Log cabins--please post pictures of yours

[teach1rusl]

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Love how your wood stove is set up...the tiled pedestal area

Cabins look so homey!!!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Has anybody done cordwood? (log-end)
This isn't our house- we're still in construction- but it will be similar. We have a regular A- frame roof instead of the gambrel style too.

I'm going to do a coop out of cordwood too.

 

[BlackBart]

I'm going to do a coop out of cordwood too.

That would be so cool.

I wanted to build a barn out of cordwood.
There are allot of them around here because wood is so plentiful. From a distance it looks like rock.
I was told you have to use a slip frame and the corners you stack like firewood. Also the wood has to be very dry so it doesn't shrink much and you have to take the bark off so the metallic wood borer beetle or Powder Post beetle doesn't infect the wood.
The insulating value on cordwood is higher than logs and logs are rated pretty high.

Next year we are going to re-chink our cabin using Perma-Chink and backer rods.

There are allot of log home mansions around here. Huge logs have been used and floor to ceiling westcoast windows that overlook the mountains and ocean. Beautiful but building a log structure is 4 times the cost of a stick frame house so mostly it is left for the wealthy.

 

[jafo]

Here's ours,,,,,,,1500 sq ft, 90 ft of deck, and an outside hot tub.

 

[Up-the-Creek]

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Tuffoldhen,..that is absolutely beautiful! I wish my cabin was further out in the middle of nowhere! Love that snow too!

 

[Boyd]

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That my friend, is a work of art!

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

This is my home, over looking the yellowstone river valley near Sidney Montana. We still have some work to do on landscaping and such.

Myself and my little dog Yodi, inside!

 

[seminolewind]

I'll have to look at these tomorrow, but I can't believe how many! Anyone want to list the pros and cons?

 

[jafo]

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That my friend, is a work of art!

Thanks Boyd,,,,,,,,,as you can see, my wife has the "bug". She loves to decorate.

I'll have to look at these tomorrow, but I can't believe how many! Anyone want to list the pros and cons?

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There are a lot of really beautiful homes in here!

Ours heats with 1 ( one ) barrel ( 275 gallons ) of oil a year! We have a nice wood stove that heats it with around 2-3 cords if we wanted to burn just wood. It's from Northeastern Log Homes. Thier "camp and castle series" the Cumberland. I paid $14,900.00 for it as a kit. Now they're $26,000 exterior turn key. Put it up in 3 weeks on our own foundation. Hired a local friend carpenter. Changed the floor plan around a bit, (main floor bedrooms are now the kitchen and bath. sleep in the loft, full basement)but we love it. Very easy to build, affordable, with great equity. Every time you enter, you can smell the pine!


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[Goldenbirchens]

http://www.thefallcreekranch.com/house/sale.html

1800s Log home restoration that I live in near Hannibal, Mo.