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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.

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Real Estate Checklist | 7 Questions to Ask Your Real Estate Agent
You may know you want land, but you may not know what to ask when looking for it. That said, here are 7 questions to ask your real estate agent before taking the property plunge.
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Room-by-Room Rundown
Use this checklist to determine your needs versus wants in your new log home.
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Great Places | Moore County, Tennessee | Whiskey Lullaby
The birthplace of Jack Daniel's and the Tennessee walking horse serves up Southern hospitality in a picture-perfect pastoral setting.
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How To Buy Land for Your Future Log Home Online | Real Estate Tips
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.
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How To: Maximize Your Home's Main Level | 5 Tips for Log Home Plans
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.
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Great Places | Galena, Illinois | Vintage by Design
Northwestern Illinois is a blend of hearty folks, natural abundance and a delicate look back in time.
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Building Cost Per Square Foot | Why Cost Per Square Foot Doesn't Mean What You Think
Using square foot estimations as a predictor of building cost per square foot is unreliable and often leads to poor decision maki…
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Log Home Community: Timberwilde, North Carolina
This log home community spotlight highlights Timberwilde, North Carolina.
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Average Costs of Construction
Average costs to construct a log home.
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Creating the Perfect Small Log Home
Advice from designers on how to create the perfect small log home — check out these tips from log home industry experts.
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Food Storage Chart: Guidelines for Your Root Cellar/Pantry
Follow these optimal climate condition guidelines for your farm fresh produce.
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Finishing and Furnishing Our Log Home | Log Home Diary Entry #
With the construction behind us, it was time to finish off our log house and turn it into a real home.
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Planning Our Log Home | Log Home Diary Entry #1 | Wisconsin Log Homes
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Building Process Checklist | Weekly Checklist to Keep Your Project on Track
Use this 10-week checklist to make sure your log home dream is right on track.
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8 Tips to Prepare For Buying a Log Home
Eight financial tips to help prepare you for the process of building a log home.
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9 Ways to Cut Home-Building Costs
Doing more with less—stretch your dollars as far as they can go when planning your log home.
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Financing a Log Home, Financial Advice and Affordability Tips
Use these tips to start planning the financial foundation necessary for building your log home.
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Basic Log Home Questions: Getting Started Building
Here are some more thought-provoking questions to help prepare you for the task of building a new log home.
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Basic Log Home Questions: All About Logs
Here are a series of thought-provoking questions to help prepare you for the task of building a new log home.
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Building in the Desert | Log Home Location Tips | Log Home Living
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Design Your Home for Your Land | Location Tips for Log Homes
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…
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14 Questions to Ask When Planning a Log Home
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…
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Off the Radar: Local Secrets of Our Top 10 Log Home Locations
From the best fishing holes to the annual festivals everyone waits for, learn the secrets only the locals know about our Top 10 L…
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Chat With: Sarah Susanka, The Small-Home Superstar
Favoring small, well-designed homes over cookie-cutter McMansions, this groundbreaking architect and author shares the secrets of…
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Best Places to Build: #2 Harney County, Oregon
Harney County, Oregon, #2 on Log Home Living's List of Best Places to Build a Log Home.
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Best Places to Build: #3 St. Johnsbury, Vermont
St. Johnsbury, Vermont, #3 on Log Home Living's List of Best Places to Build a Log Home.
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Best Places to Build: #4 Pendleton County, West Virginia
Pendleton County, West Virginia, #4 on Log Home Living's List of Best Places to Build a Log Home.
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Best Places to Build: #5 Mountain Home, Arkansas
Mountain Home, Arkansas, #5 on Log Home Living's List of Best Places to Build a Log Home.

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