building -- and used to daydream about building one. Not anymore! Though we are currently living in an owner-built cottage on the Central Coast of Calif. We bought it from the wife and builder, after her husband passed away. The place is holding up pretty well, 45 years on. We've owned three other owner-built homes over the years, in New Mexico and Arizona. Only one, an adobe in New Mexico, wasn't a success -- pretty slapdash construction. We owned a rammed-earth place in the Verde Valley of Arizona and it was *great*. Almost 3 acres, a view of the red rocks -- and a prehistoric (and still flowing) acequia crossed our property! And a big, rambling mountain cabin that might have been our prettiest house -- but dear Lord! The amount of work it took to finish it! A divorce house, and the man could never finish *anything*, sfaict.
All of the owner-builders pictured in the book (if memory serves) were whites of European ancestry, except for a couple of Japanese. Cabins were located the world around -- there's even one in northern Greenland, 850 mi south of the North Pole! Most are in the UK, the USA, and western Europe.
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March 21, 2022Read this while van camping because it was in the van. Really REALLY gorgeous photos, and some enjoyable essays too!
July 2, 2022
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A feast for the eyes, a balm for the soul. Take a mental vacation friends and pick up some Cabin Porn.
A feast for the eyes, a balm for the soul. Take a mental vacation friends and pick up some Cabin Porn.
January 12, 2022
The title is appropriate
August 28, 2021
This book makes me want to build a cabin or shanty boat. Beautiful photography and backstories about who built each cabin, how and why. The contents are actually broader than just cabins, there is a boat, earth ship, camping van, trailer, etc but they fit seamlessly into the concept of “living structure made out of mostly wood”.
This is more than a coffee table book. It’s a dive into a DIY lifestyle and subculture. The shanty boat sticks with me, since the person who made it, made it with minimal knowledge on boat building and built it with very few costs. He bought a book on boat construction, made a design and then used found and recycled supplies, like wood from a chicken coop. It sounds like something from a storybook and not in real life. It’s almost utopian how ordinary people just decide to get up and build their own homes.
This is more than a coffee table book. It’s a dive into a DIY lifestyle and subculture. The shanty boat sticks with me, since the person who made it, made it with minimal knowledge on boat building and built it with very few costs. He bought a book on boat construction, made a design and then used found and recycled supplies, like wood from a chicken coop. It sounds like something from a storybook and not in real life. It’s almost utopian how ordinary people just decide to get up and build their own homes.
February 21, 2020
Pair Cabin Porn with great memories and emerging Spring weather and you get an irresistible pull to rent or visit a cabin. This collection showcases small-scale cabins folks have built around the world. Beautiful photographs and descriptions assembled inside a tactile pleasure ship (the paper, color saturation, and cover... mmm).
January 8, 2020
Je to krásné, všechny vychytávky chci mít zase u svojí chalupy a u krbu (taky na chalupě) se to četlo krásně, fotky jsou nádherné, interiéry inspirující, ale podle mě "Za dveřmi" nedosahuje kvalit prvního dílu. V prvním díle byly kapitoly o domečcích "logické" - vždy jeden příběh a pak ukázky chat, které spojovalo nějaké téma... Tady je příběh chaty a pak jsou ukázky náhodně uspořádané, marně jsem hledala nějaký pojící prvek. Taky se mi zdá, že víc než chaty jsou tam "tiny houses", ale je to teď trendy, chápu. A možná mi ani neseděla čeština.
April 28, 2020
I never tire of looking at photos of cabins/cottages/tiny homes. Small spaces have always appealed to me. As one of the cabin dwellers featured in this book said, living in a small space requires you to really think about needs vs wants. You just don't have space for much if any extraneous "stuff". So many of the cabins featured here were made from reclaimed materials and designed/built with the goal of fitting into the setting where they were built. This book is real eye candy :)
June 19, 2020
Whole lotta cabins, but a distinct lack of porn... 🤔
Nice coffee table book of cabins with a little info on each one. Good inspiration book?
Nice coffee table book of cabins with a little info on each one. Good inspiration book?
March 5, 2024
as if I waited like five years to read the second one but anyway chef kiss as usual
April 10, 2025
Not really impressed with the cabins featured in the book.
The text was very small and hard to read.
The text was very small and hard to read.
December 19, 2022
I'm amazed by these designs. I had a great time reading this book.
July 5, 2023
I love cabins. I really do. Through naivete, desire for isolation since the pandemic, countless hours of Bon Iver, and the weird urge to be a creator, I've fallen in love with the idea of a cabin. The practical side bothers me a little - after all, I'm one of the least practical people I've ever known. But everybody has to start somewhere, I presume, and I'm just starting a couple of years behind. So all is okay.
This book is awesome. It introduces you to, well, cabins. And stories. Stories about cabins. Stories about people living in cabins. Stories about opportunities of you getting to live in cabins. That sort of stuff.
So I loved it. I'm glad it's in my shelf back home now. I read it two years ago at a cabin I went to by myself in the middle of more or less nowhere. It was one of the best days of my life.
This book is awesome. It introduces you to, well, cabins. And stories. Stories about cabins. Stories about people living in cabins. Stories about opportunities of you getting to live in cabins. That sort of stuff.
So I loved it. I'm glad it's in my shelf back home now. I read it two years ago at a cabin I went to by myself in the middle of more or less nowhere. It was one of the best days of my life.
May 30, 2020
Book #2 in this series is better than the first. A wonderful backstory of how this book and the images within came to be. Truly AWESOME. Go to their website or simply BUY the book to learn more.
A terrific coffee table read. Wonderful ice breaker for when friends come over. I of course read it on a Sunday morning with the window open, while it was raining, with the fire going. But hey, that's me.
But nonetheless, highly recommended "for your viewing pleasure."
A terrific coffee table read. Wonderful ice breaker for when friends come over. I of course read it on a Sunday morning with the window open, while it was raining, with the fire going. But hey, that's me.
But nonetheless, highly recommended "for your viewing pleasure."
December 23, 2019
Latest installment in the Cabin Porn series, I sure hope there is more to come. Good inspiration for vacation homes and private oasis. Beautiful photos of interiors, makes you feel cozy, relaxed and zen just browsing through.
March 26, 2020
Was at least hoping they'd talk through a little more on the decision-making or design and build process, but most just have short blurbs of "this is a simple structure in a forest that so-and-so uses to unplug".
Pretty pictures, though. Would make an okay coffee table book.
Pretty pictures, though. Would make an okay coffee table book.
October 17, 2019
If you like the idea of secluded cabins then this is sure to get your heart racing!
December 22, 2020
This is a booking for day dreaming and the most grounded way. Equal parts inspirational and attainable, it quietly begs its readers the simplify and reconnect with nature.
August 31, 2021
Interesting volume of cabins, tinies, and otherwise small dwellings. My fave was the Fire Tower!
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March 14, 2022Zach Klein, who publishes the Cabin Porn website, where people around the world can submit pictures of their cabins, published a book called Cabin Porn. Some people said, “Yeah, that’s great, but what do the cabins look like on the inside?” Thus, this sequel.
Like the original, there were some stories that were treated in more depth, with a multipage spread, and others are just touched on briefly. One improvement on the original is that in the original, the non-featured cabins were just annotated with name and location and nothing more. In Cabin Porn Inside, every cabin is given at least a little background.
One criticism of the original was that the featured cabin builders all seemed to be white men (with beards). This one has some more variety, with more women builders, and more people from other countries.
There is a great variety of cabins. This book includes a houseboat, a caravan on a trailer, a giant birdhouse in the forest, a shelter in a Greek field for resting out of the hot sun, a straw bale earth house, a fire tower, a prefabricated shelter dropped by helicopter into the Russian arctic.
Although this book is supposed to feature interiors, it also shows the exteriors, and inside or outside, there never seem to be enough pictures. And like Cabin Porn Original, the main takeaway is inspiration. If any part of you has ever wanted to have your own quiet place somewhere, prepare to start daydreaming. Because you will.
Also I would like to say that I was impressed (perhaps shocked) at the number of cabin dwellers who sleep in loft beds without bed rails, and without rolling off into the living room below. I would also like to say that they didn’t make the print any bigger. Even with my bifocals on I was straining to read those captions. Come on, guys. Not everyone who is interested in cabins is 20 something.
Like the original, there were some stories that were treated in more depth, with a multipage spread, and others are just touched on briefly. One improvement on the original is that in the original, the non-featured cabins were just annotated with name and location and nothing more. In Cabin Porn Inside, every cabin is given at least a little background.
One criticism of the original was that the featured cabin builders all seemed to be white men (with beards). This one has some more variety, with more women builders, and more people from other countries.
There is a great variety of cabins. This book includes a houseboat, a caravan on a trailer, a giant birdhouse in the forest, a shelter in a Greek field for resting out of the hot sun, a straw bale earth house, a fire tower, a prefabricated shelter dropped by helicopter into the Russian arctic.
Although this book is supposed to feature interiors, it also shows the exteriors, and inside or outside, there never seem to be enough pictures. And like Cabin Porn Original, the main takeaway is inspiration. If any part of you has ever wanted to have your own quiet place somewhere, prepare to start daydreaming. Because you will.
Also I would like to say that I was impressed (perhaps shocked) at the number of cabin dwellers who sleep in loft beds without bed rails, and without rolling off into the living room below. I would also like to say that they didn’t make the print any bigger. Even with my bifocals on I was straining to read those captions. Come on, guys. Not everyone who is interested in cabins is 20 something.
January 11, 2022
I'm one of those people who reads coffee table books cover to cover. I like to understand the thinking behind the projects, and the process of completing them. Like most people who read the first Cabin Porn book, I enjoyed it, but was disappointed that we didn't get to look inside the cabins. This book takes us inside, at least a little, and on the whole I thought the cabins and locations in this sequel were largely better than the first book. There were still chapters which left out what should have been obvious photos; for example, the fire lookout appears to have had stunning views, but they aren't shown to us. Why show us a cabin built from a lookout tower, and not show us what it looks out at? That aside, I enjoyed reading this book.
January 24, 2024
Another wild home winner with inside views
Cabin Porn #2! The first book focused on the outside views with very limited pictures of the insides of the wild little cabins. I love to see the insides of homes, so this second version was my favorite…it shows outside views but this book focuses on the indoors. I really through it rapidly…couldn’t put it down…and savored the photos. Most of these little homes appeared stark, but some were more colorful. But I enjoyed viewing them all and reading about their owners and how they came to be. Again, all very unique; and I loved the fact that both books cover homes in many different countries and different areas of the US as well.
Cabin Porn #2! The first book focused on the outside views with very limited pictures of the insides of the wild little cabins. I love to see the insides of homes, so this second version was my favorite…it shows outside views but this book focuses on the indoors. I really through it rapidly…couldn’t put it down…and savored the photos. Most of these little homes appeared stark, but some were more colorful. But I enjoyed viewing them all and reading about their owners and how they came to be. Again, all very unique; and I loved the fact that both books cover homes in many different countries and different areas of the US as well.
November 30, 2023
Nenechte se zmást, že jde jen o "prohlížecí" knížku. Stejně jako v prvním díle je kniha protkaná příběhy, popisy, jak která stavba vznikala, vysvětlivkami k použitým technikám a materiálům a samozřejmě plná krásných fotek. Můj vnitřní Bořek stavitel jásá, já to prostě miluju a hrozně ráda se k těmhle typům knih vracím a maluju si, jak si jednou takovou oázu sama postavím a odpoutám se od společnosti.)
June 13, 2024
Just fancy peoples houses, no soul, no anything behind most of them. As I remember, none of those little cosy things were made for having families in it, which could have made them so much more interesting when it comes to "what for" criteria. Pity, since there are plenty of small, cosy cottages around the world hosting whole families - cottages, that could give you so much more history and families, that could give you examples of alternatives to the current mainstream lifestyles.
February 16, 2021
Wonderful photos, great back stories. Some are detailed and some are simple stories. Will make you want to go in the woods and build a cabin. (running water would be a must for me, but it’s not for everyone)
Recommended For: Anyone interesting in cabins, simple living, or beautiful coffee table worthy pictures.
Recommended For: Anyone interesting in cabins, simple living, or beautiful coffee table worthy pictures.
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November 11, 2019Sigh.
December 29, 2019
I have a new and sudden desperate need for a cabin.
March 18, 2020
Yes! I loved this! I am ready to buy a plot of land in Colorado and build my tiny home. Every dwelling and write up were inspiring.
June 4, 2020
Always a pleasure.
New suggestion: Cabin Porn Crafts - how do people effectively organise their cabin in relation to their hobby / craft?
New suggestion: Cabin Porn Crafts - how do people effectively organise their cabin in relation to their hobby / craft?
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