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Log Homes
Handcrafted log homes have been built for centuries in Scandinavia, Russia and Eastern Europe. The Scandinavian settlers of New Sweden brought the craft to North America in the early 1700s, where it was quickly adopted by other colonists and Native Americans. In the 1920s, the first milled log houses appeared on the market, using logs that were precut and shaped, rather than hand-hewn. Most log homes today are of milled variety mostly because they require less labor intensive field work and there are many more options available than with handcrafted alone.
There are two kinds of log homes: "handcrafted" and "milled" (also called "machine-profiled"), made with a log house moulder. A handcrafted log home is typically made of logs that have been peeled but are otherwise essentially unchanged from their original natural appearance when they were trees. A milled or machine-profiled log home is one constructed of logs that have run through a manufacturing process to remove natural features and imperfections of the log and convert them into timbers that are consistent in size and appearance.
Log Home Kit
The term, Log Home Kit, refers to the "package" or product of log home companies. The Log Home Kit contains the handcrafted or milled logs that are necessary to build a specific log home plan. Log home companies typically offer a variety of packages (and prices) that may range from nothing but the logs, all the way up to a complete construction material kit that may contain windows, doors, roof, interior walls, stairs, decks, trim, and more. When comparing Log Home Kits, it is important to look at the detailed material list because no two companies are alike in kit contents.
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