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				Log Construction Manual: The Ultimate Guide to Building Handcrafted Log Homes (Paperback) Highly recommended by Log Home Living Magazine
				The Log Home Plan Book - Favorite Plans, Decor and Advice (Paperback) Book Description 9 3/4 X 9 3/4 In, 128 Pp, 125 color photos, 30 floor plans. Thirty fabulous log home plans-the favorites of builders and designers, selected form across the United States. More than just renderings, each floor plan is illustrated with beautiful color photographs of the landscaped exterior.
				Log Homes Made Easy: Contracting and Building Your Own Log Home(Paperback) Book Description 6 x 9 25 b/w photos 40 drawings Complete, inexpensive guide to building log homes Kits, financing, and construction How to be your own general contractor "For enthusiasts and would-be inhabitants of log homes, Cooper provides concise and sensible information . . . Recommended." -Library Journal The revised and updated edition of this best-selling guide (first edition, 0-8117-2422-0) outlines what every owner-contractor needs to know before beginning a dream log home-getting started; comparing price quotes; researching on the Internet; choosing an architect; planning the site, road, well, and septic systems; finding and managing subcontractors; and scheduling and controlling costs. The author also explores the myths and realities of log home life, including maintenance and energy efficiency. Jim Cooper owns Oak Ridge Log Homes in Frederick, Maryland.
				The Log Home Book: Design, Past and Present (Paperback) by Cindy Teipner Thiede, Arthur Thiede, Cindy Teipner-Thiede, Jonathan Stoke (Photographer) Book Description 9 3/4 X 9 3/4In, 224Pp, 200 Full-Color Photographs, 50 Black and White Photos: The Log Home Book: New times and new techniques are continuing to grab hold of the log home industry. The updates are incredible. The list of resources grows. As architects and builders continue to revolutionize their designs, the style continues to gain momentum. Enter The Log Home Book. This vital resource showcases hundreds of innovations from the blending of building materials to options for finishing, detailing and decorating today's log homes. With bright, detailed pictures, this book is an inspiration to architects, builders, interior designers and buyers.
				Logs, Wind and Sun: Handcraft Your Own Log Home ... Then Power It with Nature (Paperback) by Rex A. Ewing, Lavonne Ewing "Nobody packs up, heads for woods and builds a log home, far away from the nearest power line, on a whim..." Many people dream of getting back to nature and living self-sufficiently in a house built with their own hands. The Ewings show readers how to do just that in this account of how they built a log house and then powered it using sun and wind. For most people, this would be a monumental undertaking, and so it was for the Ewings. In one case, their logs were delivered a mile from their homesite, and they had to move them the rest of the way themselves. Using a combination of brains and hard work, they solved this problem and many others.
				Hands-on Log Homes - Cabins Built on Dreams (Hardcover) by Cindy Thiede (Photographer), Arthur Thiede, Jeff Walling This third book by popular log-home authors Cindy Thiede and Arthur Thiede brings the scale of log homes back to practical reality. Included are chapters on owner-built homes, recycled log homes, and historical restorations. A chapter on details gives some stunning examples of personal touches that make a home stand out. In addition, log builder Arthur Thiede leads us through the steps of constructing a small log building. Filled with exceptional color photographs of log homes that reflect the personalities and lifestyles of their owners, HANDS-ON LOG HOMES tells of real people with extraordinary stories of determination and purpose.
				Inside Log Homes: The Art and Spirit of Home Decor (Paperback) by Cindy Teipner Thiede, Jonathan Stoke (Photographer) From the biggest notions of carefully styled rooms to the smallest comforts and delights of accessorizing a home with your favorite things, Inside Log Homes offers suggestions, understanding, and inspiration regarding the intensely personal and expressive world of log-cabin living. Author Cindy Thiede peeks through doors into hundreds of uniquely styled and personally appointed spaces. Sometimes comfortably familiar, other times surprising and unexpected, each room may plant the seed of possibility for your own emerging vision of home and hearth. Cindy Thiede has spent twenty years photographing and writing about log-home architecture in the United States. Additional titles by Ms. Thiede include Hands-On Log Homes: Cabins Built on Dreams, The Log Home Book: Design, Past and Present, American Log Homes.
				Log Cabin Classics (Hardcover) by Robbin Obomsawin Review Log Homes Illustrated : ..a useful guidebook for building homes in which simplicity is revered over opulence. The author combines traditional handcrafted artistry and natural inspiration with modern, space-saving designs for traditional-style cabins that are updated with a touch of whimsy for today's lifestyle. Book Description Designed to bring the true spirit of cabin style back to its roots, Robbin Obomsawin's latest book Log Cabin Classics is inspired by nostalgic, old-world cabins and filled with tips for meeting today's current needs. Since place-not space-is what true harmony with nature and cabin living is about, Log Cabin Classics includes practical construction advice, straightforward and creative design, advice on using local materials and choosing a site, architectural details, and handcrafted artistry. These principles are applied to a collection of one-of-a-kind plans you can use as springboards for creating your own "log cabin classic."
				Log Home Project Planner: Your Complete Workbook for Managing a Log Home Construction Project (Paperback) by Jim Cooper Book Description The only complete workbook with instructions, forms and worksheets for managing any log home project from start to finish. Includes forms for requesting bids, preparing a detailed cost estimate, and scheduling construction activities. Ideal for owner-builders and those with limited construction management experience. Written by Jim Cooper, former general contractor and author of best-selling log home construction book, Log Homes Made Easy. From the Inside Flap The Log Home Project Planner is a comprehensive workbook to help you plan and direct building your log home. It contains the following: Cost Detail Sheets for all stages of building, Log Home Cost Summary Sheets,Request for Quotation Forms for subcontractors, Worksheets for estimating/bidding materials, Bid/log for tracking bid/estimate status, Useful Tables and Formulas, Daily Site Report, Complete Construction Calendar
				Cabin Fever (Hardcover) by Rachel Carley "William Distin, a well-known architect in New York's Adirondack Mountains in the early 1900s. Amazon.com The craze for "getting away from it all" in buildings of log, stone, and unpainted lumber has been a part of American life since the 1800s. From the Gilded Age retreats of the Catskills and Adirondacks to the rugged Wild West lodges of Yellowstone and Yosemite, Cabin Fever celebrates the architectural elements that make cabin style unique: gleaming hand-peeled and polished logs, cowhide sofas, and river-rock fireplaces. Some are large, old, and built as public lodgings, like Putnam Camp, the Adirondack summer retreat founded by philosopher William James, which still has the cheerful austerity it had when Freud and Jung mingled there with Harvard academicians. Others, like the grand hunting lodge nestled on the edge of a marsh, are more recent monuments to quirky private visions of the perfect rustic retreat. Rooms in both are accessorized with animal heads, native American blankets and art, snowshoes, antler chandeliers, and willow twig furniture. The book's appendix includes catalog sources for everything from small wooden summerhouses to buffalo-plaid blankets, and a list of hotels in the grand old style (like Yosemite's Ahwahnee and the Grand Canyon's El Tovar). Even if you can't have a piece of the wilderness to call your own (and the burl furniture to match), you can still enjoy the rustic yet substantial comforts of Cabin Fever.