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.
Here's what sets these iconic log homes apart.
Far from dull, the rough-in process offers homeowners an opportunity to personalize the look and feel of their finished home.
The latest update from our Dirt-to-Done log home journey:
Choose how involved you’ll be in your log home’s construction.
Here are five reasons why a full log home is a smart decision and not just a pretty face.
In this installment of our Dirt to Done series, here’s a look at how Zach Parmeter approached the design process of his own home — and what he wishes he could change.
Our resident builder shares his top five solutions to save money during the construction of your log home.
A must-read for log home lovers.
Want to know how a pro goes about picking the right property and preparing it for building? Check in with third-generation log home devotee, Zach Parmeter, as we enter Part 2 of his journey to craft a custom log home.
When the ground is blanketed in white, keep the color going year-round with plants that pop.
Enlisting the services of an experienced, professional builder will speed up construction and greatly reduce the chance for erro…
Figure out what you need — and what you’ll get — from the different log cabin package options. In general, you’ll find three lev…
When building a log home, it's only natural to have more than a few questions. Luckily, the experts at our Log & Timber Home Show…
Whether you prefer tidy, uniform logs or those that are perfectly imperfect, there’s a log home producer with the right style for…
You can’t prevent extreme weather and natural threats, but with strategic design, you can protect your log home from them.
With a few minor interior finishes and the exterior stain and landscape complete, the construction process has ended. Now, Gary and Becky can enjoy log home living.
You’ll spend your time enjoying the views from your waterfront log home — not worrying about maintenance — when you follow these …
Save your “blank slates” for art and interior design projects. When it comes to landscaping a waterfront log home, starting from …
Like many log homeowners living in rural areas, our Log Home Journey couple turns to a well to supply their water.
No good landscape job is complete without some hard, non-living materials to provide contrast. Even simple boulders can make natu…
Figure out what kind of custom home you should build.
Are you looking for a Rocky Mountain high or a little house on the prairie? Steep pitches and flatlands are the two ends of the p…
Most likely you are going to build a hybrid log or timber home.
See how these homeowners customized a floor plan to make their log home LEED to a T.
Before you head to the nursery this weekend, know your soil types and what grows best in them.
With the shell enclosed and the home weather tight, the next step in the construction of Gary and Becky’s log home is to power it…
