Stories About Log Homes, Log Cabins & Timber Frame Homes
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Your Responsibilities During the Home Build
What is there to do other than the assembly of my home package? CabinSmiths handles Your project from design through move in, or we can provide dry-in services. These items will need to be accomplished by the homeowner – with most of these items being handled by...
Log Home Kitchen
“Modern farmhouse at its best.” At the grand opening of the new 10” Round log home of Nick and April Patterson, those words were among the many used to describe this dream kitchen. From top to bottom this kitchen is unique, with different colors and textures, but in...
Al Fresco Dining
The concept of open air dining is brought to log and timber home living in a variety of designs. The traditional American picnic has met its match with today’s concepts of dining in the fresh air. Gone are the days of a cooler filled with Tupperware encased foods to...
Tips for Buying Land
Learn more about how to choose land. Honest Abe has guided thousands of customers through the process of log home ownership. If you need help during the process, including purchasing land, Jimmie Smith of CabinSmiths will be glad to help.
Rocking a Porch
By Claudia Johnson The porch is an important element of a home’s design and functionality, but it’s also part of American culture. On social media porches have been honored with their own hashtag – #porchsitting. Dan Stevens, who played Matthew Crawley on "Downton...
Traditional and Contemporary
Combining architectural elements and materials creates a stunning and personal home. Honest Abe Log Homes has attracted some very creative homeowners in the last 40 years. Though traditional log homes are most in demand, it’s clear that mixing textures, materials and...
Home Office
Home Offices…creating a space just for you by Molly Cooper, Design Coordinator for Cooper & Co By now you realize you either have an awesome home office, or it is the most unfriendly, blah space you’ve ever had to set in for eight straight hours, or you're like me...
Luxurious Baths
An interview with Molly Cooper, Cooper & Co. Design, a division of Honest Abe Log HomesWhat did the homeowner give you as far as initial guidance so that you could work toward the design they wanted? For this particular master bath, the homeowners had some "must...
Deciding About Wood Flooring
by Claudia Johnson, Director of Marketing, Honest Abe Log Homes If you take a stroll through our galleries, you’ll notice that most of Honest Abe Log Homes’ customers have chosen real wood flooring for their log cabin or timber frame home. The formal definition of...
Designing a Custom Floor Plan
Gather all those scraps of paper, drawings on napkins, clippings from magazines and ideas floating in your head, and let CabinSmiths and Honest Abe Log Homes create a plan for the new log or timber frame home that you’ve dreamed about. We've guided numerous customers...
Designing a Great Room
Over the last 40 years Honest Abe, for which CabinSmiths is an independent dealer, has designed and manufactured thousands of log and timber frame homes that feature a great room. Great rooms are great by both definitions of the word. Not only are they big, they are...
Rain Garden
A Rain Garden is a landscape depression that can be filled with moisture-loving plants. Hidden beneath the pretty plants is a natural storm water treatment system that allows 30% more water to infiltrate into the ground. This reduces the amount of water from flowing...