There’s just something about log cabins that makes people want to pack all their earthly possessions and set up camp in one of these charming homes, usually close to nature—and away from the chaos of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For hundreds of years Alpine homes have been built with timber taken from nearby forests, their sloping roofs ...

Timber has been a popular source of construction material for thousands of years. Through sawing, milling, and other engineered wood conversion processes, various wood forms have been created and ...

Abraham Lincoln may have been raised in a log cabin, but it was nothing like the 11,500-square-foot one that rests in Millbrook in New York’s Hudson River valley. “There are other log cabins in this ...

Log homes used to be necessities. Now, they're more of a luxury.coryz / E+ / Getty Images When settlers first came to B.C. in the 1800s, many built log homes out of necessity. Today, log homes are ...