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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Terry Schager’s home sits in a valley at the base of Hogback Mountain, in Greenville County high country only a few miles from the North Carolina state line. The exterior is made of white pine logs on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This isn’t your granddaddy’s hunting log cabin. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Landrum is a recently built, $4.9 million, 11,000 square-foot log home. The house was built over ...