Comments on: Building a Log Home

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:04:18 +0000

Hi Richard,
I really enjoyed writing this article. Mike was just great and a wealth of experience. When we’re ready to build, you’ll be hearing from us.

cheers,
Julie

By: Calico Blog » Blog Archive » Author’s blog for the Calico Cottage Article

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:26:49 +0000

[…] the author of the recent article in Cottage Magazine regarding a couple building a Calico Log Home, Julie Nelson, has a blog in which she talks a bit about the article she was writing even before it was published (back in […]

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:50:46 +0000

Thanks for the great article Julie. We at Calico are all delighted and I know Desiree at Cottage is very happy with it too, as, she says, she always is with your articles. I was interested in your comment that you became more interested in log homes after meeting with Mike Leduc, one of your quoted resources and an employee of Calico Log Homes. Indeed, Mike had told me after your interview with him how animated you had become about personal possibilities. I hope they come someday come true for you.

You might be interested to know, Calico is currently developing a series of Log Homes that have all the benefits of living in a log home (and there are some many of them) except one. From the outside they will bearly look like a log home, and will fit in with the other homes on any city street. We’re calling it the CityLine Log Home Series and it’s very exciting. It’s going to be a unique log making and profiling technology that is brand new to Canada, though it is being used in Europe by some of the biggest log home manufacturers in the world. So, along with another plug for Calico, there’s a tip for a new story.

Thanks again,
Richard Shatto, Director of Marketing at www.calicologhomes.com

P.S. I’ve already put a story-bug in Desiree’s ear as well.

P.P.S. The CityLine Log Home Series is so new, we don’t even have it up on the website yet. Stay tuned.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:27:02 +0000

Hi Shelley,
Thank you for your note and will def. check out the link.

Cheers,
Julie

By: Shelley

Shelley — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:11:32 +0000

We just finished building a log home in northern Michigan. We chose a “log cabin kit” (milled) as it was affordable and we were still able to customize the options. It was interesting to see them build it - just like stacking lincoln logs! Check out our project: www.logcabininmichigan.blogspot.com .

By: Doris

Doris — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:21:36 +0000

I have heard that in building a log home, the logs must be well dried or one gets shrinkage and filling the spaces between the logs can be a long term project. Using squared logs eliminates some of the problems.