A renovated cabin shows it's new covered porch, built with thick pine logs and honey pine railings to match. The balusters are round, straight black metal pickets. There are three steps up to the deck. Skirting is below the deck. Green metal roof.

Cariboo Cabin Addition

Construction of an open back porch which is a side deck. Large pine posts hold the structure solidly. Lake side in BC's Cariboo.

What began in 1979 as a simple 20’ x 24’ cabin with a loft (and no bathroom!) has now been reimagined with a 37’ x 12’ rear addition and loft, expanding it into a comfortable 1,100+ sq ft cabin designed for multigenerational holiday living.

Small cabin with lake view is about to start a landscape project in the Cariboo before the construction for the renovation begins. 100 Mile House cabin lake front property. Renovation Construction Cabin in the Cariboo.
Lake front cabin property undergoing new construction: an addition. Two new walls have been framed as construction is underway in BCs Cariboo region. Cabin in the woods gets an addition on the back of the cabin.
Main floor construction of an addition on a cabin is underway. Framing of lumber and plywood are attached on the back of a cabin. The peak of the old build is visible and the anticipation of the new loft is anticipated as that is what is missing.
The framing is nearly complete for this cabin addition. The plywood walls and skeleton of the roof is complete. Next up the final plywood, wrap and finishing materials.

The Design

The image below shows the original main floor layout and the new structure attached to the back, protruding on either side to take advantage of the lake views.

2D plan of the original cabin footprint along with the addition. The cabin is square-like and has a yellow outline indicating it's build. Adjacent is the addition, rectangular in shape and outlined in green to show the new part of the cabin build.

The intent of the addition was first and foremost to have an indoor bathroom. A composting toilet would be the plumbing option for the toilet. The next idea was to bump out the space at the end of the 24’ run, in order to create a room with a view to the lake. The original plan was for the bathroom to go in the old principal bedroom (the “mudroom” in the plan above), but after a number of designs we opted to put the bathroom away from the main cabin and enter through the entry and into the mudroom and then into the cabin. By changing this in the design, it allowed for another flex space which was then decided to make into a guest bedroom. The new space overall is just a little over 1100sqft, which is still not a large space for multigenerational living, but now every bedroom provides a comfortable bed to sleep in, and there is an indoor bathroom! so no bats can sneak in late at night. Bye bye to indoor curious bats.

Cabin addition on a lakefront property in the woods in the Cariboo area of BC. The addition is rectangular with a covered side porch on the left, windows to a bathroom and bedrooms are centred on the build. To the right is the extended right bedroom.
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