In the snowy woods of a valley west of this college town, John and Mary Beth Cook have taken up a version of mountain living amended for the modern world. Last year, they completed and moved into a ...

TRUNK ROAD -- Forget the air compressor. Leave the cordless drill at home. All you really need to build a good quality, ultra-efficient heat-retaining log building is a muscular chain saw, a few hand ...

This is the beginning of a series discussing tools used in the process of log building. Of course, a lot of these tools can be used for many other applications, but log building will be the main focus ...

When the concept of log homes was introduced in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe over 200 years ago, it was initially viewed as a stale idea of building dwellings with rustic back woods. Over the years, ...

FAIRMOUNT, Ill. (AP) -- Log cabins have come a long way from their simple, primitive past. Long gone are the days when a log cabin had a single room, one door and inside walls chinked with clay or ...

If Clint Greer hadn’t developed a love of Lincoln Logs as a child growing up in North Carolina, there probably wouldn’t be a ...

Log homes are much beloved for their nostalgic appeal but one downside is that they typically form leaks between the timbers. Luckily, True North Log Homes has come up with a couple of nice tricks to ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Tony DiOrio wanted a rustic home, but his heart sank when his real-estate agent drove him to a West Milford, N.J., log house in 1999. “It was not really what I was thinking of,” ...

We confess. We are guilty. Think of the gorgeous log and timber frame homes that are featured in newspapers, magazines and all those home and garden TV shows. The log homes are usually huge, accented ...

They say they did it on a budget and did much of the work themselves — including designing the home. But to look at the finished product, no one would guess there were any budget concerns or the home ...