The Red Lake

Northern Minnesota, USA – Erickson Log and Timberframe Homes Built area: 6,400 sq. ft. Click on any image to start lightbox display.Use your Esc key to close the lightbox. You can also view the images as a slideshow if you prefer 8-)   If you liked this, you will also like viewing …

The Lakewood

Northern Minnesota, USA – Jay Tucker, Old Hampshire Designs, Inc. Photography: Rich Frutchey Click on any image to start lightbox display.Use your Esc key to close the lightbox. You can also view the images as a slideshow if you prefer 8-)   If you liked this, you will also like viewing …

The Log That Isn’t

Everlogs – anywhere you want them, Ma’am  –  Everlogs.com Vegetarians don’t eat meat. Any meat. Yet they find products like ‘Not Bacon’, ‘Not Sausage’ and ‘Nut Meat’ sitting forlornly on supermarket shelves as though trying to convince vegetarians they haven’t really eaten unless something resembling meat is on their plate!  Does a log home aficionado […]

The Rossano Log Home

Belchertown, MA  USA  –  Grist Mill Country Homes Photography by: Rich Frutchey The owners of this home had a dream. That dream was encapsulated in a photograph they had clipped from a newspaper.  It was a photo of a log home that had most of the features the Rossano’s wanted in their new home, to […]

Suncadia – Custom built without the one-off price tag…

Washington State  USA  –  MTN Architects and PrecisionCraft Log and Timber Homes Built area:     2,675 sq. ft  (248 m2) Neither log cabin nor post and beam, this home is something of a hybrid construction. But it is definitely deserving of being here in this section of our site. Looking at this home it […]

Headwaters Camp

Headwaters Camp - Big Sky Montana

Big Sky South Central Montana  –  Dan Joseph Architect Site area:     22 acres  (8.9 hectares) Built Area:    1,800 sq. ft.  (167 m2) Year built:     2012 Builder:     Highline Partners Photography:     Audrey Hall Set on the edge in a series of man-made ponds, streams and falls designed by the lead […]

The Three Bears Guest Cabin

Idaho  USA  –  Daryl Sieker Architecture Built area:  998 sq. ft.  (92.4 m2) Building system:    Post and beam This petite guest cabin sits 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) above the snow line and overlooks nearby Cougar Gulch and snow-capped Mount Spokane. It’s name derives from the three bears foraging on the site the day the […]

Life on a Grand Scale

Log Home by Pioneer Log Homes

Colorado USA  –  Pioneer Log Homes Area: 925 m2  (10,000 sq. ft.) You don’t have to be a fan of log homes to appreciate the amazing workmanship incorporated in this home. The home is massive at 10,000 sq ft but it has to be, given the scale of timbers used!  Apparently, the owners’ prior home was […]

Modular homes ain’t what they used to be!

The very modular Fab Cab interior

No, indeed! Modular homes are much, much better and have a very bright future. The ‘trailer park’ image of the past simply doesn’t fit with the smart, modern new modular homes being produced in Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand today. Being ‘factory built’ doesn’t mean that today’s modular homes all come out […]

The Ford House – Ma Modular

The Ford House Ma Modular

Austin Texas USA  –  Ma Modular Built area:  143 m2 + deck of 46 m2  (1,540 sq ft + deck of 500 sq ft) Two modules/Three bedrooms/Two bathrooms MA is part of the Austin TX based design and build group, KRDB.  As a specialist division MA is focussed on bringing quality accommodation down to the lowest possible costs with […]