A summerhouse can really provide a touch of elegance and grace to your garden.
Europeans tend to build a log cabin for use in the garden and used as a summer house. However, log cabins are being built and used as home extensions more and more as a cheap alternative.
Staying in a log cabin can be a relaxing experience especially as the majority of today's log cabins can be fitted with modern amenities.
Small log cabins have really come a long way since the frontier days of early America.
Log cabins are homes specifically made up of logs or timber.
Log structures in the US were first constructed by Swedes in what is now south-east Pennsylvania.
Today the construction of log cabins has been made extremely simple by the availability of ready-to-erect log cabin kits.
Logs used for building a cabin can not be picked on a random basis. They need to be selected carefully as logs with only a few knots are preferred, as such logs can be smoothed easily with a bit of whittling.
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, a number of log cabins began to be constructed as a part of the United States Park Service, most of which were built as per the Adirondack style.
Log cabin producers, particularly those that belong in the Log Homes Council, have agreed to produce a manual for construction, to follow a strict and uniform code of ethics and a unified and certified program for log grading.