Design & Construction

4 Most Popular Roofing Materials for Log Homes

Choosing a roof for your log home can be one of the most difficult choices of your construction process. Log homes require different maintenance th...

Finishing and Sealing New Log Homes

1. Remove mill glaze, road grime and other foreign substances from the logs. You can do this by using a log wash solution (Wood ReNew), sanding, po...

Log Home Design Strategies

1. You can help or hinder maintenance issues with your home’s design. Start by raising the foundation at least 6 inches above grade (some experts r...

Choosing the right wood for your log home

Choosing the right wood species for your log home can sometimes prove to be hard when you don’t exactly know what you should be looking for. Log h...

10 tips to save money on log home constuction

How to Build your Dream Log Home - Without the Extra Expense Take a second and imagine your dream log home. It’s everything you have been wishing ...

Should I build my own log home?

Building your own log home displays pride and self-confidence. Imagine the emotion of finishing a project that you have worked so deliberately o...

Maintaining your Log Home: How the right finish can change everything

Finishing your log home just might the most important thing you can do for it. When your log home is properly finished it can prevent early decay,...

Relationship between Location and Log Home Design

If the design of your log home is very important to you, you probably have thought about its location and the environment around it a lot. You mig...

Tiny Homes: Log Cabin Edition

The average American home is fairly large, roughly around 2600 square feet. However, recently we’ve seen a shift to a different way of living. Dow...

Types of Log Homes: Which one's right for you?

When building a log home, there are a lot of choices to make and details to consider, one of which is deciding what type of log home would suit ...

5 Common myths about log homes

Exterior, horizontal, front elevation , Lutz residence, Leeland, Michigan, Maple Island Log Homes Log homes are not energy efficient Log homes ca...

How to choose the right logs for your log home

What are my logs going to look like? There are many factors that can change the exterior look of your log home. Weathering, wood preservatives, ...