Perfectly Imperfect - Makeshift Shelves

The exposed framework common to cabins and cottages allows for tucked-in treasures and beach reads that are always within reach.

If you've been fortunate enough to while away time in a rustic old cabin or clapboard cottage, then you are likely familiar with the happy accident sort of shelving that presents itself along the exposed framework walls. Intended to provide support, these noggins and headers-sometimes symmetrical, sometimes haphazard help a country house maximize its charm per square inch. For a collector, the tucked-in two-by-fours present an opportunity to pack in quirk at every corner-a figurine here, a petite painting nestled between studs there.