In the snowy woods of a valley west of this college town, John and Mary Beth Cook have taken up a version of mountain living amended for the modern world. Last year, they completed and moved into a ...

A two-storey log house sits majestically among the trees as if in its own natural habitat. Adjacent to it is another residential home made from logs — houses that stand apart from the many ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Tony DiOrio wanted a rustic home, but his heart sank when his real-estate agent drove him up to a West Milford, N.J., log house in 1999. “It was not really what I was thinking of,” ...

This is the beginning of a series discussing tools used in the process of log building. Of course, a lot of these tools can be used for many other applications, but log building will be the main focus ...

When the concept of log homes was introduced in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe over 200 years ago, it was initially viewed as a stale idea of building dwellings with rustic back woods. Over the years, ...

We confess. We are guilty. Think of the gorgeous log and timber frame homes that are featured in newspapers, magazines and all those home and garden TV shows. The log homes are usually huge, accented ...

LOVING Log Homes: Where some people might see the discarded wood planks strewn about construction sites as refuse, Bill Smith sees log houses. *Special offer only available to new subscribers or ...

From the road far out you could think this is a recreation lodge — 10,000 square feet, an eight-point elk, open land in every direction, a swimming pool and a pond that covers 1½ acres. It could be, ...