OUR CABIN IN THE MOUNTAINS

We just returned last night from spending one week at our cabin in the Mountains. About 90 minutes from Los Angeles is the San Bernardino Mountains and a beautiful lake and resort town called Big Bear.

We own a cabin on Big Bear Lake. This cabin has quite the history. It was built in the 1930's by Cecile B. DeMille. He was a famous Director and had made several movies up in the Big Bear area. He was also the Director of the movies Ben Hur and The Ten Commandents with Charleton Heston. He bought the property for $10 and built our cabin on it. In the 1950's he sold it. We are the 4th owner of the cabin.

The cabin sits on approximately one acre of lake front property. When Cecile B. De Mille built the cabin it was only one level. This consisted of 3 bedrooms and 2 baths and a kitchen and large living area. The second owner in the 1950's built a second floor, which is now the middle floor and now a 4th bedroom, the Master Bedroom. The 3rd owner in the 1970's built the 3rd floor, which is now the bottom floor and this is the game room. We came along and built a boat house and did all the yard landscaping and walls.

The wood on the interior walls of the cabin have been preserved like it was in the 1930's.

Old skiis on the wall and a antler light over the dinning table

Right in the center of the living room is the huge original two-sided fireplace. I have taken a picture of all 4 sides.

Each bedroom has a theme. The first bedroom is the Vintage Hat Room. I have decorated this room with Vintage pill hats from the 30's and 40's.

The next bedroom has two sets of log bunk beds and it is decorated with Chairs all over the walls.

The next bedroom has a queen log bed in it and is decorated with Ducks.

This is the view that I have from my kitchen sink. I can stand here and wash dishes all day long!

The Master Bedroom is on the middle 2nd floor.





















The bottom floor is the game room and it is decorated in a Coca Cola theme.





















One of my Woodlands Santa standing next to a old heater and old sled











Some old cans and kitchen items on a shelf









A collection of old match books and bottle caps in a wooden case










Jackalopes must be real, here is a stuffed one!





Old ice skates on the wall

Now we will go outside to the grounds. When we first bought the cabin, the yard was just pine trees, rocks and dirt. We have landscaped it and put up planters and walls.

This is the area when you first drive in by car. Doesn't that grass look great? No lawn cutting for this chick, all our grass is fake!

An old Ore Cart on track

A old wooden cart full of pine cones




















A old gold minning pan and a tree log make a really cute birdbath








A old washer tub and wringer dated in the 1890s filled with "Dreams Rose Picotee" Petunias, surrounded by yellow dwarf marigolds


















A cute wagon and wishing well

A old red water pump

My husband thought I lost it when I came home with a old OUTHOUSE!

Pacific Giant Delphiniums - They are perennials that keep coming back year after year!

Roses just love that mountain air

Gaillardia Aristata "Sunburst Scarlet Halo"

Gaillardia Aristata "Sunburst Burgundy Picotee"

This cabin is like a dream come true except for one thing..........

I have this sign above the door way to 2 of the original bedrooms. You couldn't pay me to sleep in one of those rooms let alone spend the night anywhere alone in that cabin! Any one who has ever slept in one of those bedrooms has never been back to our cabin.

After we first bought the cabin I would wake up to sounds coming from upstairs. It sounded like people walking around and talking. My husband would tell me I was hearing things and I was believing him until we had someone stay at our cabin and they told me that they would be awaken at night to the sound of people talking but no one was there. I fell asleep once on the couch watching TV and I was awaken by a voice whispering in my ear. When ever I would enter in one of those bedrooms, I felt like someone was following me. I thought it was me just feeling creepy because of the sounds at night, then guests staying in those rooms started telling of their experiences like dark figures moving around the room, being awaken at night because someone was starring at them, feeling the presence of someone sitting on their bed, having the light turn off and on. I think the final straw came when I had the carpet changed in the cabin when I was not there and I called the company to let them know that I was satisfied and the lady at the carpet place told me she was glad I was happy because her workers said my cabin was haunted and they would never set foot there again. I don't know what happened to them, I don't know them and have never talked to them. After that incident, I had someone from my church give a blessing on my cabin to make them go away. I try not to think about it now when I go up there because it will just ruin my vacation. It is always just my husband and I going up there, none of our children have been back there in over 5 years and our friends never seem to want to come back to visit!