Cabinology (CABINS) Encore with Dale Mulfinger

The time is right to revisit cabins: Log cabins, woodsy getaways, A-frame cuties, cottages, tiny homes, lake houses. WE GET INTO IT, including 2024 updates. World famous Minnesota architect, author, professional cabinologist and human delight Dale Mulfinger sits down to discuss everything from what makes a cabin a cabin, to why we bond better surrounded by wood, Scandinavian hygge-ness, where to situate windows, cabin history, horror flicks and vacation activities. Alie sits there starry-eyed and stammers a bunch because she's so excited.

Listen via Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Podbay, Podcast Addict, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

More on Dale Mulfinger

SALA Architects on Instagram

Buy Dale's books on Bookshop.org and Amazon

Donations went to: Clarence Wigington Minority Architectural Scholarship & The Slave Dwelling Project


Links to things we discussed: 

Vertical cabins

Plank houses of the Pacific Northwest

Calculations on second homes in Minnesota

Lodgeology: generations of a bunch of no-good mischief 

“On Golden Pond” trailer

Katherine Hepburn is all about the loons. 

Scary Movie aka “cabin in the woods movie”

Dick Preonke is …  “Alone in the Wilderness”

Visit Chez Dick: Preonke’s cabin still stands in Alaska

Phil & Silja: hygge as heck

Watch Simone Giertz mod her Tesla 3 into a Truckla 

Affordable tiny homes also a Great Dane in an RV house

How do you say “sauna?”

More on Dale’s background

“Native American Log Cabins of the SouthEast” book

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s exhibit on plantation slave cabins

A man visits slave cabins and hosts campouts to educate about American history

Better batteries: Thanks, Ireland!


Other episodes you may enjoy:

Indigenous Cuisinology (NATIVE FOODS)

Domicology (ABANDONED BUILDINGS)

Bisonology (BUFFALO)

Oneirology (DREAMS)

Xylology (LUMBER)

Dendrology (TREES)

Sciuridology (SQUIRRELS)

Ursinology (BEARS)

Nassology (TAXIDERMY)

Acaropathology (TICKS & LYME DISEASE)


Ologies info:

Sponsors of Ologies

Transcripts and bleeped episodes

Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes

Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month

OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, hoodies, totes!

Follow Ologies on Instagram and Bluesky

Follow Alie Ward on Instagram and TikTok

Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris

Additional 2024 Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jake Chaffee

Managing Director: Susan Hale

Scheduling Producer: Noel Dilworth 

Transcripts by Aveline Malek

Website by Kelly R. Dwyer

Theme song by Nick Thorburn

CultureAlie Ward