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Dining Al Fresco

The concept of open air dining is brought to log and timber home living in a variety of designs.  The traditional American picnic has met its match with today’s concepts of dining in the fresh air. Gone are the days of a cooler filled with Tupperware encased foods to...

Home Offices…creating a space just for you

by Molly Cooper, Design Coordinator for Cooper & Co By now you realize you either have an awesome home office, or it is the most unfriendly, blah space you’ve ever had to set in for eight straight hours, or you’re like me and have your operation set up on...

5 Popular Plans

If you have been dreaming of living in a log home since being a child, a log cabin kit can provide you with a really simple way to achieve your dream home. All Honest Abe log home kits come with everything you need to build your log cabin, they are completely...

Designing an Original Floor Plan

Gather all those scraps of paper, drawings on napkins, clippings from magazines and ideas floating in your head, and let Mountain Stream Log Homes and Honest Abe Log Homes create a plan for the new log or timber frame home that you’ve dreamed about. We’ve guided...

Great Room Planning

Over the last 40 years Honest Abe, for which Mountain Stream Log Homes is an independent dealer,  has designed and manufactured thousands of log and timber frame homes that feature a great room. Great rooms are great by both definitions of the word. Not only are they...

Designing a Dual Use Space in a Downsized Home

Use Every Foot of Space Wisely For most people retirement and downsizing means a real change in approaches to daily activities. The things that were “must haves” when children were still at home are not only less important but may not be needed at all in a downsized...