diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcache.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcache.py
index 6f1ccce68..30e49b886 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcache.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/httpcache.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import logging
-
 from email.utils import formatdate
 from twisted.internet import defer
 from twisted.internet.error import TimeoutError, DNSLookupError, \
@@ -11,9 +9,6 @@ from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured, IgnoreRequest
 from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
 
 
-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-
 class HttpCacheMiddleware(object):
 
     DOWNLOAD_EXCEPTIONS = (defer.TimeoutError, TimeoutError, DNSLookupError,
@@ -29,8 +24,6 @@ class HttpCacheMiddleware(object):
         self.ignore_missing = settings.getbool('HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_MISSING')
         self.stats = stats
 
-        logger.debug("Using cache directory %(cachedir)s" % {'cachedir': self.storage.cachedir})
-
     @classmethod
     def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
         o = cls(crawler.settings, crawler.stats)
diff --git a/scrapy/extensions/httpcache.py b/scrapy/extensions/httpcache.py
index 247cac64e..8025efe77 100644
--- a/scrapy/extensions/httpcache.py
+++ b/scrapy/extensions/httpcache.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 import os
 import gzip
+import logging
 from six.moves import cPickle as pickle
 from importlib import import_module
 from time import time
@@ -15,6 +16,9 @@ from scrapy.utils.httpobj import urlparse_cached
 from scrapy.utils.python import to_bytes, to_unicode
 
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
 class DummyPolicy(object):
 
     def __init__(self, settings):
@@ -216,6 +220,8 @@ class DbmCacheStorage(object):
         self.dbmodule = import_module(settings['HTTPCACHE_DBM_MODULE'])
         self.db = None
 
+        logger.debug("Using DBM cache storage in %(cachedir)s" % {'cachedir': self.cachedir})
+
     def open_spider(self, spider):
         dbpath = os.path.join(self.cachedir, '%s.db' % spider.name)
         self.db = self.dbmodule.open(dbpath, 'c')
@@ -271,6 +277,8 @@ class FilesystemCacheStorage(object):
         self.use_gzip = settings.getbool('HTTPCACHE_GZIP')
         self._open = gzip.open if self.use_gzip else open
 
+        logger.debug("Using filesystem cache storage in %(cachedir)s" % {'cachedir': self.cachedir})
+
     def open_spider(self, spider):
         pass
 
@@ -344,6 +352,8 @@ class LeveldbCacheStorage(object):
         self.expiration_secs = settings.getint('HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS')
         self.db = None
 
+        logger.debug("Using LevelDB cache storage in %(cachedir)s" % {'cachedir': self.cachedir})
+
     def open_spider(self, spider):
         dbpath = os.path.join(self.cachedir, '%s.leveldb' % spider.name)
         self.db = self._leveldb.LevelDB(dbpath)