Furniture Design Ideas

This type can range from the primitive pioneer-type cabin made of rough logs to more sophisticated versions where the logs are machined to fit together snugly and present a more finished and weatherproofed result. The rustic, primitive varieties will fit better into more remote, forested locations. Logs can also be laid horizontally on top of […]

Where several cabins are to be built as part of a commercial venture, where they are rented to people on holiday or vacation, their siting becomes more complex. A comprehensive site layout plan is needed. As with campgrounds, the cabins should normally be dispersed around the site and accessed from one or more loop roads. […]

The next type of overnight accommodation to be considered is the cabin or chalet. Their layout and design should combine some of the elements of the various buildings so far discussed in this book together with many aspects related to campground design. This section will concentrate on the position and layout of a site, and […]

In order to demonstrate some of the design concepts and principles described above it is useful to look at a recent example. Like so much recreation design in recent times it involves major refurbishment and reconstruction rather than a completely new development. Lost Lake Campground started life a long time ago in 1916. Prior to […]

Like other forms of recreation, as many camping areas as possible should be designed to be barrier free and offer universal access. This is easy on flatter sites, where tent pitches or trailer-parking areas can be on the same level as the paths, picnic tables, fires and other facilities. On more sloping sites a proportion […]

Fire equipment, disposal points for water, chemicals and rubbish, maps of spur and numbering layout, phones, bulletin boards and other signs and artefacts are usually needed. All of this can be unsightly if not designed to look simple, unified and in keeping with the setting. The sites for such artefacts should be chosen where they […]

Instead of tents, wooded sites can be equipped with open-fronted camping shelters. These are constructed from timber with asymmetrically pitched roofs. They have a wooden floor, and are raised off the ground. In front of the open side is placed the campfire. In the USA these are often called ‘Adirondack’ shelters after their origins in […]

The tent area is accessed by car from a loop road. Each pitch is provided with a parking spur. Next to this is a tent area, a picnic table and a fireplace. In the most primitive type the pitch can be an open space, a little distance from the car, cleared of stumps and stones, […]

The sites should be laid out so that access roads in the form of loops have pitches set alongside them num bered with marker posts. The trailers or RVs are then reversed onto the grass at right angles or obliquely to the road at set distances. Where required, the area can be subdivided by trees […]

The ground needs to be level, reasonably smooth and with a good dense grassy sward. The soil should be freely draining, relatively easy to drive tent pegs into, and unlikely to stay wet or become muddy. Noise insulation is non-existent in tents, so some physical separation between pitches is desirable. Unless tentpitches are marked in […]