Making Camp
Log Home Living – July 2019
A new log home helps a Wisconsin family return to their roots and look forward to their future.
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Vacation Days
Log Cabin Homes – May 2017
A self employed Massachusetts couple carves out time, and a place to kick back, in idyllic Bridgton, Maine.
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays The ability to have a custom-designed home is one of the primary reasons that our clients choose to work with Expedition Log Homes. Our customers come to us with the desire to have their log home fit their lifestyle, family and friends. Holidays and milestone events will be spent at the
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Legacy Begets Legacy
Log Cabin Homes – September 2013
Illinois Log Home
A new family home with a country sensibility is welcomed to farmland held for generations. “Our client chose full logs for their family house,” says Dennis Davis, project manager for RJ Dailey Construction, “believing the aesthetics would make the proper statement about family and farm vaues: strong, stable and, most of all, enduring.”
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Rustic Winery
Rustic Wine Accessories Our motto at Expedition Log Homes has always been to blaze your own path. Following is the story of Rustic Winery and it’s owners, Jay Enderson & Dan Sorenson. A shared vision in 2008 by these two childhood friends and a passion for quality woodworking and wine launched the creation of this
Rekindling Summer Memories
Log Home Living Annual Buyers Guide – 2011
For Wisconsin natives Julie and Ted Spillius, summers are meant to be spent at the lake. Both of their parents had North Woods properties when they were children, so they dreamed of having a cabin where daughters Katie, Jackie and Stephanie could enjoy that same special summer experience.
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Chainsaw Artistry
Ever wonder who creates those beautiful wood sculptures you see at the log home shows? Let me introduce you to one very special woman – Korri Walker. Korri has been an artist all of her life. On vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennesee she watched a chainsaw artist at work and was simply amazed at what was
The Energy Efficient Home – part four
One of the best, and easiest ways (especially in a full log structure) to add more thermal resistance (r-value) to a structure is to increase it in the foundation level. Typically, the majority of a foundation wall is going to be under ground, so by adding more insulation to the outside of the wall, we
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The Energy Efficient Home part three – Air / Vapor Retarders
Now that we’ve gotten our wall and roof assemblies together and insulated them, it’s time to seal the home and apply the air and vapor retarders. Air and vapor retarders are sometimes referred to as air and vapor “barriers”. This can be a misleading term as they do not block air or moisture 100%. There
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