You've always dreamt of a log home. You've attended the log home shows, read the log home magazines, picked out your floor plan design and you're doing things to save money. 

Now all you need is the log home financing. Should be simple, right? 

Well, considering today's mortgage crisis... wrong! 

Below, I summarize our personal experience with log home financing, as well as provide information and tips that will hopefully help you finance your log home.

Jim and I are still fine-tuning our kitchen and bath choices. And we probably will continue to do so, right up until the day the appliances, countertops, backsplashes, and fixtures are installed.

There is so much variety in the products available to us today, that it is difficult to stay abreast of all the latest changes in bathroom and kitchen design, as well as the trends that are shaping the future of kitchens and baths.

Here, I've summarized a number of kitchen and bath trends that I've noticed while reading through home magazines, newspapers, and online reports in recent months.

The average bathroom remodeling project costs $15,800 and results in an increase in home value of about $12,400
 -- Remodeling Magazine, November 2007