Review of A Home From the Woods: Adventures and methods restoring and building authentic log cabins (Paperback)

It has been a long time since I've enjoyed a book so much as to pick it up and not be able to set it down until I had read it from cover to cover.The author and his family had so much determination in the success of there projects that most any other individual would have given up long ago. I too live in a log home hand built by our family but with mill purchased logs.
But the inspiration I've recieved from this book has inspired my husband and I to attempt to build a log cabin of round logs up on the hill of our property unless we can find an authentic log cabin to relocate here. We plan to use many of the methods mentioned in the book .

Product Description
If you've ever dreamt of building your own log cabin, or wondered if or how it could be done, you'll find the answers and inspiration here. Half personal narrative, half how-to, A Home From The Woods details the methods used for four different log cabin projects: Uncovering and Restoring A Standing Cabin; A Hand-hewn Cabin; Building with Rounded Logs; and Taking Down and Recreating An Original Log Cabin.

That straightforward advice is countered with a first person narrative as the author relates his young family's experiences and misadventures completing these projects. With little finances and less know-how, but plenty of determination and a little creativity, they proved again and again that if you long for that idyllic cabin of earth and wood, it can be achieved.

And, even if you'll never set first foot in the forest you'll be entertained reading what some people will put themselves through for "the simple life" in the country.

About the Author
Michael Antoniak is a freelance writer. A native New Yorker, he and wife Liz have called the Tennessee hills home since 1977, where they live with their six children. His previous books include Lifemaps, How To Start a Home Business, and How To Open Your Own Retail Store.

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