i would like to have some plans and ideas to create a north woods type basement family room?

Answer 1

http://mariesmanor.fateback.com/BOYS/Lodge_Cabin_Bedroom.html

Answer 2

If your basement is dry year round and ventilated you may consider rough cut lumber of any variety from any lumber mill in your area. You may like rough lumber placed around the steel support posts to cover and give a rustic effect. If you have a full 10 foot cellar 45 degree angled barn type joist supports at the top may be attractive. The beauty of rough cut lumber is you can stain it any color you desire. If our cellar is not dry I'd place Rolled sheets of W.I. Grace Tri - Flex Roofing underlayment against the walls with thin Dow Board covering it.The lumber would be applied to the inside face of the cellar.
I have seen cellars and kitchens with genuine 1 by 10 or 1 by 8 barn boards on the walls. The colors of well weathered lumber is attractive. You may spot a partially collapsed barn and ask the owner if you can cut pieces with a chainsaw load them up and finish saw at home.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

You could use good quality pine paneling, or get the wall paper that looks like log cabin insides. Use wrought iron black metal accessories, lamps, table legs, log furniture, fabric with Indian blanket designs, red buffalo check blankets, or braided rugs. The LL Bean catalog usually has a section with this kind of stuff, and even if you don't buy their stuff, you can get good ideas. There's a Northwoods catalog out there also. While on vacation we kept running across stores that sold all kinds of stuff like this, and it also included a lot of bear designs. You could use a small fake Christmas tree - the kind where the center pole looks like a real tree trunk - put some pine cones, birds, white lights on it, in the corner.