Cabin living can be an appealing alternative to traditional home design for people living in the city who are looking to get away for a weekend or people who are getting ready to retire. A log house design is comfortable and relaxing. Maybe it’s the way that the light shines on the log walls and wooden ceilings or just the joy of sitting on the porch swing at the end of the day. Log houses all-natural building materials mean that you won’t suffer from harmful residues as you might with manmade building materials. And when coupled with low-VOC wood stains and regular maintenance, you will have a healthier indoor environment for you and your family. And a cabin building can be considered a green build, as many log home manufacturers use standing dead timbers which, when felled, help to improve the health of the forest and also reduce wildfire threat. Many log home companies that use live trees practice reforestation and the milling process for log houses helps to reduce construction waste and minimize the carbon footprint too. And many log house manufacturers recycle the waste that they do create into mulch or even into biofuel to help heat their mills.
