Building Tips
Before breaking ground on your own log home project, check out our log home building tips, put together to offer expert advice on hiring professionals, choosing materials and navigating the construction process.
How to Customize a Small Cabin
There are ways to accommodate a small log cabin without compromising design integrity.
Saving Trees: You Can Insist On Building without Killing
Log Homes Illustrated gives you the steps to take to ensure your dream home will have a dream setting.
Energy-efficient Log Home Construction
Here are the best and least-expensive ways to build a log home that will conserve energy (and your money).
Building on a Slope: What It Means for Your Log Home
Get answers to the most common questions about building a log home on a sloped site, plus, seven quick tips for success.
Constructing a Log Home Guesthouse | Log Home Diary Entry #3 | Hearthstone Inc.
Task at hand: Building and construction of our new log guesthouse.
How To Build an Old-School Log Cabin
Want a simple log cabin to call home? Follow this advice for building no-frills log homes.
Log Home Building Ideas: 3 Reasons to Stop Worrying and Start Building
Take advantage of the current housing market by building your log home now.
Building a Log Guesthouse Diary: Meet the Merrills
A behind-the-scenes look at the planning, designing and building of a Hearthstone Inc. log guesthouse.
How To Build a Log Home Quickly Without Cutting Corners
Want to get a getaway log cabin built in 6 months? Here are 6 ways to make sure your dream log home happens with time to spare.
Cabin Building Tips: Building a Cost-Effective Log Cabin
From choosing the perfect site to selecting finishing materials, this builder and home-decor guru give their best advice on how...
7 Tips for Planning, Building and Finishing Your Basement | Savvy Builder
Seven ways to create a functional and affordable basement for your log home.
How To: Plan An Affordable Log Home | 5 Tips
Building a log home that is easy on your wallet starts well before you break ground. Save loads of money in the design phase by following these hints gleaned from log home experts.
Handcrafted Log Homes | The Truth About Handcrafting a Log Home
From the motorized tools used to the shape of logs, learn more about some of the defining characteristics of handcrafted log ho...
What is a Handcrafted Log Home?
What are handcrafted log homes? And what is handcrafting all about? Find the answers to these questions and more with our handc...
Learn About Handcrafted Log Homes: Chat with Eric Gordon
What are the hallmarks of handcrafted log homes? Find out in this chat with the vice president of Michigan-based Maple Island L...
Learn About Being a Log Home Dealer: Chat with Dana Delano
What exactly is a log home dealer? Find out what being a log home dealer entails in this chat with Dana Delano of Ward Cedar Lo...
Building a Root Cellar or Pantry into Your Basement Design
Ditch that energy-sucking (and jam-packed) second fridge and build a root cellar or cool pantry into your basement design.