My Cabin: Bella Cottage

Green Dream on the Lake

Owners: Jeff & Deb Spencer

Location: Beaver Lake, Ozark Mountains, Ark.

Published: April 1, 2011

Photo by Jeff & Deb Spencer

We never intended to own two cabins.

After six years of tent camping, we bought our first lake cabin in 2000. It was an old fishing cabin, only 45 minutes from our primary residence, sitting on 1 acre with a boat dock. We bulldozed the cabin four years later and built a new 1,400-square-foot two-story lakehome.

And on New Year’s Day in 2009, we bought our second place, an 860-square-foot, 1968-vintage lakefront cottage.

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