Do you want a second home but you think you can’t afford it? Think again, because a log cabin could be the answer.

If you like rural life, then a small log cabin would be ideal for you as a second home.

With a massive choice of layouts, materials, finishes, windows and more, you can have the perfect log cabin for you and your family.

Log cabins can be diverse in their design and quality of build and workmanship. When you build a log cabin, be sure to satisfy yourself that it is appropriate for your needs.

The heyday of the log cabin in North America was in the third and fourth quarters of the 19th Century, which corresponds to the widespread trek Westward after the Civil War.

The modern version of a log cabin is the log home which is a house built most often from premilled logs.

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.

Scandinavian countries, Germany, as well as Russia, were at the forefront of log cabin construction in the olden days.

There are plenty of do-it-yourself log cabins on the market and you will find that most of them are very reasonable in price.

Log cabins have always been popular, however, their popularity was challenged due to urbanization sweeping across the United States of America, and a quicker method of erecting a building was needed.