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Borates and Log Homes

Let’s talk for a bit about borate treatments for your log home. If you’ve never heard of them, you are probably asking, why would I want it? Well, do you hate the thought of termites of all kinds eating at your house? How about Carpenter ants, Old House... read more

Laundry Room Design: start early, I did

55 years ago, when I was four, my mother had an old Westinghouse wringer washer. I would snuggle up, with my back against that warm living machine down in the basement. It would go slosh wash, slosh wash, slosh wash all afternoon long...just like some giant mechanical heartbeat. Warm... read more

Log Restoration Sheds Light on Construction

The purpose of this article is to share what I have learned through years of restoring log homes, and how those lessons can help people who build new log homes. We all know that log homes require some annual maintenance, and sometimes the maintenance is more involved, depending upon the... read more

Visualize This!

For my first article that will grace this re-incarnated front page of Log Homes on the Internet, I want to examine the role of design and speak of its future. Undoubtedly, we shall return to this topic many more times in the years to come. Since this is the... read more

Weather Considerations not Usually Considered in Home Design and Construction

Kim Elmore, PhD. Kim Elmore received his B.S., M.S., and PhD. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. He has done extensive research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO, and worked at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory. See end of article for... read more