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Building a log home is an exciting prospect but can seem a formidable challenge. Once the sequence is revealed, the process seems less intimidating and can proceed in an organized [...]

Perhaps the most frustrating challenge facing log-home shoppers is comparing prices quoted by different companies. It seems that no two kits are alike. Each manufacturer has its own idea about [...]

Everyone that now lives in a log home has overcome two major obstacles: (1) the log-home buying process itself and (2) their budget. While the obstacles may seem obvious, methods [...]

I'VE ALWAYS ENJOYED outdoor summer concerts, especially with full orchestras. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture on the Fourth of July, with actual cannon fire, is almost magical. When the conductor raises his [...]

BUILDING A LOG HOME is an exciting prospect but can seem a formidable challenge. Once the sequence is revealed, the process seems less intimidating and can proceed in an organized [...]

PERHAPS THE MOST frustrating challenge facing log-home shoppers is comparing prices quoted by different companies. It seems that no two kits are alike. Each manufacturer has its own idea about [...]

EVERYONE THAT NOW LIVES IN A LOG HOME has overcome two major obstacles: (1) the log-home buying process itself and (2) their budget. While the obstacles may seem obvious, methods [...]

YOU'LL FIND THEM AT home shows or wandering through the comments that follow blog postings on home building. Their remarks carry an unmistakable air of authority backed by vast experience. [...]

DESIGNING AND BUILDING A LOG HOME are a seemingly endless parade of choices, from selecting your building site to choosing paint colors. Of all the choices you will make, selecting [...]

DESIGNING A LOG HOME is a time of high excitement. Let your imagination run and start putting those dreams on paper. But it's also a time to think deeply about [...]

MOST LOG-HOME PROJECTS start slowly. Since dreams don't have a time limit, collecting information and working up a design may take months or even years. But for the seriously committed, [...]

AS I DISCUSSED last column, sophisticated computer models can estimate the energy consumption for your homebuilding project. Models take into account design and site variables to determine your HVAC needs, [...]

THERE AREN'T MANY PLACES in America where you don't find log homes. Once upon a time, their appearance coincided with the presence of trees. Today, long-distance trucking makes it possible [...]

EARLY IN MY LOG-HOME BUILDING days, I received a call from a Realtor who had clients interested in an 'upscale' log home. 'Do you have a model?' he asked. 'Yes,' [...]

A LOG HOME is a work of art and architecture. It is also a work of nature. When a living tree is cut to become part of a log home, [...]

DREAM LOG HOMES aren't built floating freely in space. They're built in a landscape that may be as much a part of your dream as your home itself. Like your [...]

CHOOSING MATERIALS for your log home used to be easy. Trees and rocks about covered it. Toss in some ironware, such as hinges and glass windowpanes, and you were ready [...]

PERFECT PLANS don't just happen. While an ideal floor plan or appearance might come in a bolt of inspirational lightning, until it's built and lived in, it can't really be [...]