Q: What kind of energy performance will a log home deliver? A friend is considering buying a house made with 16-by 16-inch logs (40 cm by 40 cm) and needs some insight. A: Thick logs are a pretty good ...

Some residents in Colville Lake, N.W.T., are using materials from the land to build their future homes. Colville Lake, like all communities across the N.W.T., is dealing with a housing shortage which ...

They are icons of the Canadian landscape, rough-hewn testaments to both a pioneering spirit and an unforgiving climate. But now, log homes are weathering a different adversary – modern building codes.

W hen most people think log house they think cottage. But for some people, a log house is their ultimate dream home -- and they might be determined to make it a reality. *No charge for 4 weeks then ...