Log Cabins (logcabins.shtml) | Updated: 09-Oct-2008 - 13:36
Log Home A log home (or log house) is technically the same thing as a log cabin, a house typically made from logs that have not been milled into conventional lumber. The term log home is contemporary and preferred by most log home builders, while log cabin indicates a smaller, more rustic, log house, such as a hunting cabin in the woods.
There are twokinds of log homes: "handcrafted" and "milled" (also called "machine-profiled"), made with a log house moulder. A handcrafted log home is typically made of logs that have peeled but are otherwise essentially unchanged from their original natural appearance when they were trees. A milled or machine-profiled log home is one constructed of logs that have run through a manufacturing process to remove natural features and imperfections of the log and convert them into timbers that are consistent in size and appearance. Many handcrafted log builders do not consider milled logs a log at all, a position milled-log manufacturers disagree with.
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Nice page on Log Home Styles | |
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Be sure to read the President's rate when visiting the Khita site. |
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Founded in 1974, the International Log Builders' Association is a
worldwide organization dedicated to furthering the craft of
handcrafted log building, to the advancement of log builders, and to
the promotion of the highest standards of their trade. | |
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Log Home Builders Association of North America was founded to spread
information about "true and pure" building of log homes and log
cabins. Articles about log homes, warnings about kit log homes, a log
home forums, and student log home pictures. |
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A review of log cabins lived in by former presidents of the US