About
Fun Hideaways started in 2014 as a shared notebook. The three of us were finishing up a long restoration on a 1940s forest-service cabin and a friend asked if we knew anywhere else like it to stay. We did. We'd been working on places like that for the better part of a decade. So we wrote them down.
People kept asking. The notebook turned into a binder. The binder turned into this directory. We never planned to run a business, and in the sense that most people mean, we don't. We do carpentry. The directory is what's left over.
A property gets on the list when one of us has personally worked on it or spent enough nights in it to know what's wrong with it. We don't list anything we wouldn't send a tired friend to. Nothing gets boosted. Nothing pays to be here.
No resort cabins. No hot tubs with bluetooth. No places where the owner has never swung a hammer on the building. If a listing gets rented out to a management company, it comes off the list the same week.
Framer. Started on barn raises in the late nineties. Keeps the master list. Writes most of the listings.
Finish work and roofing. Can tell you whether a flashing job was done in October or in July. Handles property visits.
Foundations, stoves, off-grid systems. If a cabin's still standing after a hard winter, there's a decent chance Dez had a look at it.
Most of the directory sits in the inland Northwest and the northern Great Lakes. A couple outliers in the northern Rockies. If a listing is more than a day's drive from one of us, it's not on here.