In 2003, Tom and Beth Galati built their dream house — a frontier-style four-bedroom cabin in Mt. Jackson, Va. Like most log homes, it arrived in a kit — in this case, a $130,000 shipment of about 200 ...

February 17, 2005 Fancy a home for constructed from 100% sweat equity? The Log Home Builder's Association of North America offers a two-day class on building log homes from scratch. The next class ...

“The lodgepole doesn’t make for a great log home; it makes for a great telephone pole,” he added with a chuckle. Architecture styles tend to come and go, but there are a handful of classic home ...

They are icons of the Canadian landscape, rough-hewn testaments to both a pioneering spirit and an unforgiving climate. But now, log homes are weathering a different adversary – modern building codes.

When settlers first came to B.C. in the 1800s, many built log homes out of necessity. Today, log homes are more of a luxury. Whether it’s a cozy little trapper’s cabin in the woods or a large fishing ...