The Log Lady's Cabin In The Original Series

Margaret Lanterman's cabin is an extension of herself. Like many of the houses in Twin Peaks, its contents aid in the telling of her story. 

Margaret has an abundance of antique farm and logging tools on her property. Many tools have been left to the elements, as though recently in use, though there hardly seems need for their employ. Margaret's home is without animals or farmland. One wonders if these tools belonged to her husband or are remnants from her childhood.

The description of the interior of her home as found in the script: 

Truman, Cooper, Hawk and then Doc enter. One large room. Simple kitchen, a bed in the corner. Table with six chairs, six places with a log-motif tea setting. A boarded up fireplace. Fire extinguishers and a bucket of water in each corner. An axe, a saw and other woodcutting tools. Framed picture of a lumberjack, on the mantle, beside a funereal urn, with ashes. Log Lady goes to the kitchen, where she's preparing tea."

And

"Cooper. looks around, noticing all the firefighting equipment. She looks at him, as if to say, "Don't laugh. I see everything and it takes it's toll." Pause.

It is not firefighting equipment we see, but the aforementioned logging and farming implements. There may be six chairs at the table. It's difficult to tell. There is something partially covered by a knit blanket when Hawk is shown in a close-up, which may be a chair. Otherwise, there are five chairs. The "log-motif" tea setting was changed.

Margaret's decor paints her as willingly removed from the present. I would be apt to think her house is without electricity were it not for the power lines leading from her house and its few electrical lights and appliances.

Margaret has outside her cabin an old barrel, a snath scythe, a kitchen dresser and what appears to be an antique shaving horse. 

As we follow Margaret, we see two vintage buck saws, a butter churn, an oil lamp, snowshoes, what might be a horse bridle, a barrel with an axe on top, a grain bag and a high backed bench with a shawl and a few books.

From an interior POV we see a wheel barrel, possibly another scythe, and several milk churns.

A full bookshelf with what might be a goblet between books on the second shelf. 

Beside Hawk is an antique monitor top refrigerator along with an electric lamp in the style of an old-fashioned oil lamp.

You can see in the background a sign that reads, "No smoking", an incense ball, books, a large pine cone (similar to one sometimes seen on Ben Horne's desk among other places) and something akin to a wind chime. 

In another close up of the entrance hall to Margaret's cabin, we can see what could be an antique washing wringer.

Margaret has a 1900s wall-mounted telephone beside the refrigerator. 

On the edge of the refrigerator is a planter, teapot, or some other ceramic piece made in the shape of a log. 

Margaret heats water at an antique stove. On the shelves along the wall are what appear to be bottled spices, perhaps teas. On the top shelf is an owl statue. 

Behind Margaret, on the wood of her shelf, appears to be another saw or logging tool partially wedged in the wood, along with two small sets of antlers and a fire extinguisher.

Behind Margaret are jarred goods, additional cups, saucers and plates. Many books whose titles I cannot discern. 

In dialogue deleted from the televised episode, Cooper asks Margaret the following after the interior description is given: 

                COOPER
        Do you use fire for cooking then?
   
                LOG LADY
        I go to great lengths to keep it under control.

Her efforts at keeping fire under control are noticeable throughout her house. 

She has what looks like another saw suspended from the ceiling. Another set of antlers above a back door. A fire extinguisher and bucket reside by the boarded-up fireplace, along with more books. Above the mantel of the fireplace is another owl statue, a horn, an old photograph of a woman, and some small boxes or books. Beside the fireplace, against the wall, is a type of pitchfork or rake. Textile spools frame a picture of a man who might be her husband. Beside it is the bottle of ashes mentioned in the script:

Framed picture of a lumberjack, on the mantle, beside a funereal urn, with ashes.

Margaret's bed can be seen next to Hawk's place at the table, a lamp beside it. A few blankets lie nearby. A grandfather clock resides in a corner, and on the wall next to it is a small lantern. Beneath the lantern is a standing lamp. A painting or photograph of a tree can also be seen beneath a wall-mounted lamp.

Margaret layers her rugs. There are two hook rugs over other rugs. There is a bucket near Margaret, presumably filled with water.

A close shot of Margaret's centerpiece. It appears to contain a vintage porcelain deer, a small wolf, and at least one other figure made of glass.  It looks as though the glass vase contains a sprig of pine needles mixed with flora.

There appear to be two wolves in the centerpiece when Doc Hayward is shown in a close shot. The vase of pine is absent from this shot.

The wooden device behind Dale initially made me think of the back of a chair, but I wonder if it might be a pillory. Yet more books behind Dale. 

It almost looks like a barrel of a rifle resting against Margaret's bed, behind Hawk. A second knit blanket. The painting on the wall slightly reminds me of the painting seen in the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department.

We can see more of Margaret's shelf containing her spices and jars. A blue pitcher rests on a low shelf. The saw or logging tool can be seen more clearly.

Behind Harry is a large spinning wheel, more books, two lamps, a framed piece and what may be a vintage tree slab clock. Harry appears to have used Margaret's bedpost as a place to hang his hat.

Notice that the plate in front of Harry has a hint of green. In the script for this episode, there is another moment absent from the televised episode during which Cooper asks the following:

         COOPER
            (passing the plate around)
        Lime, Harry?

I have never understood the point of this scripted exchange other than its reference to the Orson Welles film The Third Man. Harry Lime is the name of Welles' character. Note that in Twin Peaks, a third man had recently been named responsible for Laura's death.

When the Bravo Network aired Twin Peaks in 1993, Catherine Coulson returned as the Log Lady for introductions to each episode. Margaret's home is changed in the intros, but some things remain the same. For instance; her fireplace is still boarded over, there is a grandfather clock in the corner of the room and a standing lamp. Over the mantle of the fireplace is an urn along with some old photographs.

Margaret during the Bravo Intros. 

She almost always has something different beside her in the intros. Stacked teacups, cookies, decoy ducks, what appears to be a teddy bear. Behind her, on the mantle, aside from the urn and pictures, is what almost appears to be a small log cabin, a lantern and a pipe stand with pipes.

In the end, I feel as though the items in Margaret's cabin share a history she cannot always bear to tell.