Making Camp
Log Home Living – July 2019
A new log home helps a Wisconsin family return to their roots and look forward to their future.
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Legacy Begets Legacy
Log Cabin Homes – September 2013
Illinois Log Home
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.”
Rekindling Summer Memories
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.
Home on the Ranch
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.
To Do It All Again
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.
Midwest Paradiso
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.
Invite a Crowd
Log Home Living – August 2006
Romance and lofty notions of craftsmanship have their place, but sometimes the reason behind the building a log home is fairly simple: it’s a place to unwind and have fun with family and friends.
Heartland Classic
Log Home Living – July 2005
“Log homes are cropping up all over the place here,” says Jim, whose family has lived on the 140-acre farm (in a frame farmhouse) since the first settlers arrived in Iowa. “People see them and decided they like them.”