A lesson in progression . . OR . . . how not to look like you live in a log cabin.

This is the interior of the cabin I call 'The Main Cabin', the one featured in the title bar of this blog.
This is how the inside looked shortly after I started to take it down and after I had removed 15 inches or so of cow manure.

What is real neat about this picture is that you can see four different ages of the interior of a log home development.

First of course is the bare logs and chinking. And in a couple of places you can see some old chinking between the logs.

Second, and the first effort to try and hide the fact that this was a log home, was a simple white wash over the logs and chinking, which was also almost like a plaster and could be somewhat leveled.

Thirdly, to the left of the photo you can see lathes that would have held plaster at one time. Plaster can still be seen between the lathes.

And lastly, or fourthly, you can see the blue wainscoting covering everything.

 In these next two photos you can see how completely the blue wainscoting covered the first floor around the stairs . . . .


(Here you can see on the blue wall under the window, where some of the blue paint is missing, how deep the cow poop was.) (Also interesting is that you can see the logs going up the stairs have had no treatment at all. That is because there was a door and the logs would not have been seen.)

. .  and windows, doors and ceiling.

The second story remained true to the original, bare logs and chinking.