Log and Timber Home Living

The nation’s premier log home magazine, Log Home Living encourages the dream of log home ownership. Each issue celebrates the log home lifestyle, provides practical advice, and offers photo tours of the nation’s most beautiful log homes

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Design Your Path
When poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson famously quipped, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey,” he clearly wasn’t factoring log and timber homes into account. In our realm, the journey and destination are so closely intertwined, they’re
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Log & Timber Home Living
Editor-in-Chief DONNA PEAK Creative Director EDIE MANN Art Director, Photo & Design MARK SORENSON Managing Editor KATHERINE OWEN Senior Editor SUZANNA LOGAN Contributors CHARLES BEVIER ADAM HEADLEY ELIZABETH MILLARD GRIFFIN SUBER Advertising Sales
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Gatlinburg Getaway
Step out onto one of the many sprawling porches of the Roaring Fork Lodge, and it becomes immediately clear as to where the rental retreat got its name. Perched high above one of the Great Smoky Mountains’ fastest and largest streams known as the Roa
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Layered Landscaping
To successfully create a continuous, vibrant look with your landscaping, a host of factors come into play, from using native perennials and annuals that thrive to choosing accent pieces like benches and birdbaths that boost aesthetic appeal. One aspe
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In The Mood
FUNCTION: Reading, playing games and watching TV. SCHEME: Well-lit, even light that fills the whole room, especially activity areas. TOOLS: General light on full blast supplemented by task lighting in activity areas and accent lights to soften the at
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Rustic Recipe
With lush forest views just outside this home’s wide windows, you don’t need much to remind you of its country setting — but a few accessories never hurt. The kitchen is the perfect place to hint at the wilderness that lies beyond the porch doors. Fr
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Full Tilt
When you live right smack on a ski run in Montana’s famed Whitefish Mountain Resort, you want to take in everything. In this great room, that translates to an unexpected way to marry indoor/outdoor living. ■
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Design Of The Times
Some design and decor trends come and go in a flash. Others linger a little longer. And then there are those motifs that seem to be repeated again and again, year after year. The latter go beyond “trend” and become part of the language of log and tim
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Counter Intuitive
Once, the kitchen was the unsung workhorse of a residence, hidden away behind closed doors. But with today’s open-concept floor plans, they’re the most popular gathering spots in the house. And because your kitchen is likely to be constantly on displ
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Light It Up
Wood soaks up light like a sponge, so to account for the increased light absorption in a log house full of nature’s finest, you’ll need at least twice the lumens that would be required in a timber frame or conventional home with abundant reflective d
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Gone, But Not Forgotten
Tyler and Jennifer Edwards put meticulous thought and care into building their dream log and timber home in Oroville, California. The 5,600-square-foot, five-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom hybrid is one of very few log-style residences in their a
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All-Around Stunner
James DelPrete knows the streets around Halifax, Massachusetts, like the back of his hand. That’s why it came as a surprise when he found himself on a certain stretch of road one summer day in 2019. “I must have taken a wrong turn, I typically wouldn
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JAMES & JANICE’S Special Spaces
The adjacent kitchen and dining room make the main floor ideal for entertaining large groups of friends and family, while a walk-out lower level complete with a pool table, poker table and quick access to an outdoor fire pit adds to the fun. A pair o
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The Finish Line
They say it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. And that’s what this “Dirt to Done” series has been — an odyssey from blueprints to building, from twinkle in the eye to kicking back with a glass of wine on the deck. We chatted with t
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The Maine Event
Jim and Michele Ducharme had a long-standing dream: They wanted a log home. For years, they looked far and wide for the perfect piece of ground to make that goal a reality, only to find that their ultimate destination was a familiar one — quite liter
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Mid-size Magic
Here at Log & Timber Home Living, we have the pleasure of talking with readers, designers and builders every day, so we have an all-access pass to the latest and greatest trends. The two big topics on everyone’s mind are size and style: How much will
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The Hickory Lakes
The first, and most obvious, rule of work/life balance is to leave work at work, an edict that’s easier said than done. For some, physical separation is just the fix, but instead of heading to the garage and hopping in the car on weekdays, what if th
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Strike A Balance
For many, the pivot to working from home has provided plenty of perks – no commute, geographic flexibility and no stinky fish in the communal microwave. But for some, the blurred lines tipped the work/life scale out of kilter, knowing those pesky to-
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The Bear Rock
The modern home office comes with enough distractions as it is — emails, texts and notifications vying for your attention during family time. One way to reduce real-life interruptions is by not only incorporating a designated home office into your pl
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The Frontier D
Maybe you don’t want to commit to a full home office, but you still want more than the increasingly popular “cloffice” (closet + office). Enter the loft office. Luckily, lofts are a common design feature in log and timber homes and are endlessly flex
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The Sunapee
For fans of log and timber homes, the mood-boosting properties of nature come as no surprise. But for skeptics, science backs it up. According to the American Psychological Association, “Spending time in nature is linked to both cognitive benefits an
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Prized Plans 2022
Each year, LTHC members vie to have their latest and greatest floor plans and home designs recognized by a panel of independent, expert judges, and this year, seven stellar log and timber home plans walked away from the prestigious “Jerry Rouleau Awa

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