Octagonal houses, always popular in leisure home settings, offer eight choices of view outlooks and an escape from ordinary room arrangements. This striking variation, with horizontal board siding and ...

In this episode of Cabin in the woods, we wrap up the framing on our necessary walls in order to start installing trusses. First we have to mark all of our trusses and make purlins. The first section, ...

Last week I was downloading some photos from my digital camera, and I stumbled across hundreds of forgotten photos I shot while my daughter’s new home was being built on Mount Desert Island, off the ...

A luxury estate in rural Hayward, Wisconsin, has hit the market for $4.25 million. Birch Point Lodge, constructed in 2012 with reclaimed red pine, birch paneling and log trusses and featuring a ...

Like a modern-day frontier family, Robert and Jan Hartman built their log home in Jackson, Wyo., with the timber, stone and other materials available in their area. Both the great room and the outside ...

Got a hankering for log homes? They've certainly come a long way since their Wild West settler roots. More typical of the modern-day equivalent is this 8,100-square-foot home listed at $1,995,000, ...

Lincoln Logs Ltd. has completed the purchase of Snake River Log Homes LLC. The Chestertown, N.Y.-based maker of Log Home kits paid $1.26 million for Rigby, Idaho-based Snake River. In a statement, ...