Savings can be found in every aspect of log home construction. Global thinking, seeing the project in its entirety, is critical to cost-effective log home construction. Every aspect of a log home project requires planning and foresight and an eye for the practical and...
One Story or More?
There are pros and cons to building a one-story versus multi-story home. Building a new home comes with a multitude of decisions, but one of the most important and foundational questions is how many stories you want your home to be. As with most design decisions,...
Nine Steps to Log Home Life
Tips for a seamless journey to building and living in your new dream home. Producers of timber frame and log homes report that interest from homebuyers in 2021 is at unprecedented highs. Buyers are seeing the historically low interest rates and the absence of new...
DIY Projects to Save Money
Taking on projects that save money may be an option for homeowners with some log and timber building projects. When the log or timber home they have always wanted begins to take shape, some homeowners bring their own personal skills to the project, pitching in with...
Love at First Sight?
The details—both large and small—of your log & timber home’s exterior make it inviting for visitors and hint at what’s inside. As the saying goes, you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. The term “curb appeal” is often used when listing a home...
Smart Money
Savings can be found in every aspect of log home construction. Global thinking, seeing the project in its entirety, is critical to cost-effective log home construction. Every aspect of a log home project requires planning and foresight and an eye for the practical...
Ways to Build a Low-Maintenance Home
Smart upfront design and building decisions plus attention to annual upkeep will keep your log & timber home healthy for generations. The maintenance-free home—log, timber, or otherwise—is an illusion. But the low-maintenance log or timber home is within reach....
Building a Forever Home
Universal design makes a home easy to navigate regardless of age or physical ability. We all know that as we age, our needs change. That minivan that allowed you to shuttle kids to soccer practice isn’t all that practical when you have just one or two passengers,...
Asking the Right Questions & Gathering Information
Log home experts offer advice about turning a log home dream into a reality. A log home is not an impulse buy. For some the decision to build a log home was made years before they actually began the process of transforming a long-held dream into a lifetime...
Making Low Maintenance Real
Smart upfront design and building decisions plus attention to annual upkeep will keep your log & timber home healthy for generations. The maintenance-free home—log, timber, or otherwise—is an illusion. But the low-maintenance log or timber home is within reach....
Building a Home from Afar
By choosing the right builder and using technology for building updates, long-distance building can be similar to building next door. With interest rates and the stock of available new homes at record lows, perhaps you’ve decided it’s time to build that second home...
Completing the Perfect Package
Companies in the log and timber home industry are ready to work with prospective buyers to customize just the right package. When prospective log and timber homeowners decide to take the plunge, there may be a moment when the “to do” list seems a bit...