Build Your Log Home
Expert advice for building a log home or log cabin, including advice on log home construction, energy-efficient building, roofing options, windows, insulation tips, wood & log choices, landscaping and log home kit options.
There are ways to accommodate a small log cabin without compromising design integrity.
An inefficient home can cost you tons of money for energy you don't get to use, and it will make a big, and unnecessary, impact on the environment for generations of today and tomorrow. Save both kinds of green with this advice on design, appliances and more.
Invasive red cedar turns into furniture.
Here are questions to ask yourself and tips to consider when it comes time to select windows for your log home.
Reclaimed wood is a durable and unique material to use for wood flooring in your log home. Here's what to look for.
You may hear about "natural element," "hybrid" or "mixed-materials" homes. Here's what that means.
Chinking alone is not enough to seal your home. Learn from the pros with these sealing and finishing tips for log homes.
Here are the best and least-expensive ways to build a log home that will conserve energy (and your money).
Hooking up a new ceiling fan is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Modern log homes are "going green"–using energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, eco-friendly building materials, and sustainable landscaping. Here are some tips to help you make your log home naturally green.
What can a lotus plant or pine tree teach us? Plenty—including the elements of smart log home design.
See photos from the final installment of the Merrill family's log home diary.
Planning a landscape for your log home has never been easier, thanks to these log home gardening tips from Julie Moir Messervy.
Designing a shade garden for the area outside your log home is a breeze with these professional tips.
Get answers to the most common questions about building a log home on a sloped site, plus, seven quick tips for success.
Achieve your "green" house goals with the most energy-efficient products and building materials.
Task at hand: Building and construction of our new log guesthouse.
Environmental activist and actor Ed Begley, Jr. talks to Log Home Design about eco-friendly home designs.
Want a simple log cabin to call home? Follow this advice for building no-frills log homes.
Take advantage of the current housing market by building your log home now.
Planning an earth friendly log home in the mountains of North Carolina. Featured in Log Home Design magazine.
A behind-the-scenes look at the planning, designing and building of a Hearthstone Inc. log guesthouse.
Entry 1 in Log Home Design's Log Home Diary series.
With the floor plan for our Appalachian-style guesthouse drawn, we get started on construction.
With the end in sight, Kent and Midge Merrill add the finishing touches to their tiny log cabin in their Tennessee back yard.
A chat with Lynn Gastineau, owner of Gastineau Log Homes, on budget-busters and the benefits of building with oak.
Incorporating these energy-efficient elements into your log home may be pricier upfront, but they'll end up costing you less in t…
Want to get a getaway log cabin built in 6 months? Here are 6 ways to make sure your dream log home happens with time to spare.
