Terry Schager’s home sits in a valley at the base of Hogback Mountain, in Greenville County high country only a few miles from the North Carolina state line. The exterior is made of white pine logs on ...

In 2003, Tom and Beth Galati built their dream house — a frontier-style four-bedroom cabin in Mt. Jackson, Va. Like most log homes, it arrived in a kit — in this case, a $130,000 shipment of about 200 ...

February 17, 2005 Fancy a home for constructed from 100% sweat equity? The Log Home Builder's Association of North America offers a two-day class on building log homes from scratch. The next class ...

“The lodgepole doesn’t make for a great log home; it makes for a great telephone pole,” he added with a chuckle. Architecture styles tend to come and go, but there are a handful of classic home ...

Weston, Conn., just got its first log home, and the neighbors are furious. Convinced that the cabin, made from a kit of precut parts, would reduce the value of their property, they petitioned the ...

They are icons of the Canadian landscape, rough-hewn testaments to both a pioneering spirit and an unforgiving climate. But now, log homes are weathering a different adversary – modern building codes.

HAMILTON, Mont. -- When Dick Neville proposed building log homes for a living in Montana in the mid-1960s, his banker advised him against it. "He said, 'Dick, get out of it before you hurt yourself,' ...

When settlers first came to B.C. in the 1800s, many built log homes out of necessity. Today, log homes are more of a luxury. Whether it’s a cozy little trapper’s cabin in the woods or a large fishing ...