The front porch was strewn with debris and remnants of the chinking, mesh and insulation that once held the hand-hewn white oak logs into the shape of a rustic two-story home in Mokena. The thick, ...

In this episode, we notch a couple more logs and begin constructing our front stairs using 2x10 dimension lumber for the stringers. A unique technique is employed for the steps by splitting short logs ...

Welcome to our Log Cabin Project, where we build a tiny log cabin from scratch using materials sourced from our land. In this episode, we notch logs for the first floor using hand tools such as saws, ...

A condemned Langley house slated for the wrecking ball turned into a history mystery when a log cabin revealed itself under layers of peeling wallpaper. “I’ve been doing this 37 years but never ...

Andy Mills got into the business of preserving hand-hewn log buildings when he lived in Texas, where he saw his first log cabin. “It was half burned and falling down,” he said. But the cabin captured ...