| When people think of log cabins, they often | | | | army of 3000 labourers. It was made from |
| associate them with Pioneering America and in | | | | 10,000 logs, 500,000 hand-slit cedar roof |
| their popular role in the United Kingdom, as | | | | shakes, and 166 kilometres of wooden |
| a garden building that can be converted into | | | | moulding. The log cabin was originally a |
| anything a family may need, such as a guest | | | | private club and had 186 guest rooms |
| room, an office, or a gym. | | | | contained in four wings that fanned from a |
| | | | hexagonal rotunda, with two additional wings |
| But there is more to the log cabin than you | | | | for the dining room and the ballroom. The |
| would expect. In Russia, there is the world's | | | | rotunda contained a six-sided fireplace that |
| tallest 'log cabin' that used to be home to | | | | rose more than 20 metres to the roof! In |
| gangsters and their molls. In Canada, there | | | | 1970, Canadian Pacific Hotels bought |
| is the world's largest 'log cabin' that is a | | | | Château Montebello and converted it from a |
| luxury hotel and has played host to Prime | | | | private club into a luxury resort opened to |
| Ministers, General Governors, Royalty, and | | | | the public. In 1981, Château Montebello |
| actors. | | | | hosted the G7 economic summit meeting and |
| | | | their leaders such as Margaret Thatcher, |
| The world's tallest log cabin is in | | | | Ronald Reagan, and Pierre Trudeau. Today it |
| Arkhangelsk, a town in Russia. It looks like | | | | is still a wonderful 'log cabin' for guests |
| it was designed and built by a bunch of | | | | and visitors. |
| toddlers as it stretches higgledy-piggledy | | | | |
| towards the sky, but it was in fact designed | | | | The world's tallest and widest log cabins are |
| and built by a rich Russian gangster called | | | | unique wonders, and you could create your own |
| Sutyagin. He started to build his log cabin | | | | unique and eye-catching log cabin for your |
| in 1992 and his intention was to build a | | | | garden, although maybe not on such a grand |
| two-story log cabin. However, after a visit | | | | scale! For example, you could have a double |
| to Japan and Norway, he decided he needed to | | | | level cabin with a circular staircase up to a |
| utilise the roof space as they had done in | | | | loft bedroom, an L-shaped log cabin with a |
| their house designs. So he added another | | | | covered porch or a hexagonal shaped log cabin |
| floor, and another floor, and | | | | surrounded by a veranda. Your log cabin could |
| another…..until he had added a total of | | | | have garden decking that links the log cabin |
| 13 floors reaching 144ft! His skyscraper log | | | | to your house, and lined with pots filled |
| cabin was initially home to his girlfriends, | | | | with country garden flowers that bring a |
| 18 chief executives of his construction | | | | profusion of colour and perfume to the whole |
| company, their various molls, and himself. | | | | area. Outdoor window boxes would allow |
| But times have changed and Sutyagin is | | | | flowers to bring colour to every corner of |
| virtually penniless after his third prison | | | | your log cabin. Fitted bay windows would |
| sentence. Consequently, his folly of a log | | | | create extra space inside your log cabin and |
| cabin has fallen into disrepair and only his | | | | help to give it a unique shape and outside |
| wife and he live in four rooms on the ground | | | | window shutters would add character and |
| floor of the log cabin. | | | | privacy to your log cabin. |
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| The world's largest log cabin is in | | | | Let your imagination flow, and take your |
| Montebello, Quebec, Canada. It is called | | | | ideas to a log cabin company that can help |
| Château Montebello, and it is a | | | | you create your own unique and distinctive |
| magnificent log cabin built in 1930 by an | | | | log cabin. |