While searching for a new home a few years ago, my wife and I toured a log cabin for rent in the mountains of western North Carolina. It was built with historic reclaimed wood, and the long, stacked ...

In the mid-1970s, when Susan and Larry Bamesberger decided to build a rustic getaway for their family, they didn’t go far from home. The family of five lived in Valparaiso, Ind., where Larry had a ...

There’s just something about log cabins that makes people want to pack all their earthly possessions and set up camp in one of these charming homes, usually close to nature—and away from the chaos of ...

In the fall of 2022, while I was conversing with Rose Ann Wendt Trylch of Hope, we discussed a plan of dismantling the 1876 log home built by her great-great-grandfather, Gustave Wendt. This ...