Log cabins are much cheaper to build and maintain than bricks and mortar buildings, and add a wonderful touch with their wood materials and traditional construction techniques.
Garden buildings remain popular in modern gardens but their use tends to be more functional than aesthetic.
It is believed that log cabins began to be constructed initially in the northern part of Europe, around 3500 BC.
A Summerhouse is a small roofed building of varying forms in gardens or parks designed to provide cool shady places of relaxation or retreats from summer heat.
A summerhouse is much more attractive than a standard shed and can just as easily be used for storage.
Summerhouses can often be known as screen houses, log cabins, gazeboes, kiosks, pavilions and pergolas.
Unlike garden sheds, summerhouses and gazebos are almost always made from wood.
You will find that different log cabins will be built with logs that vary in thickness, which provides a different appeal.
Most log cabins before were built with logs horizontally laid and connected at the ends with notches. Some use nails instead of notches, but the latter is still better.
There are two types of log homes, the handcrafted log homes and the milled log homes.
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