Rick Kinsman started 1867 Confederation Log Homes 35 years ago in Bobcaygeon, where he hosts regular seminars for people interested in building log homes You can save this article by registering for ...

Some residents in Colville Lake, N.W.T. are using materials from the land to build their future homes. Colville Lake, like all communities across the N.W.T., is dealing with a housing shortage which ...

They are icons of the Canadian landscape, rough-hewn testaments to both a pioneering spirit and an unforgiving climate. But now, log homes are weathering a different adversary – modern building codes.

Kevin Rouck, 55, built his first log cabin in 1980: a modest 1,200-square-foot home over two floors in which he and his wife raised their family. Thirty-five years on and the craftsman is still proud ...

We have completed the exciting task of notching our first logs for the log cabin build. This video showcases our experience using a log scribe and a curved chisel for the first time, revealing the ...

In this episode, we build the full structure of our front porch roof using logs sourced from our land. We cut several trees and utilized already-downed trees, peeling the logs and creating necessary ...

Tasha Zemke is Outside magazine’s associate managing editor and a member of the Outside Online travel team. She's also an avid world traveler. Josh Drinkard always wanted to build his own cabin.