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Design Your Log Home

Here you'll find Log Home Living's best advice on designing your log home or log cabin--both inside and out. Get tips for every room in your house, including inspiration for your log home's furniture, windows, fireplaces, lighting fixtures, furniture, decks, flooring and more.

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5 Tips to Hardscaping Your Property
Working with your property's natural features can make hardscape strategies more appealing and affordable.
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12 Snow-Covered Log Cabins
If you have to be stuck in a winter snow storm, wouldn’t you rather be in a log home? These 12 snow-covered log cabins offer warmth a traditional build can't compete with.
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How to Add Groundcover to Your Log Home Yard
There are plenty of advantages (and one potential drawback) to using groundcover on your log home property.
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5 Small Log Homes You'll Fall in Love With
These charming, small log homes are just a few of the memorable cabins our staff has fallen in love with over the years.
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7 Smart Storage Options for Your Small Log Home
Small log homes demand smart storage options. These clever options will help you stash your stuff in style.
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6 Keys to Get the Perfect Log Home Design for You
PLUS get access to nine floor plans from our partner, Katahdin Cedar Log Homes
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7 Log Home Kitchens Perfect for Thanksgiving
These 7 log home kitchens will inspire you to make a beautiful Thanksgiving feast for friends and family this year and keep the entertaining vibe going for years to come.
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6 Stylish Lights For the Log Home
When it comes to illuminating your log home's spaces, let us shine a little light on the subject. these 6 stylish lights for the log home are perfect for your space.
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Backyard Greenhouses: Get Fresh Vegetables Year-Round
Backyard greenhouses can boost your gardening efforts all year-round
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5 Structural Design Details to Incorporate
If a log shell is like a finely tailored suit or a custom-designed dress, then a home's architectural details are the jewelry tha…
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The Log Home Journey: Decorate a Kitchen on a Budget
The kitchen truly is the heart of the home, and as the Murphys’ house inches closer to completion, they don’t miss a beat when it comes to outfitting their kitchen on a budget.
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Welcome Guests: Embellishments for Your Front Door
Don’t knock the importance of your doorways. These handsome embellishments will help set the tone for your log home.
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Your Guide to Replacing Windows in a Log Home
4 common questions (and answers) about log home window replacement.
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Have Pets? Install a Dutch Door for Instant Charm
If you're on the hunt to create a kid-friendly, pet-friendly environment, a Dutch door is the way to go.
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5 Reasons to Buy Reclaimed Hardwood
The experts at Peachey Hardwood Flooring share their top five reasons to choose reclaimed hardwood flooring.
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Log Home Bathroom Design Ideas
Looking for bathroom strategies that will hold water? From powders to primaries, these four foundations of good log home bathroom…
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Edible Landscaping at Your Log Home
Planning a lush, natural setting for your log home? Edible options let you have your landscape and eat it too!
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Log Home Journey: Kitchen Creativity
The kitchen truly is the heart of the home, and as the Murphys’ house inches closer to completion, they don’t miss a beat when it…
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Log Home Primary Bathroom Design Tips
With proper planning, your primary bathroom’s design and function can be the source of some very “suite” dreams.
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Favorite Spaces: Kitchens and Baths
Log home kitchens and baths afford unlimited opportunities to be imaginative and let your creativity come through - get inspired …
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Creating a Getaway to Share
Real people. Real solutions.
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Made in the Shade with Trees
Strategically selected trees provide beauty and long-term protection for your log home.
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Small Talk with HGTV’s Property Brothers
Log Home Living's editor Donna Peak talks to HGTV's real estate/renovation pros Jonathan and Drew Scott (aka, the Property Brothers) about the “tiny house” movement.
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The 7 Essentials for Log Home Kitchens
Plus, 19 of-the-moment trends to try now!
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Starting a Backyard Chicken Flock
With hobby farming making a comeback, here are 3 musts for starting your own backyard chicken flock.
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10 Outdoor Spaces to Cure Log Cabin Fever
Escape to sunnier locales with these inspiring home tours.
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6 Relaxing Log Home Bathrooms
Bathrooms are one of the most important rooms in a house - don't them get overlooked while doing your dream log home designing!
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17 Design Ideas for Every Room
At Log Home Living, we get to speak with a wide variety of designers and architects who share some great advice with us. We’ve compiled 17 of the smartest tips we’ve gotten to help you plan the perfect log home, room by room.

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