Log and Timber Home Living

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving to a Log Cabin

Picking up and moving across the country is no small feat, and in our case it was made even harder by the fact that we were downsizing. My husband and I were moving from a two-bedroom apartment to a 650-squarefoot log cabin.

On top of that we were moving from a big city to a small one; from a populated area to a rural one; from flat Texas to the Tetons. And we were having a baby in two months. We were turning our lives upside down, but for good reason!

One thing that I didn’t count on was how different life would be living in a log cabin. I figured it would be the same as the other places I’d

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