How To Choose The Right Doors For Your Home

A collection of facts about doors that will come in handy when choosing the placement of your interior and exterior doors, plus tips that should help when deciding which type of doors to buy.

Reasons This Old House Is The Best Magazine For Log Home Owners

It's hard for me NOT to re-subscribe to the 3 log home magazines I've been subscribing to. I mean, we got so much great info from them during that first year of the subscription. But now, we're craving more than these magazines seem willing to provide. If you're contemplating resubscribing to a log home magazine, I'm here to tell you, you may want to check out This Old House magazine instead. Especially if you're already living in your log home... chances are, the log home magazines won't have much to offer you at all.

Log Home Landscape Ideas: Quick Tips Before You Start Landscaping!

Take it from us... prior to building a log home, it would be wise to have your contractor survey your lot ahead of time and remove any trees that could compromise your log home site. Several trees fell a little too close to our log home, and we were inches away from serious log home damage.

Looking For Green Log Home Products & Building Supplies?

Here's a great list of environmentally-friendly green log home products and suppliers. So, if you're trying to make your currently log home more green or you'll soon be building your very own green log home, here are some companies that will make your life easier!

Outdoor Dog Furniture For Your Log Dog

Log home owners with dogs may be interested in incorporating some "log" features into your dog's lifestyle too. For example, outdoor dog houses, porches, barns, and beds for dogs. Check 'em out...

Pictures Of Rustic Columns & Poles Inside Log Homes ...Some Are Real Trees!

If log homes are your thing and 'rustic' is your game, then you're going to love these pictures of REAL tree accents and the use of rustic looking logs -- or heavy timber -- inside a log home. You'll also see photos of fun ways to incorporate trees and heavy timber logs into the EXTERIOR characteristics of your log home.

Why We Decided Against Composite Decking For Our Log Home

After a lot of research and homework, we've actually decided AGAINST using composite decking at this time. It wasn't an easy decision. Far from it. In fact, we were honestly looking forward to trying it. But the cons outweighed the pros at this point in time. Here's why...

Question About Staggered Shake Shingle Siding

A question: 'We are in the beginning stages of building our log home and seriously thinking of using Staggered Shake Shingle Vinyl Siding on the second story. Our reasoning for doing so was the maintenance of the home. Have you heard or have you seen any log homes which have done the same?'

The Exterior Doors We Chose For Our Log Home

We recently picked out 7 exterior doors for our new log home. Here are the ones we selected...

Exterior Doors: Should You Buy Paint Grade Or Stain Grade Doors?

It didn't make sense to me why our decision to paint vs stain the exterior doors couldn't be made after-the-fact -- after we had installed the doors -- and why it would affect the price of the doors anyway. But after a conversation with a contractor about this, I learned that we should always say we want a stain-grade door, rather than a paint-grade door. Here's why...