This system features 14" tall logs in various widths (usually 6" or 8") with a very heavy, irregular edge chamfer that mimics the irregular shaped logs of the old log homes - or the Hearthstone Timberlake™ homes. Once again, we can alter the hewing look, the chinking gap, the dovetail corner type, the edge chamfering, log thickness, and other details to achieve different visual effects.

In the 1700's and 1800's, log homes were constructed in all parts of the United States. Other than the very crudest, temporary structures, the vast majority of those homes were constructed of logs hewn flat on the sides, chinked between the logs, and joined at the corners with some variation of a dovetail-type notch. This basic technique was employed for important technological reasons. Those technological reasons are still highly relevant today. For those reasons - and because we believe the hand-hewn, dovetail look to be the most passionately appealing - that is the basic style of a Hearthstone log home.

A really well done log home is inspiring.  You can sit and absorb one, and feel a special kinship with our forefathers in American history.  What a powerful determination and reckless spirit it took to create and preserve our unique American culture.  And there are few icons of that culture more compelling than a Hearthstone log home.

© 1996-2002 Hearthstone, Inc.  All rights reserved.