Olle Lundberg’s Cabin | View it here

Whoa. Check out the pool/water tank…this cabin by Olle Lundberg of Lundberg Design is the perfect example of how a little elbow grease and a lot of creative thinking (and, uh, also some money) can make a delightful weekend home.

The pool is an old wooden water tank – 25 feet in diameter and 14 feet deep – from a cattle ranch one of his clients bought. “She was ready to bulldoze it, but I told her she couldn’t,” Mr. Lundberg said. “So I took it.”

He considered hiring a helicopter to deliver it to his property, “but we were worried about the wind,” Mr. Lundberg said. So he took it apart and trucked it to his cabin in pieces.

About 5 of the tank’s 150 slats had holes in them, and Mr. Lundberg replaced them with pieces of redwood used in wine tanks at a nearby winery. “When we swam in the pool the first year it smelled like cabernet,” he said.
…Aside from his original purchase, his only cost was materials, which came to about $150,000, Mr. Lundberg said; to have the cabin built would have cost roughly $750,000, he estimated.

Mr. Lundberg has built most of the cabin himself, but his staff has contributed plenty of work. Three or four times a year, Mr. Lundberg holds “building parties,” in which employees help Mr. Lundberg with tasks like pouring the foundation, putting up wood framing and installing windows.

It may sound like forced labor, but it’s accompanied by kegs of beer and golf outings, and Mr. Lundberg and Ms. Breuer make the cabin available to employees when they aren’t using it. - Raul A. Barreneche

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(I think I’ve spied that interior fireplace/living room in one of DWR’s product placement shots too…but I can’t remember which one)

[posted by katie on July 15, 2008 at 5:49 pm. Copyright BLTD LLC, 2008.]

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