Hannah Ford

Throw all your assumptions about timber homes away, because a dramatic surprise is in store for everyone who enters this magical South Dakota timber-framed home. Some things are not as they appear. Timber homes, for example, don’t often define themselves by their exteriors. With the ability to wear any skin with ease, a timber home can be masked, revealing itself only once you open the front door. Set on a slope in South Dakota’s Black Hills, a masterpiece home of this variety surveys its...

If you are opting for a more compact log or timber cottage, whether it’s for environmental reasons, to save money on construction and heating/cooling or simply to live a more streamlined life, there are design strategies to make a small-scale home feel quite comfortable. Here are a few. American families are carrying record amounts of debt as home, auto and food prices surge. Inflation is at a multi-year high, thanks to supply-chain disruptions and increasing costs of raw materials and...

StoneMill Log & Timber Homes photos by James Ray Spahn From their history to their beauty; their strength to their versatility, log homes are, in a word, awesome. StoneMill Log Homes clients Connie and Brian Pierce think so, too. They love log homes so much, they’re in the process of building their second log home with the Tennessee-based producer. “Log homes appeal to us the same as they did 25 years ago when we built our first one. We wanted a home that was unique, but one that was rich in...