In this episode, we raise our walls higher by adding the next layer of logs, which require three notches due to the middle ...

In this episode, we build the rest of our first floor by notching and installing 20 more floor joists into the girders. The ...

Learn how to build a log cabin from trees on a budget using local materials, traditional hand tools, and hard work while embracing the land. Read more.

When thinking of a log cabin, one might think of a small, hand-built one deep in the woods somewhere. That’s not usually the case. Log-home construction is a big business these days, with mul… ...

Log cabin construction loans are different from conventional home construction loans, says Michael Crossett, executive vice president at The Federal Savings Bank, based in Chicago.

In the 1960s, while in college, I read “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau. He built a log cabin, lived by himself in the woods and wrote. I always wanted to do the same thing.