The Owner-Built Log House

    It is a funny coincidence that my last post was about a book I suggested for those who might be considering building a log home themselves. Today’s post is about another book that I highly recommend.

    People have been building homes from logs and heavy timbers for thousands of years. In North America log homes [...]

    Log Home Green Acquisition

    Did the log home industry just get bigger or smaller?

    One of the log home industry’s most prominent players, PrecisionCraft Log & Timber Homes, entered into an agreement last week with Canadian based PFB Corporation to be acquired. You can read their press release here: http://www.precisioncraft.com/mediaroom/Pressreleases/PreCraft-PFB.html

    Green building has been a [...]

    Green plastic buildings or log homes?

    In those few remaining areas where we still have control over choosing the quality of our life, log home living is a choice whose time has come. [...]

    Log Homes: The Original Eco-friendly and Sustainable Building Solution

    Log homes are the original green building solution made completely from the earth’s most plentiful resource.  One of the choices we have as it relates to making responsible ‘green’ decisions is the materials we select to build our homes, and a log home offers a sustainable and environmentally-friendly solution to energy conservation and natural resources [...]

    ‘Green’ Log Home Info in the News

    Green is good. We all acknowledge this and nowhere is this more apparent than in the log home industry.  As you might imagine, I see a lot of log home information fly across my monitor and as it relates to green building and voluntary recycling efforts.  Recently, there has been a flurry of news that [...]