Why Outdoor Log Furniture?
The reason I was attracted to this project was a lifelong appreciation for wood and the simpler times when craftsmen hewed logs into log cabins and also to log cabin furniture. With a few simple tools, they made what they needed with what they had. Today’s rustic cabin furniture has come a long way. Many of today’s log furniture craftsmen are truly artisans and I appreciate their craft, but I am new to this and so I started out with a few simple projects, instead of artistic expressions. My first project involved taking the cut ends from a large tree that I had felled the previous year and simply adding legs to those to make two tables to be used as outdoor furniture. My goal was simple, build two tables for use on our patio that could withstand the weather, the kids and a couple of retrievers, and finish them enough so that my wife could not unknowingly say she mistook them for firewood. In our house things that don’t gibe with Mrs. Jones’ taste have a bad habit of disappearing or mee
