span class="cap">A what causes a building's design
friend of mine, who knows to elicit different emotions from
about my passion and an observer. The point being that
fascination with log homes, if you were to picture yourself
recently asked me why I was so living in an ancient castle made
captivated with log home living. of stone - or a glass and metal
"Why a log home", he asked. seaside villa, the cerebral
"What's so special about a house encounters are quite different.
that looks like Abe Lincoln built It is the experiencing of log
it?" His question reminded me of home living that makes it so
a slogan made famous by unique. Just as glass and metal
Harley-Davidson that said, "If I create a contemporary or modern
have to explain, you wouldn't setting, logs and heavy timber
understand". But let me try produce a unique environment that
anyway... soothes the soul. At least, that
"Why log homes"... is a question is the effect it has on me.
and a statement. The question is
I touched upon this same
obvious, but the statement may subject matter in an article I
need some explanation for wrote a couple of years ago
urbanites that prefer to live in entitled, "Log Homes and Log
apartment buildings or Furniture - The Norman Rockwell
cookie-cutter housing Effect", where I said that "logs
developments. Personal taste is exude a sensation of warmth, of
the #1 driving force that compels strength, a sense that all is
one to choose a log home over right with the world. Maybe it's
other more 'conventional' the informality of the structure
styles.
itself, or maybe it is the sense
I am not an architect and from of heritage or sanctuary that
what I can remember, my produces these feelings, but the
psychology classes never covered sensation is genuine; you can
smell it and touch it.
Log homes are not for
Few of us grew up living in a everybody any more than we should
log home so there are no personal all be driving the same type of
attachments to childhood memories car. Some people would go stark
or family traditions in our raving mad if they were not
decision to choose a log home. I living twenty-stories above their
believe that we opt for the favorite restaurant, or didn't
unconventional because we want to have a dozen neighbors living
escape the conventional. The within spitting distance.
stress of living in our modern However, for those of us who make
high-tech, fast-paced that choice, a log home becomes
'Crackberry' world is unyielding. part of our silent testimony
From the morning commute to the about who we are.
evening drive time newscast, we
A log home compares to a
are bombarded with everything conventional home in the same way
from irritating advertising that an oil painting differs from
messages to threats to our a photograph. They are both
personal safety.
beautiful and treasured, but the
Escaping those tensions is painting oozes something extra
part of what makes the log home that no photo can duplicate.
experience so different. There's Living the log home lifestyle is
something inexplicable about different - and most owners will
separating yourself from that tell you that nothing else
turmoil with thick log walls. compares.
It's not just the wood. It's the
size, shape, texture, patina,
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About the Author:
Tom Heatherington is the founder and editor of the Log Cabin Directory and the Log Furniture & Rustic Decor Directory, the world's largest "human edited" directories of log homes and rustic furniture and related information for the USA and Canada.
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