Property before construction, cabin plans

My husband, Randy, and I bought five acres on the eastern brow of Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama early this year. The property overlooks the north Georgia mountains and the view is amazing. It's also less than a mile to Little River Canyon, one of the deepest U.S. canyons east of the Mississippi River. We plan to live in the cabin eventually, but at first we'll use it as a vacation home and rent it out when we can.

Here are some photos of the cabin site:

Here is Little River Canyon and Little River Falls:

We're using a Southern Living house plan. It's called "rustic beach cottage," but we're changing the cosmetic details to make it more of a "rustic mountain cottage." Of course, Randy can't get past the name and tells everyone we're building a beach house on a mountain. I drew the sketch at the top of the page to convince him it could look like a cabin. Here is the Southern Living sketch and the floor plan: