What type of wood house those give the authentic appearance of wood house? Log home would be the answer, log home is “more wood” than other types of wood house.

There are two types of log homes that are divided into handcrafted log home and milled log home. Handcrafted log home is typically made of logs that have been peeled but are otherwise essentially unchanged from their original natural appearance when they were trees. This type of wood house have been built for centuries in Europe then brought to North America by the colonist in the early 1700’s. The other type is milled log home, which first appeared in the 1920 that were precut, and shape. A milled or machine-profiled log home is one constructed of logs that have run through a manufacturing process which convert them into timbers that are consistent in size and appearance.

Before it built into a gorgeous log home, logwood have trough several treatments.  Traditionally logs that are cut from the forest, brought to a mill or to a log home construction yard, bark removed, and then used to build the handcrafted log homes, or sent through profiling machines are usually referred to as “green” logs if they have not been air-dried or kiln-dried. “Green” refers to moisture content that the actual moisture content of “green” logs varies considerably with species of tree such cedar, fir, spruce, pine, etc, season in which it was cut down, and whether sapwood or heartwood is being measured. Green logs may have moisture content between about 20% and 90%. Alternatively, sit logwood in the open air to dry naturally but it would take a long time to dry a logwood. Otherwise, mills that have a kiln on-site have the option of artificially accelerating the drying process. Green timber is placed inside a large oven where heat removes moisture from the logs.

Those treatments are required for strength and durability therefore is a long lasting wood house. A high degree of craftsmanship are also required when built this kind of wood house. Thus, log home appears in wide of variety that has rustic looks and brings warmth ambiance to the environment.