Re-Purposing Log Cabin into a Farmhouse

Renovating a Log Cabin into a Farmhouse Our journey began years ago. We found, purchased, and reclaimed a log cabin into a farmhouse. Our log cabin farmhouse started toward the end of 2010. My husband was out of work and we hated living in the city in Georgia. In all our years together, we had […]

Purchasing a Log Cabin and Transforming it into a Farmhouse Purchasing a log cabin is a dream I knew I wanted. I wasn’t sure at the time I would make it a farmhouse until later. I was hoping to put it on a mountaintop, if possible. But, there were so many variables, how could we

How to Dismantle Log Cabin Taking down the log cabin and dismantling the logs. It was not an easy task to take down a log cabin, remove the roof and dismantle the logs. In New York, we built log cabins from kits. We have never taken one down before and put it back up. Note

Finding land for sale should be an easy task, so one would surmise. I would love to say that getting the cabin was the hardest part, but I cannot. There were so many challenges other than buying the cabin. The next daunting task we had was to find land for sale, obtain financing and start

Financing for log cabin construction was not easy. We had the cabin picked out, the land found, now to obtain bank financing for it all. At the time of the loan needed, our bank, Bank of America, just discontinued construction loans. First off, no banks wanted to loan on a 69-year-old heap of logs sitting