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However, if you have any doubts or live in a conservation area or a listed building, you should contact your local planning office.

In case of log homes with two storeys, the collar tiles, roof structures and the upper potions of cabins should be inspected.

In the European countries, modern type log cabins are usually built near gardens and are used for home office and summer houses.

Using traditional methods to build a log cabin can take a lot longer than using a log cabin kit. However, the level of satisfaction gained will be a major compensation.

To maximize the life and maintenance of your summerhouse it’s recommended that you don’t have trees or shrubs overhanging it.

Garden buildings remain popular in modern gardens but their use tends to be more functional than aesthetic.

A very important issue to think about when purchasing a log cabin is the type of wood used in its construction.

Although log cabins and log houses are constructed from the similar materials they do have some differences; log cabins are usually built with round rather than hewn or hand-worked wood where as log houses tend be a one story building, with an almost "less finished" appearance (unlike the log cabins) as these were initially constructed with the intention of being short-term.

The materials used to build log cabins come from sustainable forests, where indigenous woods are grown, giving the greatest consideration for the environment. Not only warmer, but more environmentally friendly as well.

Log cabins are small hand-worked rustic houses. It is often called as the first generation home building that is somewhat impermanent, well-built and efficient.