When you love your home and your home’s location, but simply need more space, building a post and beam addition is a great idea. Generally costing much less than building a new
With Halloween coming up Monday, we thought now would be a great time to talk about two architectural features with appropriate names for the holiday. Both features are common in the Northeast,
Dormers are a popular way to add usable space to a home, and they are as popular on log homes as any other style of home. The root of dormer is actually
With all the features in a modern kitchen, it can be tempting to install as large a kitchen as possible. Many professional chefs, however, actually prefer a smaller home kitchen. After all,
The dimensions of the rooms in a home are very important in determining how the rooms function and feel. We usually only consider
Next week is Thanksgiving, a holiday originating in the celebration of the first harvest at the Plymouth Bay Colony in 1621. While we are all familiar with the story of the voyage
A few months ago, we dedicated a post to discussing the origins of timber framing. In that post, we mentioned that Scandinavia is more known for log homes than timber framing due to the
Wood is such a great building material that it is no wonder that its use predates history. Throughout the world, where trees were
Last month, we covered the features that define the Chalet and Farmhouse styles, and last year we discussed what makes a home a Lodge. While these are all popular log home styles,
A year ago, we wrote a post on the features that make up a lodge. Like lodge, chalet is an old word whose meaning has evolved considerably over time. The word comes from
A year ago, we wrote about the changing trends in home design. Overall, new homes reached their largest size in 2007, at 2521
