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"Natural
Connection" |
| by Teresa L. Wolff |
| photos by Roger Wade |
| styling by Debra Grahl |
| first printed Log Homes Illustrated,
March 2006 |
| view Barker house plans |
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Imagine buying a piece of property
that your grandfather had sold to someone else before
you were born. That is exactly what Brad and Kathy
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"Age
of Reason" |
| by Margaret A. Haapoja |
| photos by Roger Wade |
| styling by Debra Grahl |
| first printed Country's Best Log
Homes Magazine |
| view Sharbo
house plans |
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| When planning their retirement
home, Dave and Karen made sure the floorplan and
design would accommodate their needs as they got
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"Go
West Young Dreamers" |
| by Jim Clark |
| photos by Roger Wade |
| first printed Log Home Illustrated,
May/June 1995 |
| view Colonna house plans |
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For Laura and Mark Colonna,
erecting a log dream home on a mountaintop overlooking
Glacier National Park was a logical culmination to
a process which began in 1990 with the purchase of
25 acres of land located high above Whitefish Lake,
Montana.
"We had vacationed in the area for man...
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"Familiar
Territory" |
| by Peter Lindblad |
| photos by Roger Wade |
| first printed in Log Home Design
Ideas, November 2002 |
| view Bilben
house plans |
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Look out the front window of
Steve and Sharon Bilben’s Minnesota log home
and you get a panoramic view of Leech Lake’s
natural beauty by day and all the stars in the sky
by night.Who needs television when you have a lakefront
log home like the one Steve and Sharon Bilben built?
Large...
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"Phoenix
Rising" |
| by Donna Pizzi |
| photos by Roger Wade |
| first printed Log Home Illustrated,
May/June 1995 |
| view Kvidt
house plans |
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The April 1997 flood that inundated
Grand Forks, Minnesota, destroyed Pamela and David
Kvidt's historic 1937 French Eclectics-style, two-story
home and some of its much-loved antiques. Finding
themselves suddenly homeless and living with Pamela's
parents in their home on a nearby lake for...
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"A
Year-round Vacation" |
| by Loretta Novick |
| photos by Roger Wade |
| first printed Country's Best
Log Homes Vacation Edition, Spring, 2001 |
| view Peterson
house plans |
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| How do you build a log home
that's both family focused and guest-friendly, has
a traditional aura but modern comforts, and is geared
for vacation enjoyment in every season? You plan
carefully, as the Petersons did when they decided
to build in northern Minnesota. At the outset, husband... |
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"Worth
the Wait" |
| by Jim Clark |
| photos by Roger Wade |
| first printed in Log Home Living,
May 1997 |
| view Harris
house plans |
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| Dennis Harris, an officer for
the Crystal Lakes, Illinois Police Department, is
dreaming of retirement. One day, six years from now,
he will sign off the air one last time, turn over
the keys to his patrol car and head for home, eager
to enter a new phase of life. His wife Chris, an
elementary school... |
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"A
Home of Their Own" |
| by Mary Charest Iorio |
| photos by Roger Wade |
| first printed in Log Home Living,
May 2001 |
| view Herschman
house plans |
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| North of Minneapolis, where
the roads turn to dirt and the horizon gets thick
with trees, Randy and Cheryl Herschman found their
own little bit of the big woods. Their seven acres
swell with poplar and river birch, ponds and prairie
grass. There is no neighborhood around it, no sidewalks
or streetlight... |
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"North
Woods Treasure" |
by Colleen Morrissey |
| photos by Roger Wade |
first printed in Log Homes Illustrated,
July 2002 |
| view Downs
house plans |
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| As soon as Tom and Jacque Downs
saw the slight rise of the wooded lot, they knew
they had found the perfect spot to build their family’s
new log home. They were out in their boat one cloudy
morning, on a lake in northern Minnesota, when they
spied a stretch of land where the sun had broke... |
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