M. Curtis McCoy

The fastest way to compare log home floor plans is to stop reading square footage and start tracing the trips you make

Log homes are not harder to maintain than conventional houses — they are maintained differently, and the yearly commitment is closer to

Log home maintenance is different from conventional home upkeep, but it is not harder — it simply moves outside, onto the logs.

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

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

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

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

Yes, you should stain your log home — a pigmented log home stain is the only thing standing between your walls and

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

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

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

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