The Log Home Diary | Behind-the-Scenes Look at Planning, Designing and Building a Wisconsin Log Home |
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The Log Home Diary:
A behind-the-scenes look at the planning, designing and building of a Wisconsin Log Home.
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A behind-the-scenes look at the planning, designing and building of a Wisconsin Log Home.
Meet the Hennigans:  What happens when a family takes the plunge and builds their own lakeside log home? Well, we're about to find out. We are JoAnn and Shawn Hennigan, and this is our journey from design to finish. We'll share the inside scoop on exactly what goes on during the log home building process through our eyes. Follow our story by clicking on any of the content below, we hope you enjoy reading about our experience as much as we enjoyed planning, designing and building our dream home: |
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 Planning Our Log HomeTopics covered: Planning, designing, finding land. A few years ago, friends of ours bought a 19th-century log cabin. Sure, it needed a little—okay, a lot—of work, but it turned out really beautifully. I fell so in love with the place that I started scouring log home magazines. Soon, my husband Shawn and I were looking for property of our own. We were completely bitten by the log home bug...(Click to continue) |
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 Building Our Log HomeTopics covered: Building, landscaping, log-raising. Once we cleared the minimal amount of land we needed for our new log home, we were ready to start building. The home was to sit on a massive sheet of bedrock, which meant that to build a full in-ground basement, we’d need to blast that rock out —not a task (or expense) we were ready to take on...(Click to continue) |
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 Our Design & Building TipsTopics covered: Planning, logistics, finding a log home company. This week we're taking a break from the hustle and bustle of log home construction to reflect on our experiences so far (and share with you these 5 tips we've acquired along the way). Everyone will have a different home-building story to tell, but here are a few gems of wisdom we've learned while building our log home...(Click to continue) |
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 Finishing Our Log HomeTopics covered: Furnishing, finishing our log home, final touches. With the construction behind us, it was time to finish off our log house and turn it into a real home. I got together with the Wisconsin Log Homes in-house interior designer, to talk about the type of ambiance I wanted to create—a warm log home with a Western ranch feel. Before we got started, I gathered pictures and photos that I’d clipped from magazines and collected swatches of flooring, fabric and paint...(Click to continue) |
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 Log Home Photos | A ScrapbookSo you've read all of our entries (or maybe you've skipped to the photos - we don't blame you!) and you want to know what this home really looks like. Well, here we offer a photo collection that documents the process from start to finish...(Click to continue) |
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