Your log home is built and now it’s time to spruce up your outdoor surroundings.  

A tip before you start the landscaping around your log home: pay attention to the trees! (We learned the hard way.)

Following are some reasons why it’s important to survey your lot for trees that need to be removed, as well as a few tips for determining where you should plant any new trees, shrubs and flowers around your log home. 

The most important factors when you go to stain your log home are:

Weather

Timing

Diligence

Whether you do it yourself or hire a skilled professional, log home staining is a process that needs to be followed meticulously to ensure the protection of your log home.  

Having recently finished staining our log home in northern Michigan, let me share with you what to expect when you apply log home stain to your log cabin.