42 F isn't that cold. If you wear layers and a hat, and cover your neck and feet, then you won't need a fire. I like the look of cabins--sparse and rustic, yet cozy.

As someone from New England who has lived in a lot of these wooden spaces, these images actually look colder to me than an image of a modern space. Older wood like this is HORRIBLE at insulation, and typically doesn't have much behind it.

Fellow Houstonian here. 42 feels like about 32! I've been shivering all week! Of course now it's back up to 74 and I'm sick and have chapped lips.

Lovely cabin, though! :)

I spent last weekend at my boyfriend's parents' house in Sedona. The living room is the original one-room cabin with a fireplace, two of the bedrooms have wood stoves, and there's a fireplace in the dining room. They don't have city gas lines, so everything is heated with propane and those stoves. Rustic, wide-plank wood floors, timber ceilings, and the ubiquitous cliff-dweller, "adobe" style seen all over Sedona. It's such a beautiful place.

Oh wow, I wish temperatures would be around 40F here in Montreal right now. We're having a warm winter at an average of 10-15F. It's usually around -20 at this time of the year.

That being said, I'd live in a cabin anytime. Pics 6&7 = YES PLEASE !

Weather in the 40s is not that cold. But I also get cold easily.

Love these pictures, but the one with the beds up under the eaves is COLD AS HELL! Have you ever been in a place like that when it was cold? There's no insulation, and you are right next to the wall & ceiling. Brr!

My fav is #4!

Sure, a building's insulation affects how occupants feel indoors when it's 42 F outdoors even more than their attire does. If Houston homes aren't built to keep out cold because cold's rarely a problem, then 42 F may well feel like 32 F. OTOH, southern homes built to resist summer wind storms and heat coincidentally also may resist a rare cold spell well.

This is hilarious - my husband just told me this morning that we were having a 'heat wave' because the temperature was supposed to up to 42 today. We're in New England.

I know when you aren't used to it, it can feel really cold and houses here are equipped to handle cold in a way that southern houses aren't. All these cabins, though lovely, look to me like they're uninsulated, not centrally heated and dark - iow not constructed for Northern weather.

But they seem like they'd be a great place to spend the summer.

Many of these spaces look insulated, judging by the depth of the wall. Look at the sills for the window and it's fairly apparent.

I don't think they look particularly warm, but they do conjure up some cozy memories.

@STEPANKA

Sing it, sister. I'm in Quebec City, and 42 degrees would be positively balmy.

Cold is relative. I used to live in Massachusetts and Colorado, and now that I live in Texas I find 40 to be pretty darned cold. We had 90 days of temps over 100 this past summer in Austin...so acclimating to 40 can be tough!

Lovely. #6 has the exact same feel to me as the beginning of the Holocene music video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWcyIpul8OE