How are Log Cabins Built? Log Cabin Kits Can Help You

For a certain generation, no book defines American life quite like Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series. Girls across the country thrilled to the adventures of the Ingalls family—Pa, Ma, Laura, Mary, and Carrie—huddled in their isolated log cabin, facing blizzards, hunger, grizzly bears, malaria, and all the other hazards of frontier life. Log cabins were simple, romantic, the product of one's own labor. The pioneers might be surprised to see today's log cabins, with polished hardwood floors, a great room with cathedral ceilings, picture windows, a two-car garage, septic tank drainage, solar panels, and floor plans reaching up to 5,000 square feet (464.5 square meters).

Log cabins have not only become a strikingly individualistic housing choice but some are not even built in America. Today's article may find some assistance from log cabin kits.