| Although living may be a bit more efficient *inside* in | | | | stone, mud, and brick type homes. |
| traditional housing, a modern home with all of today's | | | | Current Usage |
| conventional trimmings doesn't quite allow us to | | | | Today, very few homes are built with logs. In fact, |
| enjoy nature the way that log homes do. Modern | | | | it's a real treat to even find one. Still, they haven't |
| homes are really built for communal living - complete | | | | lost their appeal because more and more people are |
| with a residential plumbing/sewer system, paved | | | | building homes in this style. |
| streets, shopping centers, and a piece of the | | | | In fact, modern versions of log homes can be quite |
| electrical grid. But in order to function the way that | | | | surprising. They certainly offer more than the |
| they're built to function, nature sometimes becomes | | | | one-room houses available in the early 15th to 17th |
| an inconvenience and is often cleared away to | | | | century. Today's log homes are built with multiple |
| accommodate for easy travel. | | | | rooms, attics, high porches, large glass windows, and |
| Some people try to incorporate nature into modern | | | | more. Because they fit into the 'natural' decor of rural |
| living with things like gardens, plants, and animal | | | | living, they demand a lifestyle that appreciates a little |
| features. And this is fine for environments that | | | | bit of 'living in the rough' or those who just want to |
| provide ample space for this kind of lifestyle. | | | | get away from suburban and city life. |
| However to return to nature - true nature that is - | | | | If you enjoy having access to nature's own live |
| there's nothing like a log home plotted in the midst of | | | | entertainment, mountain views, and expansive lakes, |
| a deep wooded area. | | | | then perhaps a log home is appropriate for you. |
| Log homes completely assimilate nature into one | | | | Application |
| complete lifestyle without the need to artificially grow | | | | Your construction company can help you design a |
| plant life or attract animals. Log homes put the | | | | log cabin that works with you, your family, and the |
| homeowner in the unique position of enjoying these | | | | environment in which you want to live. The important |
| things right from the living room window. | | | | thing to remember is that you want to create a |
| Definition | | | | balance between your dependency upon modern |
| A log home is a house built of wood - usually in a | | | | conveniences and the natural gifts that surround you. |
| wooded area. Distinguishing a | | | | You don't want to clear out a plot of wild land for |
| log home from the many different types of others | | | | example just for the sake of having a twenty-foot |
| is that it's constructed with actual tree logs. Like | | | | driveway. On the other hand, you don't want to build |
| traditional homes, a log home is built from a | | | | a log home in an area that's hard to access without a |
| foundation and it's built with walls, doors, and a roof. | | | | backpack or mountain picks either! |
| All that's needed to start is a constructor well skilled | | | | After you and your construction company design a |
| in home construction and logging! | | | | log home that works for you, the both of you can |
| History | | | | start discussing the type of wood that's appropriate |
| Log homes are synonymous with colonial living, but | | | | and whether you want the wood exposed in the |
| some groups of Native Americans built log homes | | | | home's interior (which by the way adds tremendous |
| long before Columbus set foot on North American | | | | appeal). |
| land. They were used for the same reasons that | | | | Construction of your home will begin with pre-milled |
| colonial families built them, however unlike the log | | | | logs or actual tree trunks placed atop a perimeter of |
| homes of the past that we're familiar with, Native | | | | rocks. (The rocks prevent the logs from rotting on |
| American log homes housed several families at one | | | | the ground.) And construction ends with stuffing gaps |
| time - even housing an entire community in some | | | | within the stacked logs with smaller pieces of wood |
| cases. As the European population increased, the | | | | and then Plastering the home's interior. Welcome |
| need for faster, easier, and cheaper construction | | | | home. |
| methods grew and the log cabin was replaced with | | | | |