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Bearfort Lodge
http://www.bearfortlodge.com
Bearfort Lodge follows the author’s ruggedly sensual experience of living in an 1890's historic log lodge. The historic lodge started out as a road house back in the late 1890s. It later became a restaurant and tavern and in the 1940s a brothel. Now it is a private home undergoing restoration for the past few years. Bearfort Lodge has become a beacon for log-home lovers who have embarked on the adventure of restoration.
Although endeavors like this can easily be romanticized the author delivers realism with a great sense of humor about the work at hand while offering up resources, how-to and tips for readers embarking on similar projects. Those who are ready to roll up their sleeves can learn how to fix, preserve or replace logs for their cabin, re-glaze and repair old windows, or a myriad of other projects while interior decorating enthusiasts might prefer the photo tour that takes you inside the lodge which is quite amazing. There is a wealth of information at the site.
The author is intuitive with his links, leading the readers to vintage appliances, rustic furnishing and details and even invites us to buy some of his property in the Pocono Mountains.
As a treat, the author teases upcoming projects in the "Coming Soon" on the right sidebar. Those who loved playing with Lincoln Logs as a kid will go nuts when they see the real thing at Bearfort Lodge. The author is also thrilled that he gets visitors who are neither restoring nor building log cabins, "but seem to enjoy my regular posts of experiences of living in a log home, living a rustic lifestyle."
Over the past few years Bearfort Lodge has been the setting for numerous catalogue shoots. You just may see the interior this coming winter in Christmas theme catalogues and television commercials. In addition, the lodge is under consideration for the setting of an independent film and to be used as one of the locations in a major motion picture.
Bearfort Lodge readership has been growing exponentially. Readers frequently email the author with a myriad of restoration questions and he actually answers each one.
