No wide-angle tricks and no empty-house staging. This is what the cabin looks like when somebody's staying in it.
Living room
The living room's stone fireplace with a gray sectional and leather sofa under the pine wallsThe stone fireplace and mounted TV, with a wooden game board on the table in frontThe great room with the loft rail above the stone fireplace and the sectional belowThe living room seen from above, with tall windows and a candle-style chandelierThe great room. Everybody ends up in here.A gray sectional with plaid pillows in the great room, the dining table and lantern pendants behind itA cream armchair and a leather sofa beneath a tall window in the pine-walled living roomA screen door in the pine wall opening onto the porch and a mountain view
Full kitchen
Full kitchen, real pots.The kitchen counter looking across to the dining table and the fireplaceTwo wine glasses and a bottle of Linville Falls Winery wine on the dining tableThe bar, which is where people actually stand.
Dining area
The farmhouse dining table under black lantern pendantsThe dining table and bench under two lantern pendants, windows behindThe dining table under black lantern pendants beside windows looking into the treesA wooden dining table with a live-edge centerpiece under two lantern pendants
Bedroom 1
The main bedroom bed with white bedding and a blue bolster between swing-arm lampsThe main bedroom bed facing windows that look out to the mountainsA bedroom window framing a mountain peak, with an Adirondack chair on the deck outsideThe main bedroom corner with framed prints, chevron curtains and a window onto the deck
Bedroom 2
Second bedroom, under the slope of the roof.
Full bathroom 1
The other bathroom, with a green patterned shower curtain, a white sink and a wood-framed mirror
Full bathroom 2
One of the two baths.
Deck
The covered porch, for the days it rains anyway.The fire table, about the time the sun goes.The new deck with the fire table and chairs, perched on posts above a hillside of red and orange fall leavesTwo Adirondack chairs and the fire table on the deck, facing the ridgesA bar-height table and chairs on the deck above the valleyThe open deck beside the stone chimney, with picnic tables and long-range Blue Ridge views under a clear skyThe deck. Chairs already pointed the right way.A corner of the new pine deck under a big sky of clouds over the blue ridges
Exterior
The roofline, from above.The cabin's green roof and covered porch seen from the wooded yard through rhododendronWhat you look at all day.Sunset over layered ridgelines from the cabinDeck chairs and the fire table at dusk with the ridges beyondThe cabin from the walk up.The side of the log cabin with a path through the treesFrom down in the trees.The gate at the top of the road.
Additional photos
A tall stack of board games, Clue, Sorry! and more, beside an antler on a shelf