a digital publication of Honest Abe Log Homes
November 2018 Edition
You’re Invited to a Christmas Log Home Tour
Enhance your holiday season with a Christmas tour of log and timber frame homes hosted by Crossville.Honest Abe Log Homes. The free tour begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, at The Cambridge, Honest Abe Crossville’s Model Home. Enjoy refreshments and pick up a tour map that guides you to two additional log homes and a timber frame home under construction by Honest Abe homes.
Featured homes and registration details…
The Long Home, 2017
Christmas at the Cambridge
Christmas is the time for traditions – for honoring old ones and creating new. It’s a time for decking the halls, welcoming friends and creating memories. And that’s just what Honest Abe Log Homes does during the holidays at its award-winning model home, the Cambridge, in Crossville, Tennessee. Read Christmas at the Cambridge to learn more about how decorating a log home for the Christmas season.
Enjoy this retelling of a classic children’s story published by Honest Abe for our young visitors.
An Indiana family created a cabin for vacations and holidays right on their own farm.
Honest Abe has adopted a new logo to commemorate our 40th Anniversary in 2019.
Honest Abe Free Events
Our free log raisings, home tours, open houses are opportunities throughout the year to learn more about log and timber frame homes. Schedule your trip for these upcoming events…
Christmas Log Home Tour, Dec. 8, Crossville
The Cambridge Plan
Download a 4-page presentation about the award-winning Cambridge Plan (story above) by clicking the image below.
From Our Blog
What is SIP Construction?
So, what is a SIP? and why would I want it in my new hybrid or timber frame home? SIP stands for Structural Insulated Panel. While they aren’t something new they may be new to you. SIPs have been around for many years and have been used in thousands of homes and...
Smith Family Traditions
Download Smith Family Traditions, the 50th Anniversary commemorative magazine compiled in 2018 to celebrate the heritage and legacy of the Clay County-based businesses operated by the family of Doug Smith.
What is Your Responsibility During Your Build?
What is there to do other than the assembly of my home package? One of the most common questions asked of Honest Abe Sales Representatives and Independent Dealers regarding the log home design, purchase and construction process is "What are my responsibilities?" We've...
Making a Wish into a Home
A log home is not an impulse buy. For some the decision to build a log home was made years before they actually began the process to make a long-held dream a lifetime reality. Others may have explored several building options before realizing that a log...
Chink Joint Thermal Efficiency
In today's economy energy efficiency is a subject that most people are aware of including log home owners and those people contemplating the purchase of a log home. With this in mind we occasionally get asked about the R-value of our chinking and/or backing materials...
Try New Colored Stains
Let the beauty of wood shine through with a colorful twist! Customers of Honest Abe dealers, Mike and Tonia Coulter of T & M Log Homes in Indiana are among the first to use Perma-Chink’s new Lifeline Accents to highlight the exterior beauty of their log...
Cooking at Southern Grace Farmhouse
Join Nick and April Patterson as they prepare favorite recipes at their new log home, Southern Grace Farmhouse, on their Acres of Grace Farm.
