Log Cabin Secrets

Secrets of Log Cabin Construction, Design, and Techniques

Book 5 helps you understand good log home Design—what works, and what doesn't. A checklist to use when you design your own home, or have a professional design for you. Tips and tricks based on Robert's 40 years as a log home builder and 30 years as a log home expert consultant. Screenshot show all the topics.


Modular style construction is an alternative way build simple and complex log homes much more easily. Next, there are detailed instructions about building 


Staircases for log homes—log treads, settling considerations, where to put landings, and more. Design and construction tips.


Special Notches provides step-by-step instructions for scribing and cutting square notches, and introduces a new notch: the Curved-plane Notch. Insider tips, tricks and secrets. 

Detailed, Step-by-Step Instructions to make it easy for you.


Robert’s goal: make it easier for you to build your own log home or cabin. Robert is known for his ability to clearly describe how-to tasks—and to teach. His best-selling book, the LOG CONSTRUCTION MANUAL has been at the top of the charts for more than 15 years, with more than 60,000 copies sold. His DVD series of video instruction has taught hundreds of people to build their own log home. And his hands-on courses have been offered around the world, and attended by nearly 1000 professional and DIY log builders. Now in this new series, With more than 35 years experience at the top of the handcrafted log home industry, Robert Chambers now tells his log building secrets in this new book series.


Coming up in Robert's Secrets series of books: installing doors and windows in log walls, and more. Already available books in this series: Dovetail Secrets; Mitered Secrets; Advanced Mitered Secrets, and Better Ways to Build Log Homes.