Fig. 193.
The sills and heads of
The Window Openings and the head of the door opening should be cased with boards the width of the jambs. If you can secure sash for the windows, hinge them to the inside edges of the jambs as shown in [Fig. 190], and nail a seven-eighths-inch window-stop around the jambs outside of them, to prevent the wind and rain from getting in around the sash (see [Fig. 193]). If sash cannot be obtained, wooden shutters made to fit the opening will do very well, as they can be used at night and whenever you wish to close up the cabin, and when you are within the cabin in the summer you will want the windows open.
After cutting boards of the proper length for
Fig. 194.—The Cabin Door.
The Cabin Door, fasten them together with battens placed at the top, bottom, and centre (see [Fig. 194]). Then hinge the door to the inside of the jamb with either iron strap-hinges or
Wooden Hinges such as are shown in [Fig. 194]. To make a set of wooden hinges, first cut three blocks of wood four or five inches long and nail them to the cabin wall on a line with the three door battens (see A, B, and C in [Fig. 194]). Then prepare three pieces of wood eighteen inches long and two inches wide, and bore a small hole through one end of each, as shown at D in [Fig. 195]. When these have been made, nail them to the door above the battens so that when the door is put in place their ends will rest on blocks A, B, and C. Locate the holes in the eighteen-inch strips upon A, B, and C, and bore holes through the blocks at these points, after which set the door in place and fasten the arms of the hinges to the blocks, either with bolts, as shown in [Fig. 194], or with hardwood pegs cut to fit the holes.