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The best log cabin plans are the ones that match how you actually live, the land you are building on, and the budget you can

A dry-in home is a house finished to the point where weather can no longer get inside — walls up, roof on, windows and doors

Timber frame homes cost roughly the same as a comparable custom home in most markets — often five to fifteen percent more for the shell,

Carpenter bees and log homes are a common problem: the females bore half-inch tunnels into soft, unfinished wood to nest, and they return to the

Yes, you should stain your log home — a pigmented log home stain is the only thing standing between your walls and ultraviolet light, wind-driven

Chinking log homes means sealing the gaps between the logs with a flexible, weather-tight compound that flexes as the wood shrinks, swells, and settles. Most

Log homes are energy-efficient in practice even though log walls do not post impressive R-values on paper, because solid wood stores heat and a tight

With special care, maintenance and attention to details, a log home can become a family house passed from one generation to the other.

A sloped lot usually costs less to buy and more to build on, while a flat lot costs more up front and less to develop.

Low-maintenance cabin landscaping comes down to six things: mulch heavily, plant native species, water on demand instead of on a timer, choose slow-growing shrubs, simplify

Choosing between log home kits comes down to three questions: how much space you actually need, how you live day to day, and what the

The three fireplace ideas worth considering in a log home are wood, gas and electric, and the right one depends on how you will actually