All language subtitles for The.Cabin.Chronicles.S03E08.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH[eztv.re]

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JENNIFER SAMS: We're
so thick in the woods

back here in the
Chattahoochee National Forest.

The roads are
quite windy, hilly.

In the summer, you
can't see anything

and then the leaves
come down and you

realize where you are on top.

And you see mountains
in all directions,

and it's pretty spectacular.

We're at the farm in Ellijay,
Georgia, and I'm Jennifer Sams.

And I'm Susan Fitzsimmons.

You know, it's like this natural
thing of what are we gonna

call this place, and
both Jennifer and I,

our grandparents had places that
they referred to as the farm.

So it's kind of an
homage to to that.

We're about 60 miles
from the nearest town,

and as you start
off maybe going east

but then you think
you're going north but

somehow you end up going south.

But then you get up here, and
it's like where is that road.

And from the road
can I see my house.

So when we walk
in the back door,

first thing you would notice
is some of the artifacts

that we've collected.

Coat hooks from South Africa,
topographical maps of our area.

But as you look ahead
you're really just looking

out south to another ridge.

We have a deck off of the
back that most of the time

have dinner out there.

There's a structure in
the middle of our house

that kind of separates the
sleeping area from the living

area and serves as also
the pantry for the kitchen,

little galley kitchen.

There's a real balance of
how much is too much wood.

The floors that we
have in here were

the sub-flooring out of an old
textile mill in South Georgia.

And it turned out so well that
we actually used them to build

the shelving in the kitchen.

And so, you'll see
that, kind of, almost

earthy, organic quality to
the dishware that we use,

the things that Jennifer's made.

Small bathroom with
these geometric windows,

kind of, echoed between the
kitchen and the bath as well.

If you walk out the back
door, you're immediately

looking at pottery shed.

Jen's really gifted at ceramics.

JENNIFER SAMS: We have a great
fire pit out to the right side

of the house.

As soon as we finished
building the house we're like,

oh, we need a solid outdoor
space, more than just the deck.

From the fire pit down around,
we've built some paths.

And you just go
down into the woods.

And we've created
some walking paths

that take you to the
bottom of the property

or just around to the west
side of it and back up again.

So much goes back
to our families.

When I was a kid, we
would make whole villages.

We would rake the
leaves into paths.

When I first started, it was
just that idea, like, you know,

if we've got these woods, we
need to spend time in them.

And then they started to become
more intentional, more than

spending time walking on them.

It's been fun building them.

How the land moves and
putting the paths in to,

kind of, feature
the native azaleas

that were already
on the property

or the mountain laurels
that were there.

So then you wind
back around and we

have a floating
deck that we built

in that's more of
the chillout area.

And then that path
takes you up to number

four, the sleeping cabin.

SUSAN FITZSIMMONS: There's
basically four buildings.

There's the pottery
shed, the tool shed,

and the sleeping cottage,
and our main living area.

You named the fourth
one four, but not

for the obvious reasons.

JENNIFER SAMS: So, my
family has this thing based

on a Victorian poem and it
says, "One, I love; two,

I love; three, I love; four,
I love with all my heart."

And that's how my
family-- we signed letters

and notes to each other.

So we just thought, you know,
again, bringing it all back

to our growing up and our
families and our-- the things

we love in life, it just seemed
fitting to call it number four.

We, kind of, made it a project.

You know, we'd just get
away on the weekends.

And because we're
so close to Atlanta,

we can come up easily
for just a day trip

and just drove
around and, you know,

kept our eye out for
land that was for sale.

We found this piece of land.

And that was it.

We both immediately looked
at each other and said,

this is it.

This is the place
after three years.

The plans that we used were
actually 480 square feet.

We were so hands on
with all the design.

A big part of mid-century
modern architecture

was designing spaces to
go in their surroundings.

And it's all about
being outside here.

And so we wanted
a lot of windows

that were really looking out
at those trees out there.

We wanted to put in the
clear story-esque windows

on the sides, just get as much
glass in here as we could.

SUSAN FITZSIMMONS: It's
a different mindset

when we're here.

It's helped us, kind
of, eliminate some

of the noise in our life by just
coming up and having quiet time

and focus, intention.

Jasper is our little weirdo.

He's a pithuahua,
pitbull-chihuahua.

In the city, he's the kind
of dog that sleeps a whole lot.

And when we come up here, if
we go on a four-mile hike,

he's right there with us.

It's like a dog's
best life up here.

SUSAN FITZSIMMONS: It is
his best life, for sure.

I work in the software industry.

And so, you know, all the traps
that, kind of, go with that,

it's kind of nice to
be up here where you're

not tethered to a Zoom call.

JENNIFER SAMS: I have a
retail business in Atlanta,

sell vintage, mid-century
modern furniture.

I work during the weekdays.

But I'm, kind of,
working all the time.

I absolutely love it.

But it's just-- we come up
here and do the opposite.

We just kind of
check out, look to be

creative in a
different way up here,

you know, look and-- look to be
creative with our surroundings

up here the same way we're
creative with our surroundings

in Atlanta or like to try to be.

So, it's fun just to have
projects that we can do.

Sometimes it's print making
things, painting sometimes.

We both just, as we get
older, want to make sure

that we're super productive.

You know, our house is a place
that, kind of, shelters us.

And we take care of it
because it takes care of us.

But here, it's much more
of like a nurturing kind

of relationship, tweaking little
things, perfecting things,

making paths, you know,
improving the space,

but not because it needs to
be painted again this year.

More because it's
something, like, you

nurture a child or something.

12 years into this, we still
come up here and are amazed.

And we still feel like
it's such a gift to us.

And so it makes us want to
continue to, like, improve it.

So we're just constantly,
you know, nurturing it.