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Avalon Log Homes - Log Homes Custom Design PlanningLog Homes Custom Design Planning When it comes to designing your custom log home, it's easy to be blinded by the shear excitement and emotion of seeing your plans begin to take shape. However, you should always keep a healthy does of reality clos...

  Log Cabins - Dead Standing Timber for Stability in Log Cabins   Dead Standing Timber for Stability in Log Cabins High in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, vast tracts of timber have been killed by periodic beetle epidemics. The beetles kill green trees, but do not harm the wood, leaving a tree dead...

Learning About Log Cabins Log Cabins in America date back to the early 1600's when European settlers fashioned simple structures from the abundant virgin forest lands of the New World. Utilitarian in their design, these early Log Cabins were long on function and practicality but short on modern d...