Constructing a log home starts well before the first logs are set. The location of your build affects access, durability, and comfort for years to come. It's important to assess factors like soil ...

In this episode, we showcase our recent progress in building our foundation. We've successfully cut and debarked 80 logs, and all holes are dug with rebar installed into the rock. The next step is to ...

Summertime and the living is, well, hot—which makes a roaring campfire a bit of a problem. But if you lay the right foundation, you can build a great summer blaze that puts out plenty of light with ...

La CRESCENT -- You see a pile of firewood. Alan Stankevitz sees a house. At least, that's what you get, Stankevitz says, if you combine thousands of chunks of wood, tons of mortar made of cement, sand ...

Q: I've decided I'm going to build an outdoor shed using wood, but I've never built a wall before. Is it just a matter of banging together some studs and covering it with sheathing? What secrets can ...