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