Log & Timber Stories

Log Home Living – July 2019

A new log home helps a Wisconsin family return to their roots and look forward to their future.

Log Cabin Homes – May 2017

A self employed Massachusetts couple carves out time, and a place to kick back, in idyllic Bridgton, Maine.

Log Cabin Homes – September 2013

A new family home with a country sensibility is welcomed to farmland held for generations. “Our client chose full logs for their family house,” says Dennis Davis, project manager for RJ Dailey Construction, “believing the aesthetics would make the proper statement about family and farm vaues: strong, stable and, most of all, enduring.”

Log Home Living Annual Buyers Guide – 2011

For Wisconsin natives Julie and Ted Spillius, summers are meant to be spent at the lake. Both of their parents had North Woods properties when they were children, so they dreamed of having a cabin where daughters Katie, Jackie and Stephanie could enjoy that same special summer experience.

Nations Building News – Front Page May 2, 2011

Modern amenities blend with the appeal of historic and rustic architecture in The Hillview, an award-winning, custom- designed 3,167-square-foot log home in Jefferson City, Mo., that the owners plan to enjoy as they grow older.

Log Home Living – January 2011

Ever since he was five years old, Larry has lived on his family’s 80-acre ranch in east-central Oklahoma. When he and Dana planned for their retirement, they saw no reason to move anywhere else. They’d lived in the same home on the ranch for some 25 years, but now they just wanted more space – and a log home.

Country’s Best Annual Buyers Guide – 2009

The log home way of life is in the Sangmeisters’ blood. Charles grew up in Philadelphia with fond memories of vacationing in a log home and never forgot the warm feeling it created. Lana grew up in Montana and says log homes, along with the great outdoors, are part of her heritage – her grandparents started their family in a log home they built.

Log Home Living – 2009

For this Michigan couple, achieving the perfect log home was hardly beginner’s luck – the second time was, indeed, the charm.

Log Home Living – May 2008

Midwestern and Tuscan styles are about as far apart aesthetically as, well, Iowa and Italy. But Greg and Melanie Hicklin had a vision – or rather, dueling visions. “My exposure to log cabins come from fishing in Canada, so I had something rustic in mind,” says Greg. But Melanie had other plans for the couple’s getaway home, a short drive from their lives in Des Moines. She has thinking of Tuscany, and figured an Italian country look could indeed work in a log home.

Log Home Design Ideas – October 2007

What do you get when you take one stock plan, four shrewd owners and lots of ingenuity? Four very different log home designs that are as original as the people who live in them.