Muir's Original Log Home Guide for Builders and Buyers
Book Description
Muir's Original Log Home Guide was the nation's first log home magazine ever in production. It started out in 1978. This issue - the Millennium Issue - is like no other issue ever produced. It's a BOOK in magazine format. NO advertising! 260 pages and FULL color. Many feature articles AND a listing of Log Home Guide's Top 100 log home builders and manufacturers in North America spell out informative reading.
About the Author
THe editor-in-chief and editor of the magazine are Allan and Doris Muir. They founded the magazine in 1977 and were the previous publishers of the magazine. The magazine originated in Canada, was moved to Crosby, Tennessee and has now found its new home in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Editorial Reviews
Log Home Builder
"CONGRATULATIONS, CONGRATULATIONS, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!
I have finally found a log home magazine worth picking up!... I cannot tell you how good it is to see a publication where nearly every page has something for me to learn....It is worth the $25.00 just to pick up a magazine that isn't filled to the brim with frilly curtains and antiques that mask the poor workmanship. Thanks for kicking some serious butt in the business! I look forward to more issues ... I'm telling each of my clients that they need one to have on hand so that guests can be educated in what makes these houses so special."
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The Log Home Book: Design, Past and Present
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.
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Best Log Home Plans
Book Description
The romance of log building has inspired American creativity for centuries. Capturing the romance requires hard work and planning. Featured here are thirty of the most popular floor plans from top handcraft design professionals. Each has been thoughtfully planned to incorporate distinctive quality and timeless design.
They take the dreamer beyond the standard contruction drawing and average floor plan to the place of builder/owner. Each stock plan has been evaluated by qualified handcrafted log builders and has undergone numerous space-utilization studies to maximize every square foot.
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The Log Home Plan Book
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 and fully styled interior. Weaving pictures and plans together are valuable information, advice, and planning tips from the people who design and build log homes. Ranging in size and accommodations, they include: *Cabins, Bungalows & Small Abodes. *Family homes, cottages & moderate residences. *Havens, Retreats & Grand Estates.*
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Log Home Project Planner: Your Complete Workbook for Managing a Log Home Construction Project
About the Author
Jim Cooper's involvement in log homes spans more than 15 years. He has been a log home general contractor, builder and construction consultant, sales and marketing vice president for a major log home company and a writer/photographer on the topic of log homes and log home construction. As a builder, his first log home project won an Award for Excellence from the local chapter of the National Association of Home Builders. The home was featured in the April-May 1990 issue of Log Home Living.
Book Description
A complete system for managing your own log home project with instructions for their use. It includes forms for requesting bids from subcontractors, forms for preparing a detailed cost estimate of your project, a construction calendar and numerous forms and worksheets for estimating, scheduling and managing your project. The forms and worksheets are arranged to be reproducible and organized to follow the construction sequence of a typical log home project. Written by Jim Cooper, author of bestselling book, Log Homes Made Easy.
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Log Homes Made Easy: Contracting and Building Your Own Log Home
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.
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Log Construction Manual: The Ultimate Guide to Building Handcrafted Log Homes
Book Description
This book tells you what you need to know to build your own handcrafted, scribe-fit log home. You'll find detailed instructions and easy-to-understand how-to descriptions as well as hundreds of photos and drawings.
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Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice
Book Description
Whether you're planning a starter home or a lifelong retreat, Small Log Homes is an indispensable idea book for planning, building, and outfitting your cabin in the woods or on the prairie.
Lush photographs show how log-home owners, builders, and contractors around the country have achieved the richness and warmth of cabin living within the bounds of economy and space management. And all without feeling cramped or hamstrung.
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Complete Guide to Building Log Homes: Over 840 illustrations
Book Description
From buying land and drawing floor plans to choosing log styles and joinery, every phase of construction is covered in over 800 photos and drawings with complete how-to instructions. From the experts at Popular Science. "Whether you need to know about slab walls or building that first fire in your new home's fireplace, the Guide covers it."Country Journal.
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The Owner-Built Log House: Living in Harmony With Your Environment
Book Description
Log houses inspire fascination across most of North America. They evoke a simpler time - a tradition of independence and self-sufficiency missing in today's high-tech world. But a log house does not have to be a fantasy. Ownership is within the means of almost anyone reasonably handy with tools.
Allan Mackie believes - and demonstrates - that attitude is at least as important as carpentry skills. Given a will to learn and a desire to make something of one's own, the average person is more than capable of building a log house that will serve an individual, a couple or a family for years to come.
In this profusely illustrated book, the author takes the reader step-by-step through the building process - the selection of land, the purchase and preparation of the logs, the sharpening of tools and the cutting, lifting and fitting of logs, and all the other steps involved. With hundreds of photographs and detailed diagrams and drawings, The Owner-Built Log House is much more than a how-to guide. It is nothing less than a testament to the belief that where there is a will for self-reliance, there is the possibility of achieving it.
As a unique feature of the book, the author takes us through his current building project on a 100-acre wilderness site. The reader experiences the entire process - from buying land right up to moving in and spending that first winter.
Chapters include: - Purpose in Building a Log House
- The Building Tree
- Making a Set of Plans
- How Long Will It Take and How Much Will It Cost
- Good Site, Good Tools, Good Work
- Log Walls
- Notches of All Kinds
- A Roof Over Your Head
- Windows, Doors and Stairs
- Interior and Finishing Touches.
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Building the Alaska Log Home
Ingram
"This thorough book on traditional hand-hewn log construction has a warm, friendly text and 192 pages of full-color photos of work at some amazing home sites" ("Washington Post"). "A unique and valuable guide".--"Country Living Magazine". 210 color photos. 41 drawings.
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The Not So Log Cabin: Log-Element Building & Design
Book Description
Long known for her expertise in log construction, Robbin Obomsawin shakes things up in her newest book The Not So Log Cabin, which looks at how to incorporate simple log elements into any home. A fresh take on a favorite architectural style, The Not So Log Cabin combines log building with conventional construction to create a new hybrid called log-element building. It is an easy way to get the "log look" while using fewer natural resources. Log-element building ensures a unique home, because it can reflect traditional styles like Adirondack, Southwestern, or Western, depending on the desire of the builder or owner. Complete with original blueprints for log-element building, The Not So Log Cabin is a great idea book for building a not-so-ordinary log home.
Robbin Obomsawin is the construction manager and general contractor for Beaver Creek Log Homes. She combines over twenty years of log-joinery experience with her knowledge of conventional construction, and has served as vice president of the American/Canadian Log Builders' Association for Handcrafters. She is the author of Small Log Homes and Best Log Home Plans. She lives in Westdale, New York.
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LOG HOME DECORATION BOOKS
Inside Log Homes: The Art and Spirit of Home Decor
Book Description
Now in paperback!
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.
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Inside Log Homes: The Art & Spirit of Home Planning and Decor
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Log Cabins (Architecture and Design Library)
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The Rustic Cabin: Design & Architecture
Book Description
With a focus on architecture and details, rustic expert and author Ralph Kylloe introduces creative rustic designs that are inspiring a revival of cabin craftsmanship in his newest book, Rustic Cabin Renaissance. The book features log homes that are newly built, but that are steeped in regional history as well as the log-building history of the Scandinavian settlers and mountain men from centuries past. Kylloe provides photographic details of the highest-quality workmanship in stone masonry and log work, highlighting the unique blend of fine antiques and contemporary furnishings that these homes exhibit. Arts & Crafts, Scandinavian, and Western legacies in furniture building and interior styling make each room a smorgasbord for the eyes, and a dream come true for lovers of rustic décor.
Rustic Cabin Renaissance features homes that are rich in vision, beauty and warmth-photographed as only Ralph Kylloe can photograph them.
Ralph Kylloe received his Ed.D. from Boston University and has taught at the university level for many years. He is a leading authority on rustic furniture and owner of the Ralph Kylloe Gallery. He is the author of eleven previous books.
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Cabin Fever
Book Description
A log cabin in the woods is one of America's most cherished icons -- a dream shared around the world. As the stress level of city life rises, more and more of us are imagining our own cottages far away from traffic lights and urban distractions. Cabins in the wilderness have never gone out of style, because the rustic life is a simple, rewarding one rooted in the traditions of the great outdoors.
Featuring rustic interiors as well as North Woods architecture, Cabin Fever visits more than two dozen charming retreats old and new, large and small, in the mountains and along the water, from the wilds of New York out to the wild, wild West. Author Rachel Carley explains where our love for the rustic comes from and shows the amazingly varied guises in which it appears today.
After serving as settlers' cabins, log homes enjoyed a phenomenal popularity in the late nineteenth century. Wealthy families such as the Vanderbilts, Guggenheims, and Carnegies summered in areas as remote as they could find, building what were euphemistically called camps. Those less affluent, following the era's prescription for fresh air and simplicity, traveled to even more rustic hotels and vacation cabins to get their share of the refreshing woods. Cabin Fever presents some of the best of these old lodges and private cabins, along with striking new homes that give a contemporary twist to the ideal of the rustic life.
To help fill a cabin, a whole camp, or even an apartment with the latest in rustic style, the book's catalogue shows where to find home furnishings from twig bedsteads to Hudson Bay blankets to Adirondack chairs. Brimming with exceptionally creative ideas for achieving this truly American look, this enchanting guide to living with the rustic style will cure every variety of cabin fever.
