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1. Country’s Best Cabins Visits “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” Country’s Best Cabins visits the set of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to check out one of the projects underway for the upcoming season.

2. Log-home resources available in downloadable PDF The resources section of the 2009 Log Homes Illustrated Annual Buyer’s Directory has been digitized for the first time and is  now available for free download.   You’ll find guides to both top log home manufacturers and to companies offering products and services related to financing, finishing and furnishing log homes.   There are over [...]

3. BEHIND THE SCENES WITH EXTREME MAKEOVER HOME EDITION Joyce Standridge was on the scene for the filming of the New Orleans Extreme Makeover home, and here’s what she had to say. Is Ty (Pennington, the show’s host) really that hyper? Yes, indeed, he is. He is also a very smart television person, always looking at how things will appear on camera, and what [...]

4. Log Cabin could appear on pennies An image of a log cabin could find its way onto the penny in  2009. Four coins are to be issued in 2009 to celebrate a different aspect of Abraham Lincoln’s life and mark the bicentennial of his birth. To honor Lincoln’s birth and humble beginnings in Kentucky, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee and the [...]

5. Southland releases new plans book Southland Log Homes has released its 2008 Southland Planning Guide. The 84-page guide is filled with 29 house plans, many of which include optional floor plans. Features in the guide include The Southland Promise, The Total Solution and tips for living "green" in a Southland home. "Since establishing Southland almost 30 years ago, we’ve come [...]

6. Estemerwalt mill gets morning-show piece in NYC Estemerwalt Log Homes was recently featured on TV when Larry Hoff of CW11 (Channel 11, CW Network) in New York City visited the company’s factory in Honesdale, Pa.Hoff walked through several processes with Estemerwalt staff, including Beth Reese and Kurt Propst. There were segments shortly after 6, 7 and 8 a.m. The first segment shortly [...]

7. True North releases new plans book True North Log Homes has just launched a new plans book, which introduces the ultimate in inspirational home planning ideas, capturing both current trends and classic beauty with 200-plus pages of color photography. The coffee table-caliber plans book is well summarized by its opening quote: “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you [...]

8. Georgia lottery winner chooses Southland What is the first thing a man does when he wins $275 million? He calls Southland Log Homes and orders a couple of homes, of course. Until recently, Robert and his wife, Tonya, lived in a single-wide mobile home in Portal, Georgia. Robert was an ironworker, mostly working on skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta. Every Friday [...]

9. Honest Abe log home survives tornado When Honest Abe Log Homes founder Doug Smith started his company almost 30 years ago, he had several goals in mind: make a quality product, provide jobs for the county, use some excess material generated by his sawmill, and (last, but not least) make a profit. It’s doubtful that saving lives was one of those [...]

10. Timberpeg, Foard Panel helping build Habitat home The Upper Valley (Vt.) Habitat for Humanity, in conjunction with Timberpeg, Foard Panel and members of 20 faith communities in the Upper Valley will break ground for a new, perpetually affordable home on Sunday, May 18. The Upper Valley family that will live in the home has not yet been chosen but will be selected [...]

11. Spirit Cabin stars in Toyota Tundra commercial The truck that’s changing it all is demonstrating its power with a new commercial in which it pulls a Spirit Cabins modular cabin. Spirit Cabins was contacted by WestWayne, an advertising agency headquartered in Atlanta that was developing a television spot in which a Toyota Tundra tows a log cabin, Spirit’s Ponderosa model, to a [...]

12. Old Timer Log Homes offers helping hand With the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaching, many folks may think the recovery effort is complete. There is still much to do, though, as a group called "Helping Hands" knows all too well. Since the Katrina disaster in 2005, Paul Gentry, president of Old Timer Log Homes & Supply, Inc., has visited the Gulf [...]

13. Log Home News: Maple Island Handcrafted Log Homes Unveils New, Interactive Website Maple Island Handcrafted Log Homes Unveils New, Interactive Website Michigan-based, Maple Island Log Homes unveils a new interactive website. This new site features larger photo galleries with new homes, a complete floor plan library for idea starters, a downloadable color brochure and an interactive virtual home tour…” Maple Island worked with new technology from NeuStep [...]

14. Log Home News: Award-Winning Green Community Invites Home Buyers to Join in Conservation Log Home News: Award-Winning Green Community Invites Home Buyers to Join in Conservation Log Homes along the Blue Ridge Parkway in demand. Blues Ridge Parkway, NC (PRWEB) December 13, 2007 — Cielo Falls, a gorgeous premium log home community with an emphasis on sustainable development, is proud to announce having earned the prestigious “Mountain Homes [...]

15. Log Home News: Pine Beetle “Kill” Trees Have New Purpose Log Home News: Pine Beetle “Kill” Trees Have New Purpose Local log business looked at as model for state KEYSTONE, CO — Playing with Lincoln Logs as a child meant getting to be an architect constructing dream homes. Now, in Summit County, that toy is the inspiration for making those homes a reality while putting [...]

16. Log Home News: Innovative Kitchen Product Unveiled 12/13/2007 Log Home News: Innovative New Kitchen Product Unveiled Introducing Heartland’s New Multifunction Dual Oven, the Paragon Cambridge, ON: Heartland Appliances, Inc. brings high style and professional cooking power to the luxury consumer market with the launch of the Paragon range. The Paragon brings new meaning to the term dual fuel. This pro-style range offers a [...]

17. Log Home News: AmerLink’s New Green Iniative 11/22/2007 Log Home News: AmerLink Design’s with "Green" in Mind America’s Log Home Company launches Green Outlook Program and partners with environmental charity to raise awareness for the importance of reforestation Battleboro, NC: AmerLink, Ltd., one of the nation’s top suppliers of custom yet affordable log home packages sold to over 5,000 consumers across the U.S. [...]

18. Log Home News: Kuhns Bros. Expands Staff 11/22/2007 Log Home News: Kuhns Bros. Welcomes New Staff Members Kuhns Bros. Welcomes New Director of International Sales and Southeastern Regional Sales Manager Lewisburg, PA: Kuhns Bros. Log Homes is pleased to welcome Jock Davidson and Debra Adams as the newest members of the Kuhns Bros. family. Jock has been appointed Director of International Sales and [...]

19. Log Home news: Lincoln’s Log Cabin Legacy Inspires Kentuckians 11/22/2007 Log Home News: Lincoln’s Log Cabin Legacy Memorial May Not Be the Real Thing, But it Still Inspires Kentuckians Source: www.thenewsenterpriseonline.com LaRue County, KY:Compared to today’s McMansions, Abraham Lincoln’s first digs weren’t anything to worry the Joneses. Still, his tiny, dirt floor cabin has become an icon of his bicentennial birthday celebration. It’s a case [...]

20. Log Home News: Alta Log Homes Receives LEED for Homes Certificate | 11/15/2007 Log Home News: LEED Certificate Granted to Alta Alta Log Homes Receives LEED for Homes Certificate Halcottsville, NY: Alta Log Homes, a leading builder of "green" log homes for over 35 years has gone one shade greener with its elegant Greenbriar model, which has received the first U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® Certification for Homes, [...]

21. Log Home News: PrecisionCraft Wins Custom Log Home Design Award | 11/15/2007 Log Home News: PrecisionCraft Wins Design Award for Log Homes PrecisionCraft Takes Top Honors For Outstanding Custom Log Home Design Meridian, ID: There really is “no place like home” – if “home” is an award-winning custom log edifice by PrecisionCraft and sister company Mountain Architects. Working in tandem, the pair nearly managed a clean sweep [...]

22. Log Home News: New Director of Construction Services Appointed at Kuhns Bros. 11/08/2007 Log Home News: New Director of Construction Services Appointed 11/08/2007 Kuhns Bros. Welcomes New Director of Construction Services Lewisburg, PA: Kuhns Bros. Log Homes is pleased to welcome Chris Cangello to the Kuhns Bros. family of employees. In the fall of 2007, Kuhns Bros. created a full scale Construction Division to meet the ever changing [...]

23. Log Home News: Handcrafted Log Bed & Breakfast Opens 11/08/2007 Log Home News: Bed & Breakfast at a Handcrafted Log Home 11/08/2007 Maple Island Log Homes to host fall open house event at The Wildberry Lodge, a handcrafted log home Bed & Breakfast Leicester, NC: Michigan-based, Maple Island Log Homes announces a unique opportunity for the public to tour one of their masterpiece designs, the [...]

24. Log Home News: Grand Re-Opening of American Heritage Crafters 11/01/2007 Log Home News: American Heritage Crafters Grand Re-Opening 11/01/2007 Successful Re-Opening of American Heritage Crafters | A Kuhns Bros. Enterprise Milton, PA: On October 12th & 13th, American Heritage Crafters’ (AHC), the home furnishing division of Kuhns Bros. Log Homes, held a Grand Re-Opening to showcase their brand new 6,000 sq. ft. showroom. Tom & [...]

25. Log Home News: Housing Market Still Grows, Despite Some Slumps 11/01/2007 Log Home News: Gardiner Housing Market Grows Despite Slump Elsewhere 11/01/2007 New Home Sub-Division Supports Gardiners’ Economic Development Bowdoinham, ME: In late August of this year, Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) granted Hilltop Log & Timber Homes, of Bowdoinham, Maine, final permitting for construction of its new 19 lot sub-division along Cobbosseecontee Stream in [...]

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