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.
Log cabins have been around for thousands of years. They are commonly associated with the United States of America and remain popular in today's modern world.
Contrary to public belief, log cabins are one of the most sturdy structures because they are very well planned in advance meaning that very few errors are possible once the construction process commences.
Cedar is one of the best choices of wood for a log cabin. Cedar naturally repels insects which is a great advantage for preventing termite damage.
Building your own log cabin as a second home gives you the option to erect your log cabin wherever you want (subject to planning permission).
Today's log cabins are generally more energy efficient that concrete or brick buildings from 50 years ago.
Anyone who is interested in buying a log cabin kit can construct it themselves or hire a construction company or manufacturer to build it for them.
Scandinavian countries, Germany, as well as Russia, were at the forefront of log cabin construction in the olden days.
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.
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.
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