Design & Construction

Tips for Keeping Your Log Home Comfortable This Winter

There's nothing cozier than a roaring fire in a toasty log home during the winter months. As many log home owners can attest, log homes do an amazing job of retaining heat on those snowy days. If y...

Building a Log Home That's Winter-Ready

Log homes have been around almost as long as humans. Trees are a handy renewable resource, they're plentiful, and they're the perfect building material for warm, sturdy homes. In Michigan especiall...

A Look at Log Homes Through Time

While the log cabin is a classic American icon, we usually don’t think about the actual roots of log dwellings. To us, it’s synonymous with ideals like American individualism, and it reminds us of ...

Choosing a roof for your log home can be one of the most difficult choices of your construction process. Log homes require different maintenance than the typical house, and they’re stylistically mu...

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, power washing or corn-blasting, depending on the con...

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 recommend as much as 24 inches). 2. Employ generous...

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 homes can be built with many types of wood, it’s up...

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 for. You can even smell the fresh wood in every no...

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 on for days, weeks or even months. You receive a fe...

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, allowing your home’s wood to last much longer. Fi...