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.
When selecting the size, shape and look of the logs, the log home buyer is spoiled for choice. Here’s how to navigate your log profile and corner style options.
With hundreds of exceptional log home manufacturers and handcrafters out there, how do you choose? Here’s how to find a log home producer that can make your home just the way you want it.
Every log home construction timeline is different depending on the contractor, weather and region, but an overview of the proce...
A sampling of popular log home wood species and their attributes.
In addition to its superior good looks, a log building system works a little differently than conventional construction. Here’s how.
Calculating a log home addition doesn’t have to be difficult. Follow these builder’s tips and you can score an A+.
Sean Murphy shares the log home financial planning advice he wishes he’d paid attention to and offers some sound recommendations of his own.
After a flood soaked his family’s log home, Paul Peebles thought he just had a water problem, but soon he discovered air leakag...
You can conserve water AND have beautiful landscaping — plus save your cash for other projects. Check out our water conservatio...
This modern interpretation of a log home is full of function, energy-efficiency and uncommon style.
With a blank slate in front of you, designing your own home can be both thrilling and overwhelming. Don’t be intimidated.
Windows and doors can be a home’s biggest perpetrators of inefficiency. But you can block leakage and build an air-tight log home.
When it comes to heating and cooling your log home, the best strategy may be to divide and conquer.
Testing has shown that though the R-value of a log is technically low, log homes are energy efficient. Read on to learn about t...
Take one part architectural heritage and two parts highly functional design. Mix it well, and you have the perfect recipe for a...
Incorporating a water feature like a pond at your log home can add tranquility, life and value.
For them to be truly effective and build your dream log home, there are a few things you can do to help your builder help you.
Over the course of the next year, we'll follow the Murphys, a family who had big log home dreams to own their own & are working...
