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Log Homes & Log Cabins

100 Best Log Home Floor Plans (100 Best (Krause Publications))
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100 Best Log Home Floor Plans
100 Terrific Log Home Floor Plans From Expert Designers & Builders
From thick and powerful logs framing the structure, to the rustic, yet classic feel of a log home with a fire in the hearth, there's something magical about a log home. A nod to a simpler time, today's log homes achieve "pioneer" without being primal, and it all begins with the floor plans. Take the time to peruse 100 of the finest log home plans on the market today, accompanied by 300 spectacular exterior and interior color photos in this exciting guide from log home experts. Turn to this guide for inspiration and insight with complete confidence that you're getting the best the industry has to offer."
Complete Guide to Building Log Homes: Over 840 illustrations
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Complete Guide to Building Log Homes
Step-By-Step Guide to Building Log Homes From Start To Finish
From buying land and drawing floor plans to choosing log styles and joinery, every phase of construction is covered in over 800 photos and drawings with complete how-to instructions. From the experts at Popular Science. “Whether you need to know about slab walls or building that first fire in your new home’s fireplace, the Guide covers it."
Dream Log Homes and Plans
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Dream Log Homes and Plans
Inspirational Advice for Buying or Building Your Dream Log Home
More people are building log homes than ever before. In fact, according to the Log Home Council (LHC) of the National Association of Home Builders, sales have doubled over the last decade. "Almost 90 percent of these houses are their owners' primary home and 84 percent are built in or near metropolitan areas," says the LHC. Dream Log Homes addresses the design needs of existing and potential log home owners and offers inspiration and advice for adding custom, personal touches
Log Cabin Classics
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Log Cabin Classics
Features 20 Classic Log Cabin Designs Under 1,500 Square Feet
Since place-not space-is what true harmony with nature and cabin living is about, Log Cabin Classics includes practical construction advice, straightforward and creative design, advice on using local materials and choosing a site, architectural details, and handcrafted artistry. These principles are applied to a collection of one-of-a-kind plans you can use as springboards for creating your own "log cabin classic."
Log Construction Manual: The Ultimate Guide to Building Handcrafted Log Homes
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Log Construction Manual
The Ultimate Guide to Building Handcrafted Log Homes
The Log Construction Manual tells you what you need to know to build your own handcrafted log home shell. This is a comprehensive and thorough guide to how to scribe-fit logs to each other, cut notches, and build roof support systems of large, round, naturally-shaped logs
The Log Home Plan Book: Favorite Plans, Decor and Advice
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Log Home Plan Book: Favorite Plans, Decor & Advice
30 Fabulous Log Home Floor Plans From Expert Designers & Builders
30 floor plans. Thirty fabulous log home plans-the favorites of builders and designers, selected form across the united states. More than just renderings, each floor plan is illustrated with beautiful color photographs of the landscaped exterior and fully styled interior. Weaving pictures and plans together are valuable information, advice, and planning tips from the people who design and build log homes
Log Homes Made Easy: Contracting and Building Your Own Log Home
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Log Homes Made Easy: Contracting & Building Your Own Log Home
Inexpensive Guide to Building Log Homes, Kits, Financing & Construction
This best-selling guide outlines what every owner-contractor needs to know before beginning a dream log home-getting started; comparing price quotes; researching on the Internet; choosing an architect; planning the site, road, well, and septic systems; finding and managing subcontractors; and scheduling and controlling costs. The author also explores the myths and realities of log home life, including maintenance and energy efficiency
Rustic Revisited: Innovative Design for Cabin, Camp, and Lodge
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Rustic Revisited: Innovative Design for Cabin, Camp and Lodge
Great Ideas For Anyone Looking To Design Or Decorate Log Homes & Cabins
Rich, warm, relaxed, natural—Adirondack camps, Western lodges, much more. Glowing photos of dozens of unique rustic homes from across North America. Spotlights craftspeople and creative forces in construction and décor. Great idea book for anyone looking to design or decorate a primary or second home
The Classic Hewn-Log House: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building and Restoring
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The Classic Hewn-Log House: A Step-By-Step Guide to Building and Restoring
Everything From Hewing The First Log To Laying The Last Chimney Stone
Readers will first learn about the history and background of these houses. It then dives deep into describing the details of hewn-log construction, beginning with site selection all the way through to the finishing steps such as plumbing and utilities. Clear, how-to line illustrations accompany the text throughout. A full color gallery of finished structures shows that, durable though they are, hewn-log houses are also warm, inviting, and artful homes.

Timber Frame Homes

Laminated Timber Construction
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Laminated Timber Construction
Shows The Full Spectrum of Laminated Timber Technology
Laminated timber can be used in many different kinds of structures, from roof edifices to halls and even bridges. The elegant, lean constructions are being used with increasing frequency for aesthetically demanding assignments, and in certain applications such as thermal baths, its high resistance makes wood superior to many other materials. Furthermore, it has all the advantages of being an ecologically sustainable and acceptable building material.
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Structural Wood Design: A Practice Oriented Approach - Hard-cover
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Structural Wood Design - A Practice Oriented Approach
A Simple, Practical, and Concise Guide to Timber Design
To fully understand structural design in wood, it is not sufficient to consider the individual components in isolation. Structural Wood Design: A Practice-Oriented Approach Using the ASD Method offers an integrative approach to structural wood design that considers the design of the individual wood members in the context of the complete wood structure so that all of the structural components and connectors work together in providing strength. Holistic, practical, and code-based, this text provides the reader with knowledge of all the essentials of structural wood design.
Systems in Timber Engineering: Loadbearing Structures and Component Layers
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Systems In Timber Engineering: Loadbearing Structures and Component Layers
Comprehensive & Visual Reference to Loadbearing Structures in Timber Framing
Timber construction has become completely modernized. It has gained considerably in market share with respect to competing building materials and is dominated by systems such as frame and solid timber construction. Every timber construction is determined by its structure. Hence it is essential to know the connections and relationships from the design stage right through to the construction phase. Systems in Timber Engineering takes a whole new approach to this subject. It is a comprehensive, analytical, and visually organized treatment, from the simple single-family house to the large-scale multistore structure. It includes the building envelope, which is so important for saving energy, and systems for ceilings and interior dividing walls, which are so essential from the vantage point of construction
Timber Construction: Details, Products, Case Studies (Detail Praxis)
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Timber Construction: Details, Products, Case Studies
Discusses New Materials for More Energy-Efficient Timber Buildings
New materials and stricter energy-efficiency requirements have brought about radical changes in timber construction in recent years. Whether built on site or pre-fabricated, this publication provides a concise survey of modern timber construction, the materials and their applications
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Timber Engineering - Hard-cover
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Timber Construction Manual - 5th Edition - Hard-cover
The Definitive Design and Construction Industry Source for Building with Wood and Timber
Since its first publication in 1966, Timber Construction Manual has become the definitive design and construction industry source for building with wood, both sawn lumber and structural glued laminated timber. Timber Construction Manual, Fifth Edition features an improved organization of content to provide architects, engineers, contractors, educators, the laminating and fabricating industry, and all others having a need for reliable, up-to-date technical data and recommendations on engineered timber construction with essential knowledge of wood and its application to specific design considerations.
Hard-cover
Timber Construction Manual - Hard-cover
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Timber Engineering - Hard-cover
Timber Frame Engineering and Construction
Timber construction is one of the most prevalent methods of constructing buildings in North America and an increasingly significant method of construction in Europe and the rest of the world. Timber Engineering deals not only with the structural aspects of timber construction, structural components, joints and systems based on solid timber and engineered wood products, but also material behavior and properties on a wood element level. Produced by internationally renowned experts in the field, this book represents the state of the art in research on the understanding of the material behavior of solid wood and engineered wood products.
Hard-cover
The Timber Frame Home - Hard-cover
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Timber Frame Home
A Complete Reference Guide to Design, Construction and Finishing of Timber-Frame Homes
Today's timber-frame house presents unique building problems. Where do you put plumbing and wiring if you don't have stud-frame walls? How do you incorporate glass into the framing to create dramatic views? How do you insulate a timber-frame home? How do you ensure that the building meets codes? In this one-of-a-kind book, a master timber framer shares extensive experience solving these problems. This new edition brings advances in timber framing to life with hundreds of full-color photos and rendered drawings -- all the information you need to join the timber-frame revival.
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TimberFrame - Hard-cover
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Timber Frame - Hard-cover
The Art and Craft of the Timber Frame Post and Beam Home, with a Foreword Written By Norm Abram from This Old House
Today's timber-frame house presents unique building problems. Where do you put plumbing and wiring if you don't have stud-frame walls? How do you incorporate glass into the framing to create dramatic views? How do you insulate a timber-frame home? How do you ensure that the building meets codes? In this one-of-a-kind book, a master timber framer shares extensive experience solving these problems. This new edition brings advances in timber framing to life with hundreds of full-color photos and rendered drawings -- all the information you need to join the timber-frame revival.
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Timber Framing for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction
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Timber Framing For The Rest Of Us: A Guide To Contemporary Post and Beam Construction
Details Timber Framing Methods Used By Most Contractors, Framers & Builders
Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers and owner-builders-methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time. And while there are many good books on traditional timber framing, this is the first to describe in depth these more common fastening methods. The book includes everything an owner-builder needs to know about building strong and beautiful structural frames from heavy timbers
Wood: Timber Up Your Home
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Wood: Timber Up Your Home
Discusses The Use Of Wood and Timber In Contemporary Architecture

Looks at a wide range of contemporary architecture using wood, presenting the most famous and significant projects in the world. Organized according to topographic parameters, the book reveals the most fashionable trends in construction, architecture and design. This material, which has been used for building since the dawn of man, is blessed with a variety of characteristics which afford its great versatility. Used for structural work, it is also effective for insulating against temperature and noise and is very ecological.
 

 

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The Timber Frame Home
The Timber Frame Home

TimberFrame - With a Foreward Written By Norm Abram from This Old House
Timber Frame

Timber Engineering
Timber Engineering

Timber Construction Manual - 5th Edition
Timber Construction Manual
5th Edition

The Very Efficient Carpenter - Basic framing for residential construction - Book & Video Combo
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