The dream of a log house or log cabin started some time ago. After a couple of years going on holiday in Scandinavia (for me mostly in the winter) a friend and I started discussing the project of a vacation home in Sweden. We decided on a log cabin for various reasons :
- We like the back-to-basics approach, we won’t have electricity or running water. Nevertheless a log cabin can be very comfortable if you’re open to this kind of lifestyle.
- We don’t want to spend a lot of money and wood is cheap there.
- The building materials should be ecologically sound.
- Use of wood: wood is easy to work with; wooden walls are beneficial for a good indoor climate and it’s a good isolator against the cold in winter and the heat in summer.
In the summer of 2010 Karel and I followed a course in log building at Gränsfors in Sweden. A place well known for its ax factory.
This summer we’re testing different techniques in the Flemish Ardennes ;-) with some 3 m long logs we ordered.
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