Our Story
“They’ve put a lot of thought into creating an homage to the 60/70s. The decor & artistic touches everywhere you look create a truly unique cabin getaway experience.”
Collected, not decorated
Most of the furniture and objects were already in the world before they came here.
They were found at estate sales, thrift stores, antique shops, vintage dealers, local makers, and occasionally in places less likely to provide a receipt. Some pieces needed repair. Others needed only cleaning, a new setting, or someone willing to see a little potential beneath several decades of use.
Very little matches. It works better that way.
The cabin was assembled one chair, lamp, painting, repair, and thrift-store discovery at a time.
The Outdoor Spirt of the 60s & 70s
The spirit and aesthetics of outdoor culture from the 1960s and 1970s continues inside the cabin.
It appears in vintage recreation posters, old maps, camping equipment, practical materials, strong colors, and objects made by people who believed useful things could also be good-looking.
More important, it appears in the way we work on the place.
A lantern becomes a lamp. A quilt becomes a dog-bed cover. Furniture is repaired rather than replaced, and new projects are allowed to show some evidence that a person made them.
We are not trying to recreate 1967. Plenty of the past is best left there.
What interests us is the resourcefulness, informality, and sense of possibility: the idea that getting outside did not require a complete system of specialized equipment, and that an ordinary person with a garage, a sewing machine, or a good set of plans might make something worth keeping.
Camp, craft, and character
The word camp means more to us than a decorating style.
It suggests practical buildings, shared meals, useful objects, bright colors, projects that evolve over time, and places that become more interesting because people keep working on them.
That spirit runs through Camp Juniper.
Signs of Life
We would rather make something with character than make something perfect. That usually means leaving room for the evidence of a person: a hand-painted sign, a slightly crooked line, a repaired edge, or a solution that works because someone cared enough to figure it out. Camp Juniper is full of things made, fixed, adapted, and occasionally improvised. The small imperfections are not really flaws. They are part of what makes the place feel alive.
