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Log Cabin Living
Log Cabin Living
It's been 10 years since my wife and I built our log house. We love our home and here are my top 5 advantages of living in the home of record:
# 1. Unique Design
A wooden house stands out from the traditional architecture. There is a wild beauty of a wooden house calls only attention and interest of those driving by. We live in a small town in northern Canada and every summer it is easy to spot tourists. They are the ones that lead to our house very slowly, or we realize you have driven for two or three times in the last five minutes. The huge continuous records with no visible joints, along with massive roof lines of our house has only one way to draw attention to. This is a totally unique design house that stands in our community.
# 2. The Dynamic Great Hall
The mark of a well-designed wooden house is the Great Room. Is the center of activity, the station Grand Central so to speak. Dominating most of the houses square feet and with a large dome and open 22-foot high cathedral ceiling, the Great Hall invites all to gather and enjoy each other's company. With good planning seating and rest areas, not uncomfortable at all, to have twenty or twenty people the Great Hall for a party or a movie. With the ability to accommodate so many people to ease the Great Room becomes a natural space to relax and just enjoy yourself, even among a house full of guests.
# 3. Winter Comfort
There's nothing quite like the heat and the comfort of the rustic decor inside a home heated by wood fire crackling of a wood stove. It is nostalgic and charming ... it just feels right. Nestled on the couch by the fire with your favorite novel and steaming cappuccino in hand, while the howling winds from the north and the snow falls outside ... Is there anything else welcoming? Replace the novel with the love of his life and yes, just got more comfortable!
# 4. Interaction
Design a wooden house should be planned and designed for optimal interaction. The placement of the kitchen next to the Grand Chamber is the key. This allows the facility to communicate from one room to another. In fact, you do not even recognize the limits of the "rooms" per se. They flow as one, while offering all aspects individual practice is expected. My wife can bake or cook, or do whatever, in the kitchen but can interact in a visible and audible to myself, or whoever, in the big room without raising his voice to be heard, or feeling "alienated" from a conversation that may be occurring. The aspect of interaction is a great addition that comes with living log home.
# 5. Decorate Christmas
A wooden house and Christmas decoration are, of course, each other. Last year, my wife was 48 beautifully decorated Christmas trees placed strategically throughout the house! It was absolutely impressive. Winter wonderland indeed! Rest in that environment, feeling the warm glow and embrace of the wood stove, while the angelic voice of Celine Dion singing "O Holy Night" flows through home stereo speakers in the background ... Now it is Christmas log home living at its best! The only drawback was that it could not having the TV, stereo and lights a large space while the Christmas tree lights were because it would trigger the switch. But that was easy to handle ... and trust me, the vision of the 48 trees illuminated with all the trimmings, surrounded by massive log walls of the Grand Chamber, it was worth the inconvenience sensitive.
If you have ever had the need to build a wooden house, I say go ahead and give it. We did and never regretted one iota.
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