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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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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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The Secrets to Floor Plan Perfection
Not sure if you’re short-changing your square footage? In danger of over-designing? Keep these floor plan considerations in mind …
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How to Build Your Log Home on a Difficult Site
In this download we share some specific cases of tricky sites and how to make them work.
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Money Saving Design Tips: A Builder’s Point of View
Your builder is a wealth of information. Tapping into his or her experience early on could save you thousands on design, material…
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When to Consider When Building a Log Home on the Water
It's no secret waterfront properties make idyllic settings for log homes. But there are a few things you should keep in mind when…
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How to Get the Perfect Log Home Design For You
Our six keys to getting the perfect log home design.
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5 Tips for Choosing a Log Home Site
What should you look for when you’re shopping for land for your log home site? These five tips will help you narrow the field.
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Log Home Package/Kit Options
A la carte or all-inclusive — buying a log home starts with the parts of the log home package/kit.
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Profiles, Interfaces and Corner Styles for Log Homes
When selecting the size, shape and look of the logs, the log home buyer is spoiled for choice. Here’s how to navigate your log profile and corner style options.
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Log Home Destinations: Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Your log home dream can come true in the peaceful, lakeside town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. We chatted with Eureka Springs City Advertising & Promotion Commission and found that Eureka Springs is not only a great place to visit, it's a beautiful and spirited place to build, buy, and live in a log home.
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Honoring Veterans with Operation FINALLY HOME
Join us at Log Home Living as we celebrate, commemorate and honor our United States veterans and service men and women this Veterans' Day.
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The Log Home Lending Landscape
If you’re applying for financing to build your log home, here’s what you can expect on the lending horizon.
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Truly Spooky Tales of Haunted Log Cabins
What is it about scary movies that make them so much more frightening when set in a log cabin in the woods? Explore these five haunted log cabins across the country with stories that will make your skin crawl, just in time for Halloween!
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Life After Combat: A New Start and a New Home
A mortgage-free home helps a wounded officer start a new chapter in a new home.
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Expert Tips for Planning a Log Home Addition
Calculating a log home addition doesn’t have to be difficult. Follow these builder’s tips and you can score an A+.
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Considering All Angles of an Open-Concept Plan
An open-concept plan is all the rage these days, but is it right for you?
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American Presidents Born in Log Cabins
At least seven United States Presidents were born in log cabins, which only reaffirms that great things really do start with log …
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How to Customize Different Log Home Styles
Take one part architectural heritage and two parts highly functional design. Mix it well, and you have the perfect recipe for a b…
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A New Log Home Offers a Veteran a New Start
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. Read the story about a United States Army veteran wounded in combat who received a new log home through Operation FINALLY HOME.
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4 Summery Log Home Outdoor Spaces
In summer, log home outdoor spaces are an essential extension of your main living areas. Invest a little time and thought into them so that they really shine.
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The Log Home Journey: Meet the Murphys
Over the course of the next year, we'll follow the Murphys, a family who had big log home dreams to own their own & are working t…
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Smart Design Ideas for Small Log Homes
Get inspired with these nine tips to create BIG style in a small log home.
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5 Tips For a Long Distance Log Home Build
You are here. Your dream is there. Here’s how to make a long distance log home build a success.
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How to Customize a Standard Log Home Floor Plan
A couple gives their dream log home in New Hampshire a personal touch by customizing a plan from Coventry Log Homes.
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Douglas County, Minnesota: Log Home Destinations
Located in the heart of the Central Lakes Region, Douglas County, Minnesota is all about woods, water and winter.
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Planning to Build A Log Home: The Final Details
You've chosen a floor plan, secured your land, and are ready to break ground--but are you truly ready to build? We've compiled a …
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What It Takes to Build Your Own Log Home
Should you hire a pro or build your own log home? Time and money will help you decide.
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The Difference Between Log and Timber Homes
Log and timber homes may have a lot of similarities, but they are very different types of houses. Let’s explore what unites the…

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