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To: marcos who wrote (448)	4/15/2002 8:11:09 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

their builders would go into the woods with an axe only and make a cathedral entirely of logs This book has some fine examples of ancient beautiful wooden churches. I can't quite recall if they were built of logs, and I'm not at home so I can't check... Norwegian Wood: A Tradition of Building gjenvick.com

To: marcos who wrote (448)	4/15/2002 9:33:14 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

Here are some white pine homes from one of the local builders... I wouldn't object to living in the second or fourth houses on this page. (o: tapawingo-log-homes.com very practical in a northern clime, and beautiful provided that the scale is kept optimum, i.e. if the logs are a big enough diameter for the size of the house ... no more than six per floor, imho, too many little ones takes away the aesthetics for me Actually, most of the houses that I've been seeing lately seem to be using somewhat larger diameter logs than the ones on the above website (which seems more traditional to this area where white pine and cedar log buildings go back almost a couple of centuries around here). A few of the newer style houses started being built about 4 or 5 years ago and now they seem to have caught on in our area. They sure are something and seem to work well with unusual designs.. I looked around to see if any of the companies have sites online, but it seems not. I think the best advertising of all for these guys is to have their assembly yards somewhere along a highway where there is a bit of traffic. Probably just about all the advertising they need. <g> Wouldn't make a dent in canadian forestry output though, a few thousand log homes ... no, we need the japanese to get their economy rolling again, and maybe the chinese to discover the miracle of frame construction - g - Yes, well, you know I certainly agree with that. The wider the range of customers, the less possibility there will be for someone to be able to tighten the thumbscrews. (o: