TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hutchison,Patrick
TI  - Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
SN  - 9781250285706
AV  - TH4816 .H88 2024
U1  - 690/.80286 23/eng/20240819
PY  - 0000///December 032024///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Hutchison, Pat
KW  - Cascade Mountains, Washington State
KW  - local
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - Washington (State)
KW  - Remodeling
KW  - Log cabins
KW  - Maintenance and repair
KW  - Craftsman
KW  - Homes and haunts
KW  - Wooden-frame houses
N1  - Includes index; new book 2025 spring
N2  - "A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece. Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's an address, for a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn't know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he's a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over 7 years or renovations. CABIN is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story; of a place, of possibilities, and of the process of renovation, of seeing what could be instead of what is. It is a book for those who know what it's like to bite off more than you can chew, or who desperately wish to"--
ER  -