Here’s this week’s rustic log-cabin/home-appropriate eBay find: pine cone shower hooks.
Yes, now you can bring the great outdoors (or at least hand-painted resin replicas of the great outdoors) into your bathroom. A nice touch for that authentic log cabin feel, doncha think? Though one does wonder what kind of shower curtain goes with pine cone hooks…. something woodsy, no doubt.
If you like rustic furniture, you can do your whole bedroom in log or pine furnishings, from bed to side tables to dressers. This dresser goes beyond rustic with its antler drawer handles.
Made from pine, the piece measures 48 ½H x 24D x 41W and costs just under $1,000. (Hey, you didn’t think antlers came cheap, did you?) Part of the “Mountain Series,” the dresser is available from Great Lakes Rustics.
If you’ve built your log home in a remote location–or at least one surrounded with trees, a lake, mountains, etc–you’ll probably want to spend lots of time outdoors enjoying your view. This means you need some good outdoor furniture. Maybe you even want something built with logs to continue the loggy theme into your outdoor living area. Now you can find lots of log furniture, but there isn’t too much out there designed to appeal to sports fans.
That’s why this rocking chair made from logs and skis is pretty unique. Couldn’t you just imagine it on the patio, or perhaps even inside by the fireplace, in a mountain cabin near a ski resort?
Offered by Northline Express, the rocking chair is made from creamy white Canadian Cedar and recycled sports gear. You can get the piece online for $350.
There’s just no limit to the accessories out there for log cabin owners. Of course, you have to be into the rustic wilderness-saluting items to dig something like this Black Bear Lodge toilet bowl cleaner and brush holder. It’s certainly not for everyone. It is, however, a way to hide a toilet brush in plain sight.
The brush holder is disguised as a cute little bear that is holding its nose and hugging a tree stump. It’s designed to make scrubbing the potty more “bearable” (I swear I stole that joke from the product description…. it’s not mine. Really…).
The bear brush is available from Amazon for $22:
What rustic log home would be complete without rustic knick-knacks? Here’s one that is actually functional. This Western-style napkin holder can adorn your table where everybody can grab a wipe when they need one, or it could sit on your desk in your home office as a letter organizer. (That’s what the folks over at AJ Treasures say anyway…. I don’t know, does anyone actually get letters any more in this e-mail age?)
Regardless, the die-cut-metal, stag-and-tree holder only costs $4.50, so it’s one rustic accessory that won’t break the bank.
While there are plenty of log homes and cabins up in the mountains, log dwellings are popular in lakeside and seaside locations too. If you’ve got a fisherman (or fisherwoman) in the family, and you’d like to decorate your home with some related decor, you could have fun choosing light switch plates that reflect the family’s tastes.
These jumping fish plates from Fishin’ Online will certainly put you in the mood to go out and toss a line in the lake. The hand-crafted, hand-painted plates start at $26, and you can get them for whatever kind of switches are on your walls.
Usually when you see log furniture, it makes you think rustic thoughts, but the Mongolian long-haired fur and Asian-inspired curved wood in this piece gives it a more modern and polished edge. Designed by Milan-based Patricia Urquiola, the solid beech armchair comes varnished or you can get it lacquered in black or orange. Of course, it’ll likely be more expensive than the log chair Billy Bob from down the street can make you using nothing but an axe…
