a cabin with a wall of windows

In 2012, Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz quit their jobs and set off to build a glass cabin (a cabin with a wall of windows) in the mountains of West Virginia. Nick is a photographer who specializes in tintypes taken with a camera he made himself. Lilah is a designer. She has made several clothing lines. “We were sitting on the exact spot where the house is now, and we started dreaming about how amazing it would be to watch sunsets from there, but how you would have to have a giant window to really get the full picture. Then that naturally turned into an idea and a sketch on a scrap of paper of a house with a whole wall of windows,” Horwitz explained. “We had really only known each other for a couple months, so at the time it seemed like a fantasy, but it was less than a year later when we started to build.” In July 2012, the couple, both local artists, left their jobs to do just that.

The couple collected their windows over a couple of weeks driving and exploring the U.S. Horwitz said their only requirements were that each window had to be different, and that they had to be cheap or free. “We collected most of the windows on a trip up to New York,” she said. Less than six months later, in December 2012, Olson and Horwitz finished the cabin, complete with elaborate window wall.

[Ref.] http://thirdcoastdaily.com/2013/11/one-creative-milwaukee-couple-finds-inspiration-in-a-house-of-glass/

[Ref.] http://inthralld.com/2013/08/charming-window-built-home-in-west-virginia/

[Ref.] http://www.halfcuttea.com/videos/nick-olson-lilah-horwitz/