| Living in a log home indeed sounds special. It is like a | | | | and appearance. According to log constructors, milled |
| closer walk to nature. Nowadays, people consider | | | | logs are not logs at all. It is because they have lost |
| shelter not only as a basic need but as well as a | | | | the natural properties that would let them be worthy |
| niche of their sel-expression and sense of style. | | | | of such term. |
| For some people, living in a log house or log home is | | | | In retrospect, handcrafted log homes were started |
| extra special, how did log homes start to become | | | | to be built ages ago. It all started in Eastern Europe, |
| popular? | | | | Russia, Scandinivia and other nearby. It was brought |
| Technically speaking, a log home is the same thing as | | | | to North America in the 1700s by Scandinivian |
| a log cabin in the old times. It is a house typically | | | | settlers. With this, other colonizers were also |
| made from logs that have not been milled into | | | | interested and adopted the idea. The 1920s serves |
| conventional lumber. The difference between a log | | | | as the advent of the firdt-milled log home. These logs |
| home and a log cabin is that- a log home is more | | | | were not the same as the conventional-real logs. |
| complete. It possesses all aprts of a typical house | | | | Instead, they are shaped and were already cut. |
| these times. On the other hand, log cabin is smaller | | | | As time passes, there are different means of building |
| and it was used as a hunter's hide-out in old times. | | | | log homes were developed. They are as follows: |
| Handcrafted and milled are two of the different | | | | -Scandinavian Full-Scribe |
| types of log homes. The former is typically made of | | | | -Flat-on- flat |
| logs that have peeled but are otherwise unchanged | | | | -Milled log homes often are constructed with a |
| from their original natural appearance when they | | | | variation of "flat-on-flat" |
| were trees. A milled home is one that is made of of | | | | -Butt-and-Pass |
| logs that have run through a manufacturing process | | | | These days more and more people are building log |
| to remove natural features and flaws of the log and | | | | homes which utilize milled variety since they are |
| convert them into timbers that are consistent in size | | | | lesser expensive. |