Log Cabin Maintenance Tips, Guidance and the Art of Log Home Life — Page 2

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 16: Hammering the Copper Sink

Rustic Workbench

Since I had finished up on hanging the lights. I could turn my attention to preparing the custom copper sink. I had looked around for an appropriate sink for the main part of the bathroom and had considered using a boulder that had been honed out however I didn’t find that which I sought. The [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 15: Hanging Elk Antler Lighting

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With the custom copper bathtub installed I was free to take on a more simple task. Now it was time to hang the antique elk antler lights that I had rewired in an earlier post. The lighting had been discovered as an architectural salvage place and needed to be completely rewired which only took a [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 14: Placing the Copper Bathtub

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Having completed soldering all the seams of my custom copper bathtub, I was now faced with the most dreaded part of the project: fitting the newly made copper bathtub into place. I had build both portions separately – independently of each other relying solely on the figures and calculations that I had scribbled across numerous [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 13: Soldering the Copper Bathtub

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After completing making all the tabs, bends and seams for my custom copper bathtub in the last installment, now came time to solder all the seams together making it water-tight. If all of my calculations are correct, when finished I should be able to drop the copper down snugly into the bathtub base. I had [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 12: The Copper Bathtub Layout

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I had finally worked out in my head how I was going to make the custom copper bathtub while finishing up installing the tub base in the last installment of this project. When I first started the bathroom remodeling project I had decided that the best way to move forward was to make a model [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 11: Installing the Copper Bathtub Base

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After the final glaze had been applied to the plasterwork above the tub in the last installment, I had to turn my attention to placing the tub base into its final position. The 6′x3′ tapered box would be attached to the floor and side walls and padded with vinyl underlayment to as to provide a [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 10: Preparing the Walls

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Still procrastinating on hammering out the copper for the tub I turn my attention to preparing the finish for the flat walls. Earlier I had made quick work of laying the backer board for the tile floor as described in my previous post but wanted a bit more time before I had to contend with [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 9: Preparing the Floor

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It was now time to prepare the floor not only for the tile, for which I still search, but so that I can place the superstructure for the copper tub which was built in the last installment. Laying the floor was actually quite simple. Long ago I had removed the ugly pink tile left over [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 8: Building the Bathtub

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It is now time to turn my attention to building the first part of my copper tub: the wood support. In the last post in this series I had finished up rewiring some old antique elk antler lights. Although I have made some small things out of copper including a counter top and sink for [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 7: Rewiring Elk Antler Lighting

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In the last installment I had run new wiring for my hanging elk antler lights as well as the under-floor radiant heat. Now it was time to rewire the antique antlers. Before I found the antlers I had looked at a number of different lights none of which I really cared for. At one point [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 6: Electrical Wiring

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After finishing with the insulation as described in the last post in this series, I needed to concentrate on running new electrical wiring from under the main part of the house under the existing bathroom floor, through the foundation. The new wiring would then need to run up behind the interior log wall where I [...]

Resource for Borate Based Wood Preservative

Log Home Maintenance

In many previous posts I discuss the use of a borate based product during the process of replacing chinking, repairing logs and have identified several other uses where borates should be used as well as methods of application. A borate based product works well as a wood preservative — it kills mold, mildew as well [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 5: Insulating

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In the last step I had finished up the first cleaning of the logs now it became time to begin insulating the the stick construction walls and floor. The walls in had been previously insulated with wads of old newspaper which made great nesting material for mice but did little in the way of providing [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 4: Cleaning Logs

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Now that the weather has warmed up work has resumed on the remodeling of the small bath and shower installation. Previously we had demolished the old bathroom. The two stick frame walls have been insulated and covered in a plastic vapor barrier. The log wall shown here in the first photo has not seen the [...]

Creating a Rustic Personal Space

It is important in any home to be able to create a special place for when you want solitude. Sometimes you just need a place to kick back and read in a place where you can get away from it all. Here it is all about simplicity. A comfortable wingback chair, a comfortable throw in [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 3: Demolition

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Since coming up with the plan and building a model for the new bathroom as shown in Part 2 of this series, now came time to dig in and demolish the existing space. Tearing apart the old walls and plumbing was dirty work. The small space had once served as a men’s room when this [...]

A Kitchen Cupboard Reborn: Saved from the Ashes

Around the Lodge

For years it had sat in boxes and crates in the recesses of a storage area in the barn back in Illinois. As a kid I remember many times having to move it here or there with instructions to keep the boxes together when ever that part of the barn was ‘reorganized’. Each box had [...]

Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 2: Designing a Copper Bathtub

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The shower attached to the small bathroom, as discussed in the previous installment, has been removed and the space opened up to its original 6 by 6 space. The narrow door as seen in this photo is only 19 inches wide and leads to the bathroom. The walls have been stripped of the cheesy press-board [...]

Making a Rustic Pot Rack for a Log Home Kitchen

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Ineeded a pot rack here at the lodge. I couldn’t have one hanging overhead with cathedral ceilings in the kitchen and even if I could I didn’t want to interrupt the space. I use my copper pots and pans. What is the point of having them if you don’t use them? I have seen iron [...]

Disguising Track Lights in a Log Home Kitchen

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I have not been a big fan of track lighting but it does have its place and time. In an effort to provide more light in the kitchen here at the lodge, the previous owners had installed track lights on the log trusses overhead. As if Ethel Merman stepped in to sing Ave Maria the [...]

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