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The Log Home Directory is now the largest online index of log home companies.  Find everything you are looking for here!  If you are just beginning to explore the log home lifestyle or considering timber frame options to determine if one is right for you, the first thing you need to do is bookmark this site.  Or, if you are digging around for companies to design, build or maintain your log home - you just discovered the 'mother lode'.  Our intuitive menus will help you find exactly what you are looking for. 

  Log home builders, dealers, manufacturers
  Log home floor plans and architects
  Log home kits
  Timber frame Information
  Building resources (doors, windows, etc.)
  Green Building
  Find Local Contractors - Free, Quick & Easy

Most log home companies will ship a home package (i.e. log home kit) almost anywhere in the world. When considering such a purchase, many of us prefer to visit model homes to touch, smell and feel - and ask questions. To make it easier to locate those model homes and companies, we organized our listings by State (and Canadian Provinces).

Log Building Methodologies

Why Log & Timber Frame?

Logs and heavy timbers used in home construction are special - and create an atmosphere unlike any other building styles. The best way I know how to introduce one to the splendor of logs is to point you to an article I wrote about this very subject entitled, "The Norman Rockwell Effect".  If you are a first time visitor to our directory or are new to log homes and timber frame construction, you're in for a real treat. 

Logs for home construction can be round, D-shaped or squared.  They may be machined to interlock with each other, stacked one atop of the other and cut (coped, or Swedish cope) to fit its corresponding mate, or they can be irregular and "chinked" for a snug and weather tight fit.  Log siding is also a popular way of making a stick-built house look like a real log cabin.  Another facet of log-style construction is a very old practice called timber framing...

Timber Framing

Timber frame (or timberframe) is one of the oldest traditions of constructing wooden structures.  Just like fine furniture uses dovetails, mortise and tenons and old-world joinery, timber framing is a sophisticated method of "post and beam" joinery. This art form dates back to early Grecian times and remained the principal method of building construction until the advent of "stick framing" in the mid-eighteenth century.

Modern craftsman continue to use this form of timber frame construction, employing a complicated system of joinery methods as an alternative to metal fasteners creating timber framed homes, barns, shops and churches.  Timber framing has experienced a revival in today's home building as people rediscover this beautiful form of construction. Read more...

Do you have a plan?

Building a log home can be a fun and rewarding experience, but as with any big project, the better your plan - the less likely any pain.  The big picture requires that you choose a manufacturer, a qualified builder, obtain your land and find the ideal floor plan. 

There are literally thousands of floor plans from which to choose, and after a while they start to look the same.  What began as an exciting dream can sometimes turn into a nightmare - because there are just so many floor plans to choose from. 

Announcing the "Floor Plan Showcase"

To help you narrow your focus, the Log Home Directory has launched our exclusive "Log Home Floor Plan Showcase" where you can view 10 of the most popular floor plans from the leading manufacturers. 

Because these are their most popular floor plans you will be able to see what's hot and what features appeal to most people.  In other words, let everyone else do the searching, and you pick the best of the best to fit your individual lifestyle.  Browse floor plans...

Message from the editor

If you own a log home, plan to buy or build a log home, cabin or timber frame building - or if you are comparing floor plans, need maintenance and restoration information - our directory is the Internet's leading source of reliable and up-to-date log home information for the USA and Canada.

We're more than just research & listings

We pride ourselves in going far beyond what you will find with other such reference sources. In addition to including reliable listings for architects and designers, custom doors, windows, flooring, log stairs, log siding, railings, maintenance and more, we offer thorough in-depth product/service descriptions and full contact information for all companies. You will also discover related information pertaining to the log home lifestyle. Don't miss our special sections like 'green building' and our nationwide schedule of log home shows and events.

Why we created this directory

The vast majority of log home builders and dealers are small companies who spend their time doing what they do best, not designing high-impact websites.  Unfortunately, Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) is fast becoming a science; thus making most small firms struggle to attract traffic to their websites. Consequently, those sites don't always rank well in search engines.

This directory was begun as a result of the popularity of our first "rustic" directory, the Log and Rustic Furniture Directory.  Over time we discovered two important correlations... One, people looking for rustic and log furniture oftentimes were furnishing (or planning to decorate) log homes and cabins. Secondly, those log home companies shared the same challenge of balancing new technology demands against their core business necessities.

We're "people" - not robots

This Log Home Directory™ is a human-edited listing, which is much more expedient and user friendly than any search engine.  We accumulate our data by spending incalculable hours examining search engine results, city business listings, information banks, monitoring press releases, news alerts, Yellow Pages - and of course, getting submissions from companies wanting to be included.  As a result...

The Log Home Directory has become one of the leading log home and timber frame information source available online - or off!

This directory offers a place to showcase industry related companies while providing you a one-stop repository of related sites. We have pulled together an all-inclusive list of manufacturers, builders, dealers, architects, designers, log home show schedules, (even books & magazines) and other companies involved in the business of log homes and cabins. We think you'll be pleased with our index of companies.  Also, be sure to see our list of "major manufacturers" of log homes and cabins.  If you know of a website we've missed, please let us know or if you own a company not listed here, add your site now.

Furnish Your Log Home!

So what do you do with your new log home after it has been completed? Well, furnish it of course, with quality log and rustic furniture from the world's best known artisans and manufacturers.  Our other Rustic Sites and Directories offer the most complete indices of crafters and manufacturers of rustic decor products and furnishings online. 

  Log Furniture & Rustic Decor Directory
  Antler Art & Furniture Directory
  Antler Chandeliers
  Chainsaw Art Directory
  Log Pet Furniture
  Log Home Store
  LogHomeology
  Log Videos
  Metalwork Art & Decor Directory
  Rustic Christmas
  Twig Furniture Directory
  Wood Carving Directory

Don't miss these log home tips!

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International Listings

Note: We continue to receive requests from outside North America to add resources beyond our shores.  In trying to be a good citizen of the Internet, we have decided to begin adding international log home companies as they request us to do so.  Unlike our local effort, we do not seek out international listings at this time - see international listings.

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