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Country’s Best
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✻ABOUT THE COVER: Today’s log-home great rooms combine cozy ambience with soaring spaciousness, as seen in this Colorado home. Photo by Matt Krane.
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SPECIAL SECTION: GREAT ROOMS
Log-home fireplaces maintain their rustic charm with new flexibility
and functionality. BONUS: A look at new hearth products.
Strategies to help you build a better great room. BONUS: When to
incorporate trusses and how to make open space livable.
75 Favorite Plans: Great Rooms
Listed smallest to largest, producers pick their favorite great room
plans for log homes of any size.
106 Finishing Touch: Getting Warmer
A pictorial guide to novel heating solutions.
A Georgia couple builds a new lakeside log retreat on the footprint
of an old cabin. BONUS: Recycling to create a new island counter.
A Michigan hybrid log home is built from an amalgam of national
and international ideas. BONUS: Adding color in a log home.
Connections from the past help create an award-winning log home
for the future in West Virginia.
A Wisconsin family chooses a plan with plenty of windows — then
adds more. BONUS: Putting the “wow” in prow.
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A close look at the many advantages of start-to-finish
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A North Carolina log home gets a third-story upgrade.
TENNESSEE LOG HOMES
The must-know steps to getting a home construction loan in today’s
economy.
Save money in your log home by understanding where the costs
lie. BONUS: Some areas in your home you can maximize during the
design stage, and areas you can minimize.
30 Cabin Fever: Building a Retirement Cabin A couple searches throughout the Rocky Mountains for a site on which to build a retirement retreat. BONUS: New cabin lines, break- ing out additional cabin costs, and how to make your cabin look bigger 64 (or smaller).
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6 EDITOR’S VIEW Big improvements in the May issue.
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78 FLOOR PLANS The best plans in the business.
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