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Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice [Hardcover]

Robbin Obomsawin
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<P>Whether you're planning a starter home or a lifelong retreat, Small Log Homes is an indispensable idea book for planning, building, and outfitting your cabin in the woods or on the prairie.</P>

About the Author

Robbin Obomsawin is the construction manager and general contractor for Beaver Creek Log Homes. She combines over twenty years of log-joinery experience with her knowledge of conventional construction methods, and has served as vice president of the International Log Builder's Association for Handcrafters. She is the author of Small Log Homes, Log Cabin Classics, and The Arts & Crafts Cabin. She resides in upstate New York

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Affordable and attainable log homes, Jan 3 2003
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This review is from: Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice (Hardcover)
This book is for the log home dreamers and offers affordable and attainable log home plans. These are not your multi million dollar mansions featured in popular log home magazines but homes that can and are built for the average homeowner with a desire to live in a log home. Very interesting book with information on chosing a plan for a log home as well as plans that can be purchased.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Just pictures and a few undetailed floor plans, Sep 30 2003
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This review is from: Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice (Hardcover)
The pictures are beautiful, and there are a few floorplans at the back. The text however is useless, unless you need to be told that putting in lots of options will raise the price, create the floorplan based on your family's interests and that you shouldn't spend more than you can afford. It really isn't anything more than you could get with a 10 minutes trip to the website of a log home manufacturer, except that it has much less info!

It tells you, for example, that you should make careful and deliberate use of all the space by planning it carefully, but does not show examples of good planning, give you thought provoking questions to ask yourself, or anything that could help you do it.

The book mentions that there are 2 types of log cabins, names them and gives a few uncaptioned photographs, without even one word to tell you what the advantages of one over the other might be.

It tells you that a complicated roof is more expensive than an uncomplicated one. Did you need to be told? It does not tell you what the choices are in roof styles, the advantages and weather reasons you might want one more than the other, dispite the cost, and it certainly does not tell you what the price differences are (even an approx % difference would have been a start).

It does not suggest anything useful and should only be bought by someone who is on their way to the log home manufacturer in their area so that they can point to the pictures in the book and facilitate the teaching the company will then have to provide. This is for a person buying a finished, installed product, not building a home.

I was very disappointed and would never have bought this book if I had seen it in a bookstore. It is meant for someone who buys magazines exclusively for the pictures and does not read the articles. This will not help you build a house.

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1.0 out of 5 stars brochure, Dec 18 2008
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Kevin John Westwood (Maple Ridge, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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This is just a brochure masquerading as a book, it is totally useless contains no pertinent information and the reader is exhorted to hire a contracter on every page. I deeply regret forking out twenty bucks for this thing.
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