A Canadian couple worked countless hours to create a zen atmosphere in their beloved timber-frame home. Inspired by timber-frame Japanese temples and churches they visited in Japan in 1996, Hélène Séguin and her husband Vincent Lavoie fell in love with timber-frame...
Life is joyful for a retired couple who built and live in a stunning timber-frame home located on 2,500 acres rich in American history. The Hells Canyon Wilderness Area in Western Idaho and Eastern Oregon is known for its rugged terrain and rich history. Resting in...
With abundant lake activities and majestic views, Lake Barkley in Kentucky was the ideal spot for a retired couple to build a beautiful home designed for entertaining. When Jamie and Ann Buskill decided to build a vacation home on Lake Barkley in southwestern...
The airy feel of glass enhances the beauty of log and timber homes by providing a visual contrast to the logs and timbers, adding interest and personality to a home. Glass brings in natural light and offers views of the surrounding landscape, allowing nature to...
A lakefront home provides extraordinary living for this couple and their three children. Rob and Chris’s home on Whitefish Lake in Montana is not a place for mere residing. It’s a home made for laughing, loving, swimming, entertaining, relaxing, dancing, and playing....
The master bedroom is more than just a place to sleep—it’s your place to retreat from the world. In an ideal world, my master bedroom would be a sanctuary. A retreat from the stressors and demands of everyday life, it would be quiet and cozy with a massive closet to...
A West Virginia couple with vision and determination crafts an eco-friendly cabin in the Appalachian Mountains. Appalachian Log Homes, based in Knoxville, Tennessee, prides itself on providing unique character logs to their clients when requested. “I will never...
Sweet dreams come easier at the end of a hard day if you sleep in a peaceful bedroom retreat. Your choices of color, textures, art, furniture, accessories and access to the outdoors (or not) can create a timeless retreat that suits your lifestyle. Whether you want to...
Meticulous design and construction result in a showcase cabin. When Bigfork, Montana, residents Doug and Marylee Syme take on a project, they are both all in. The husband-wife team are business partners and co-owners of Syme and Syme, Inc. The company melds Doug’s...
Gazing through the Glass Forest® of windows and flared-root cedar trees at this magnificent off-grid Idaho cabin brings the outside in and the inside out. The feeling of immersion within the natural surroundings of the Andert home is no accident but rather the...
Covid-19 changed the way we grocery shop, eat out and cook at home, resulting in some great new kitchen and pantry designs. If your home is anything like mine, the kitchen is where the action is. When my kids were young, it is where we shared family meals. As they...
An off-grid rustic post-and-beam cabin brings generations together on Vancouver Island. When Dave first broached the topic of purchasing a cabin on Horne Lake on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, his wife Cathy was slow to agree. “I thought he was crazy,” she...
