Restoring Old Log Cabins

These are some of our past projects.

Restoring old log cabins. It just happened and now 12 years later i m so glad it did. We specialize in locating documenting and restoring these historic log cabins barns and outbuildings. The barnwood builders head to cashiers north carolina to build an antique log cabin in the middle of a huge framed out modern home.

Gene england built a replica of his grandfather s blairsville georgia log cabin. Sashco s restoring the dream will give you the basics of log science how it acts in different weather how stains are supposed to perform on them and how logs ain t wood. Our materials are salvaged from old log cabins and vintage timber frame barns saved and restored as modern log homes and barns with quality restoration our standard we preserve the quality craftsmanship of early log cabin construction bringing to life centuries old cabins and barns using materials that simply don t exist in today s trade.

They show our process of building and restoring antique hand hewn log structures. Over the years johnson has restored about 100 log cabins and timber frame barns throughout the midwest. While clearing his 55 acre property he realized there was some wonderful ti.

I bought our little house in the forest somewhere around 1999. It s a tired adage but it s true that they just don t make em like they used to. The new log face is attached with wood epoxy and screws that are countersunk and hidden so it blends in.

A second story was added by removing the roof and gables constructing a second floor laying additional courses of logs and building a new roof or reassembling the old one. This info will help you begin to answer some of the questions yourself. Old log cabins is dedicated to preserving the spirit of the american pioneer by offering original antique hand hewn log cabins structures and materials to our customers.

He typically restores 6 or so cabins a year the older the better. In rural areas two story log houses were sometimes built to replace earlier first generation settlement cabins but just as often the early hewn log house was retained and enlarged. It was never a grand life goal or something i thought i might like to do someday.