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 ...

Designing a practical and usable log cabin isn’t easy. The planning stage of a log cabin build is the single most important stage. Spend enough time on this stage and your build will be successful.

Architecture styles tend to come and go, but there are a handful of classic home structures that continue to stand the tests of time. The log cabin is most definitely one of those. Although the large ...

Architecture styles tend to come and go, but there are a handful of classic home structures that continue to stand the tests of time. The log cabin is most definitely one of those. Although the large, ...

Some residents in Colville Lake, N.W.T., are using materials from the land to build their future homes. Colville Lake, like all communities across the N.W.T., is dealing with a housing shortage which ...

Kyle Tutcho walks across the logs carefully laid out on the snow, explaining his vision for the home he's planning in Colville Lake, N.W.T. "I've got plans, blueprints to build a log house right on ...

It will take a 19-ton crane and two days of round-the-clock work. But by Saturday, a three-bedroom, 1,880-square-foot log home, complete with landscaping and stylish decor, will be built inside ...

Architecture styles tend to come and go, but there are a handful of classic home structures that continue to stand the tests of time. The log cabin is most definitely one of those. Although the large ...