Plan Your Log Home
Planning a log home or log cabin involves more than just the floor plan; here you'll find expert advice on everything you need to get started, including budgeting, buying land, geographic regions, choosing logs, and more.






Use this checklist to determine your needs versus wants in your new log home.
The birthplace of Jack Daniel's and the Tennessee walking horse serves up Southern hospitality in a picture-perfect pastoral setting.
Buying land can be one of the most challenging parts of creating your dream log home. Follow these 3 steps to find the best of the good earth.
More and more log homeowners are turning to one-story floor plans. Here's how to maximize the main level of your log home plan.
Northwestern Illinois is a blend of hearty folks, natural abundance and a delicate look back in time.
Using square foot estimations as a predictor of building cost per square foot is unreliable and often leads to poor decision maki…
This log home community spotlight highlights Timberwilde, North Carolina.
Average costs to construct a log home.
Advice from designers on how to create the perfect small log home — check out these tips from log home industry experts.
Follow these optimal climate condition guidelines for your farm fresh produce.
With the construction behind us, it was time to finish off our log house and turn it into a real home.
Use this 10-week checklist to make sure your log home dream is right on track.
Eight financial tips to help prepare you for the process of building a log home.
Doing more with less—stretch your dollars as far as they can go when planning your log home.
Use these tips to start planning the financial foundation necessary for building your log home.
Here are some more thought-provoking questions to help prepare you for the task of building a new log home.
Here are a series of thought-provoking questions to help prepare you for the task of building a new log home.
What's it take to build on a mountaintop? How about in the desert? Experts set the scene for perfect log home design, no matter w…
Here are the 14 key questions to ask when preparing to build a log home. We'll make sure you have your bases covered on everythin…
From the best fishing holes to the annual festivals everyone waits for, learn the secrets only the locals know about our Top 10 L…
Favoring small, well-designed homes over cookie-cutter McMansions, this groundbreaking architect and author shares the secrets of…
Harney County, Oregon, #2 on Log Home Living's List of Best Places to Build a Log Home.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont, #3 on Log Home Living's List of Best Places to Build a Log Home.
Pendleton County, West Virginia, #4 on Log Home Living's List of Best Places to Build a Log Home.
Mountain Home, Arkansas, #5 on Log Home Living's List of Best Places to Build a Log Home.
While the crowds flock to Park City and Sonoma County, carve out your own little slice of heaven in one of these middle-of-nowhere gems.