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.
How do you decide on the wood you will use for your log home? Consider many factors before deciding on a favorite wood species.
There are ways to accommodate a small log cabin without compromising design integrity.
Who are the main players in your log home buy/decide/build journey? Let us introduce you to 18 people you should really know.
From elevators to wine cellars, an extravagance or two can turn your future log home into a dream log home.
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.
Log Homes Illustrated gives you the steps to take to ensure your dream home will have a dream setting.
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.
