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Not all cabins are on water, but not all lakehouses are cabins. Lakehouses are typically just a second home on a lake.
I'd rather have the cabin on the lake.
I'd rather have the cabin on the lake.
There are plenty of cabins not associated with a body of water that people use for hunting or just being a hermit. You can have a cabin on the lake, a cabin on the river, a cabin on the creek, a cabin in the woods. I think the cabin feel is part of it, too, so having a ranch house with painted drywall on the inside is not the same as a cabin. It's a house.
In Wisconsin, where I go fishing every year, it's pretty easily stated and well known up there. A cabin, weather on a lake or in the woods is usually meant to be a log cabin or at least a dwelling built mostly of wood. They have what they call cottages, which is meant as a dwelling, built like a normal house, but usually meant for 3 seasons as they are built on a raised foundation and usually don't have the means to heat the water supply during the winter. Then there is a lake house. These are your typical homes, built on a lake.
At the very least, if you call something a cabin, it should definitely have that woodsy, "cabin" feel. Other than that, it's just a lake house. I have a friend who's family have both a cottage and a cabin. They call the one a cabin and the other the cottage, because the cabin is an original log cabin from the early 1900s built as part of a resort, the cottage is just that, a house on a raised foundation they close down during the winter.
At the very least, if you call something a cabin, it should definitely have that woodsy, "cabin" feel. Other than that, it's just a lake house. I have a friend who's family have both a cottage and a cabin. They call the one a cabin and the other the cottage, because the cabin is an original log cabin from the early 1900s built as part of a resort, the cottage is just that, a house on a raised foundation they close down during the winter.
My parents have a lake house on Lake Panorama.
My grandparents have a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin.
My grandparents have a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin.
Not sure but the preference is a small cabin on a lake that's miles from much else and no other developments.
I equate a lake house to a fancy house on the lake.
I equate a cabin to a simple shelter, with not many divided rooms.
I equate a cabin to a simple shelter, with not many divided rooms.
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For whatever reason, I think mountains when I think cabin. Roughing it, kind of a blue collar type of deal.
Lake house seems swanky and more of a party type of stay. I'd definitely think of a traditional house.
A place down by the river (not a van) also seems more cabiny to me.
Lake house seems swanky and more of a party type of stay. I'd definitely think of a traditional house.
A place down by the river (not a van) also seems more cabiny to me.
I think what we really have here is an issue with what the defining features of a "cabin" are. Structure of the building or surrounding conditions.
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