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Build Your Own Log Cabin with These Kits

Build Your Own Log Cabin with These Kits

Log Cabins for Less out of Greeneville, Tennessee sells log cabin kits. They have a lot of plans to choose. Kits range from the little Windy Hill with 846 square feet to kits to build really big log homes with over 3000 square feet. The 

Have a Home Office Delivered

Have a Home Office Delivered

This Ranch Cabin with a dormer window just showed up on Facebook Marketplace. It is from Sheds By Design. This company can deliver a complete home office to your own back yard so you can have some space to focus. 12×32 Ranch Cabin | Sheds 

More Park Model Kitchens from Avery Cabin Company

More Park Model Kitchens from Avery Cabin Company

Little BEAR Cabins is a local company that resells modular log cabins and log cabin kits. I first saw them on Facebook Marketplace.  They advertise log cabin kits priced from $11,900 to $23,900. The park model cabins shown are from Avery Cabin Company. Avery Cabin 

Avery Cabin Co Park Model Log Cabin Kitchens

Avery Cabin Co Park Model Log Cabin Kitchens

A Log Cabin Kit for $11,900 showed up in my Facebook Marketplace feed. It is made by the Avery Cabin Co in Hamilton, Alabama. They show four models with floor plans that all have very practical kitchen layouts. They are all different. The Meadow Brook 

Eagle Vista 1376 Square Foot Cabin Kit

Eagle Vista 1376 Square Foot Cabin Kit

The Allwood Eagle Vista Cabin Kit has nearly everything you need to build a makes a larger Nordic Spruce log home. More Information on Amazon > Layout Choose the layout you want. The cabin is 1376 square foot, 697 square foot on the ground floor 

Eagle Point 1108 Square Foot Cabin Kit

Eagle Point 1108 Square Foot Cabin Kit

The Eagle Point Cabin Kit is a made-to-order custom log cabin kit from Allwood. It makes a practical log home with a contemporary design. It has 2-3/4 inch thick walls with dual tongue and groove wind block. The walls, roof and floor are of Nordic 

Poly Tunnel, Cold Frame or Greenhouse Panelized Kit

Poly Tunnel, Cold Frame or Greenhouse Panelized Kit

The November 2020 issue of House Beautiful just came, the Living Better Issue. I skipped to one of the cover articles, Sunlit Greenhouse. If a bit of greenery is clinically proven to reduce stress, then everyone could stand to find room for a dedicated grow 

Pole and Panel 3 Bedroom Farmhouse Plans

Pole and Panel 3 Bedroom Farmhouse Plans

The house plans for this Pole and Panel 3 Bedroom Farmhouse includes board-and-batten siding, a vaulted ceiling and an open floor plan option. It is designed to be easily and quickly built out of inexpensive materials, even rough-sawn wood from your own trees using pole 

Connecting Z-Wave Home Automation Thermostat to our Jotul Sebago Free Standing Gas Fireplace

Connecting Z-Wave Home Automation Thermostat to our Jotul Sebago Free Standing Gas Fireplace

Cliff added the gas fireplace to the app on my phone. When we lived at the log cabin, Cliff put cameras, locks and our thermostat on Nexia’s home automation system. The Nexia app runs the Trane heat pump at the cabin, but the fireplaces there 

Adding a Heat Shield to the Antique Mantel

Adding a Heat Shield to the Antique Mantel

We added a mantel shield to our antique mantel so that we won’t burn the house down. It had been suggested that if you have a blower, it won’t get hot enough to catch fire. That is so not true. We tried the fire for