Great Magazines for Building Timberframe and Log Homes

When people decide to relocate to Western North Carolina, they also make
the decision to purchase a pre-existing home or build a custom home. If
you are looking to purchase land and build your dream home here are some great
magazines that will inspire you with endless possibilities and ideas!

Custom Wood Homes Magazine is targeted to the affluent log home and timber frame home buyer. Each issue is packed with design and decor ideas, interior and exterior photographs, room-by-room photographs of completed homes, practical construction information, multiple floor plans, an extensive builder and dealer directory, and a product services directory.

Log Homes Illustrated spotlights the best contemporary log homes, using extensive photography to focus on design and decor as a source of ideas and inspiration. The magazine depicts the log-home lifestyle and offers practical advice to readers who aspire to live the dream themselves. Plus — each issue is loaded with FREE floor plans.

From Longleaf Lake Glenville Development

Timber Homes Illustrated, the #1 selling timber home magazine in North America, is a complete architectural guide to classic wood homes. Whether you are considering buying your first timber frame home or looking for decorating or remodeling ideas for your present home, Timber Homes Illustrated will help your dream become a reality.

Country's Best Log Homes magazine can help you fulfill your dream of living in a log home by providing you with all the information you need to properly design, buy, build, maintain and decorate your dream log home. Each issue is filled with informative feature articles, helpful columns, beautiful color photography and tons of floorplans!

For more information on these magazines you can visit The Log Homes Network

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Log Home Building,What to know before you decide-North Carolina

Why now is the time to build your own Log Cabin in the Mountains of North Carolina.....

With real estate values dropping, lenders tightening and home construction slowing down, why would anyone in their right mind think this is a good time to take on building a log home? Well, before you sign me up for the straitjacket, you might want to take a moment and assess what is actually happening in the custom-home markets today.

Certainly, if one is to believe the media panic these days, the sky is falling where real estate is concerned, and we will all soon lose our houses to foreclosure. Most likely there is a bit of exaggeration in the cries of the doomsday reporters, but truly the market is slowing down, and prices in many areas are dropping.

But log homes, like other custom homes, aren't subject to the same volatility as big business manufacturing little boxes made of ticky-tacky for suburbia.

Find out why, from a financial standpoint, now is the time to build.

The large size of the stone on the jacuzzi bathtub really make it stand out in this log home bathroom. The buffet style cabinet and vessel sink really make this bathroom unique.If a bathroom is your passion, PrecisionCraft Log Homes can work with you to design a log cabin that in cooperates everything you want in your log home bathroom.

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Design considerations for Log & Timber Frame Homes

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Three must-know design considerations for Log & Timber Frame Home Building

Whether you've been waiting a couple of months or a couple of decades to build a log home, you know that size and layout are key to whether your home will live up to your dreams.

Here's what the experts say when it comes to Log Home Design 101:
Be true to your site, your budget, and your lifestyle, and you won't go wrong.
While it's only human to start amassing folders of home designs from magazines and off the internet, it's best to not fall too far in love with a particular design until you have your land.


Some communities have covenants directing the size and height of your house. And a site that's clinging to the side of a mountain with a fantastic view in one direction and a bland roadbank on the other merits a different house than, say, a flat wooded lot with an inviting stream on one side of your building site, a spectacular birch grove on another, and a wildlife trail on the third."


Things to know before you build:
If there is a dramatic view, you want to optimize it at much as possible," says Bridger Mountain Log Homes' Brian Gregoire, noting that rooms that get the most use, such as a great room, dining room, and kitchen, should be designed to take the best advantage of sweeping vistas, while rooms designed for more private functions such as sleeping and reading or watching television might have less access to the panorama outside.
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A Soothing Mountain Retreat-Cashiers, NC

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A Soothing Mountain Retreat A bounty of ideas on this porch, from easy autumn decorations to cozy furnishings.

By Edwin Marty / Photography Joseph De Sciose / Styling Katherine Eckert

displayed above: Print out step-by-step instructions for making a fall forest wreath.

Nestled deep within the Appalachian Mountains, Beverly and Hix Green's home seamlessly blends the outside with the interior. A picturesque outdoor living room flows from the kitchen and revolves around a towering stone fireplace. It begs you to curl up by the hearth and spend fall afternoons contemplating the kaleidoscope of colors swirling in the trees. "This area is so beautiful throughout the year," says Beverly. "It just seemed foolish not to take advantage of it as much as possible."

Unfolding for Fall The Greens talked with the home's original architect, Al Platt, about adding a wing on to the Cashiers, North Carolina, house that would let them enjoy the mountain air. "They knew they wanted more outdoor living area," notes Al, "and this space fit in perfectly with the mature landscape the Greens had cultivated for years." The towering maples on either side of the house allowed just enough space for Al to design a room off the kitchen. He simply extended the existing roofline and repeated the wood beams from inside the house.
Colorful pumpkins and oak leaves are simple ways to add a touch of the harvest to a centerpiece.
Beautiful New Porch The Greens anchored their outdoor room with a stacked-stone fireplace that lengthens the season in which they can use the space. Beverly found rustic furniture to accent the natural surroundings. Wicker chairs and rough-hewn tables surround the fireplace. "Our children come up and enjoy this room on the weekends," says Beverly. "It's really perfect for the entire family."

Simple seasonal decorations grace the table, giving an instant touch of fall. Leaves gathered from the yard and pumpkins from a farm down the road complement the roaring fire. ‘Purple Majesty' ornamental millet and green sorghum in a vase lend another autumn accent. With just a few easy additions, the outdoor living room is ready for friends and family and becomes a soothing mountain retreat.

"A Soothing Mountain Retreat" is from the October 2005 issue of Southern Living.

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Rustic Home Styles & Decorating Ideas-Cashiers, NC

If you are thinking of looking at homes for sale or a nice waterfall lot to build your vacation home, I found a great book on rustic modern cabins. Many of the designs reflect the homes that you'll see in the Cashiers, Highlands and Lake Glenville NC areas.

The book is unique and focuses on Innovative Design for Cabin, Camp, and Lodge

Cedar Rustic Modern Candles and accessories

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Rustic Revisited

Innovative Design for Cabin, Camp, and Lodge
Ann Stillman O'Leary and Andrew Wellman ISBN: 0-8230-4623-0
Watson-Guptill Book (Hardcover)$39.95
pages 300 color illustrations
July 2006

Rich, warm, relaxed, natural Adirondack camps, Western lodges, much more
Glowing photos of dozens of unique rustic homes from across North America
Spotlights craftspeople and creative forces in construction and decor

Great idea book for anyone looking to design or decorate a primary or second home. Used to be that rustic meant a dusty, dumpy cabin in the woods. No more! Rustic Revisited reveals today's rustic modern and contemporary design that celebrates the honesty of all-natural, local materials such as wood, twig, stone, and bark.

Rustic structures often have the same finish on the exterior and the interior, for example, rough-hewn timber on the outside and rough-hewn timber on the inside. The projects in Rustic Revisited embrace the hand-crafted philosophy of rustic and show how to take that philosophy to new heights in a variety of styles, from the Adirondack camp to the Western lodge to the classic log cabin.

Thirty unique homes, most planned by architects or interior designers, are showcased here, each lavishly photographed to allow readers exclusive access to interiors, exteriors, and noteworthy details in unusual rustic houses from New York to California, from Montana to Ontario, from North Carolina to Minnesota.

These spotlighted projects, plus photos of dozens of additional homes, cover the full spectrum of rustic renovations and new construction, traditional and cutting edge. A bonus chapter on decoration spotlights the craftspeople who are the creative forces of the movement.

Ann Stillman O'Leary, the principal designer of Evergreen House Interiors in Lake Placid, New York, is the country's preeminent designer specializing in Adirondack-style interiors; her client list includes many prominent VIPs. Her previous book, Adirondack Style, was featured in House and Garden, the New York Times, Vogue, and Country Home, and she appeared on HGTV as well. She lives in Lake Placid, New York.

Andrew Wellman specializes in architecture and interiors photography, and works nationally with architects, builders, and interior designers. His images have appeared in national publications such as Yankee, AAA magazine, and Hooked on the Outdoors. He lives in Berlin, Vermont.

See also: RUSTIC STYLE HOMES

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