Peterson Cabin Fever

Peterson Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever Cured by Mountain Log Home   By Claudia Johnson, ©Log Home Living Magazine There are two kinds of cabin fever, and Gayle and Evan Peterson had the good kind – the kind that whispers a memory and teases of the future. A fever that starts low-grade,...
Gender Preferences in Log Home Design

Gender Preferences in Log Home Design

Experience proves that gender plays a role in design decisions. Bedrooms and Kitchens After 27 years of creating log custom log homes, we’ve noticed that gender plays a role in the design of log homes. It seems that women are usually much more concerned about...
Private Lake: Carlisle Cabin

Private Lake: Carlisle Cabin

Patience Makes Perfect Years in the making, a Kansas couple’s lakefront log home proves worth the wait. Patience Makes Perfect by Suzanna Logan, Country’s Best Log Homes, September 2009  When most folks build a log home, they begin with the house, then add...
A Place for Happiness

A Place for Happiness

Happy Haven A Tennessee couple pitches in to build their dream. Very few people head for the movies and wind up buying 16 acres of land instead of popcorn. That’s what happened to Dennis and Sharon Gros, however. The couple wasn’t even searching for property when they...
All in the Family

All in the Family

All in the Family Definitely not the house next door. By Margaret A. Haapola, Country’s Best Log Homes, 2006 Floorplan and Design Guide Although Lori Ashlock grew up in the log home business, it was her husband Mark who suggested they build their own. Mark remembers...
Planning Makes Perfect

Planning Makes Perfect

Planning Makes Perfect Making a choice to live their own dream. A passion for country living. That’s what drove John and Anita Pleacher for years as they chased their goal of settling and managing their own small country homestead. John spent much of his life around...