| Log cabins have long been breaking new grounds as | | | | condition, without altering, modifying, or changing any |
| an enigmatic emblem of an American character. The | | | | of its features. Handcrafted log cabins usually create |
| very first log cabins were introduced in the 1600s by | | | | an impression of a more rustic, rugged-looking cabin. |
| Scandinavians. These earliest forms of log cabins | | | | This is because logs used in making this particular log |
| were constructed like wooden fences. Before, they | | | | cabin style have form that is more irregular. |
| use logs with different sizes set perpendicularly in a | | | | However, with some special devices and expertise, |
| gutter to produce the walls of the cabin. Today, log | | | | most handcrafters would painstakingly peel off the |
| cabins are more meticulously crafted, with logs placed | | | | bark from the logs and match each log into the right |
| parallel to each other and connected on the last part | | | | place to form the wall. Since handcrafted log cabins |
| with "notches." Log cabins have been very popular in | | | | are more laborious than manufactured log cabins, the |
| the United States because of the amount of trees | | | | length of time needed to finish handcrafted log cabins |
| that are of great quantity. For this reason, building log | | | | would be longer. What's more, the production of |
| cabins had been the cheapest and the most | | | | handcrafted log cabins would normally costs more |
| affordable homes that can easily be built by any | | | | than the manufactured log cabins because the work |
| American. In spite of its similarities on designs and use | | | | is arduously made by hands only. Handcrafted log |
| of materials, log cabins are not created on the same | | | | cabins were first constructed in Eastern Europe, |
| level. Log cabins may vary according to the styles | | | | Russia, and Scandinavia. In fact, it was the |
| they were built. Generally, there are two kinds of log | | | | Scandinavians that introduced log cabins to the United |
| cabins according to styles. To know more about this | | | | States. Between these two styles of log cabins, |
| matter, here is a comprehensive and detailed | | | | manufactured or milled log cabins are much preferred |
| explanation about the difference between the two | | | | by many people. This is because manufactured or |
| log cabin styles: 1. Manufactured or milled log cabins | | | | milled log cabins are more affordable and easier to |
| As its name suggests, manufactured log cabins use | | | | build than the handcrafted log cabins. This is because |
| logs that are "milled" or sometimes known as | | | | with manufactured log cabins, machines do the work; |
| "machine-profiled." Logs used in this particular style of | | | | hence, the job is easily drawn to a close without |
| log cabin have undergone through a manufacturing | | | | much difficulty. Moreover, manufacturers of milled |
| procedure. This is usually done to remove the | | | | logs have more skills in marketing their products and |
| inherent features of the logs as well as well as its | | | | elaborating the benefits of opting for a manufactured |
| flaws or defects. After which, these types of logs | | | | log cabin style. In this way, more and more people |
| are changed into good lumbers that have | | | | are enticed to resort to manufactured log cabins than |
| proportionate sizes and shapes. Hence, you can | | | | the handcrafted log cabin styles. Whatever style you |
| expect that a manufactured log cabin style use only | | | | want to employ when building your log cabin, it is |
| logs that are standardized and unvarying when it | | | | very worthy to note that log cabins had |
| comes to sizes and shapes. In this case, when | | | | tremendously grown form the typical rustic kind of |
| building manufactured log cabins, it is important to | | | | homes built far from the city. With the many benefits |
| note that the dimensions of the whole cabin are | | | | of log cabins, most of the Americans build these |
| directly proportional to each other. There would not | | | | types of houses not just as a vacation home but |
| be much difficulty in identifying these things because | | | | more of a residential. In fact, surveys show that |
| logs are of the same sizes. Hence, with manufactured | | | | many homeowners have preferred to adorn their log |
| log cabins, you can expect that the length of a | | | | cabins with more embellishments making it more |
| certain log would naturally be the total length of one | | | | costly than the typical homes. That, indeed, makes |
| partition or fence of a log cabin. 2. Handcrafted log | | | | log cabins definite part of the conventional type of |
| cabins This particular style of log cabin is | | | | American dwelling. |
| characteristically made from logs that were stripped | | | | Time-tested log cabin styles come to life at written |
| off with their bark. However, their natural | | | | by Charles H. Smith . |
| characteristics as trees were retained on its natural | | | | |