Pine log siding is used on thousands of new homes and home conversions each year. Their views from the outside create the look of full logs and the inside is something special. Five areas of a log home that especially create a warm and homey environment include living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, and hallways.

You can select the width and thickness of pine log siding to meet your idea of log walls. Select the stain color and decide if you want chinking between the logs. 

Living Rooms With Log Siding

Living rooms, or great rooms as some of us call them, lend themselves naturally to logs walls. The same relaxing and natural atmosphere is found in dens and family rooms. These areas are made for sitting, conversation, socializing, and entertaining. If you spend most of your time at home in these rooms, why not enjoy them more?

Log walls and a log mantel over a fireplace are so inviting you will want to spend some time each day relaxing in front of them. You can make the atmosphere in these rooms more appealing by the choice of stain color on the walls. The color can coordinate with the wood floors and wood ceilings to create the perfect setting.

Kitchens And Log Siding

If you like to cook, you know how much time you spend in the kitchen. Add in the time spent entertaining, working at the kitchen table, or playing games there and you have a busy area. Why not enhance this room with the right colors and accessories for walls, floors, ceilings, islands, cabinets, and shelving?

Kitchens are the rooms we often see in movies, television shows, magazines, and online that feature log homes. The atmosphere presents happy days spent with the family or mothers doing things for the children or grandchildren.

“Five areas of a home that especially create a warm and homey environment include living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, and hallways.”

Log Siding In Bedrooms

Have you ever spent a night in a log cabin in the woods or dreamed about it? Waking up to a view of log walls takes you back to simpler times many of us think about in today’s hectic world. You can have this experience in your own home with pine log siding walls.  

Bedroom furnishings and closets can be unique or convey conventional ideas of them. Many homeowners use colorful blankets and rugs to create a pioneer feeling in the room. Imagine curling up with your favorite blanket on a cold winter night and enjoying its coziness. Add a stand with a washbasin and towel and you have a pioneer bedroom.                                                                                                                         

Bathrooms Can Be Enhanced

Bathrooms are not areas we typically enhance in log homes. You can make these rooms water- resistant with the right stain and sealing products without tile walls. Think how relaxing it would be taking a bath surrounded by a log cabin ambience. Even better, turn part of your bathroom into a spa.

Tile and WPC waterproof vinyl floors are popular for bathrooms because they do not absorb water and are easily maintained. Install flooring material that coordinates in size and color with your log walls. Tile in the shower area is the best product for log homes.

Some homeowners stain their bathroom walls a different color than the other rooms to add variety to the home. They also install cabinets or a vanity made from knotty pine wood to enhance the area.

Hallways Without Drywall

Hallways covered with log siding create a seamless flow from one room to another. Smooth or hand-hewn logs enhance your movement down a hallway whether it is wide or narrow. Narrow hallways can appear wider with a light color or whitewash stain on the walls and ceilings.

Hallways don’t have to be boring because you can add decorations, shelving, or a small table or stand for displays. There are a myriad of items available to fancy up a long hallway. Make them color-coordinated with the walls and doors for a special walk from room to room.

In Conclusion

We have discussed five areas in a log home that are made special with pine log siding walls. All other rooms or areas can have the same positive effects on us including a basement or garage. Log walls can be enhanced with knotty pine floors and ceilings. You may want to add log stairways, peeled logs, log trusses, log beams, exposed rafters, or half-log mantels to your home or cabin. All these items are available from our retail store and online affiliate.

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