The Tye River Cabins are A-frames with social media clout.
Picture the perfect cabin in the woods. Now imagine it’s all roof—one big triangle, 100 percent roof. That’s an A-frame, a building shape that always feels one step away from a fairy cottage. It’s made a comeback—if you could say it ever really went away.
Though what we know as the American A-frame dates to the twentieth century, the shape has deep roots, almost as far back as people have been making houses. Michael Houser, Washington’s official architectural historian, notes that you can see the form in early Polynesia and ancient Japan, and in early European houses.
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