I would suggest looking at log homes in your local area. Don't be afraid to ask a log home owner for a tour. If you see something you like ask the owner who made or manufactured their home and what their experiences were. I would strongly recommend going with a company that has a dealers office close buy. 

The best way to get your hands on the latest copy of the The Log Home Living Annual Buyer's Guide. This is chock full of useful articles and list numerous seminars and hands-on workshops for the brave. Margaret and I attended one these seminars in 1990 and it not only provided us with loads of practical information but motiviated us to build our own log home.

Finally, books and magazines are your best resource. Here are some that I have used and recommend:

Books and Tapes
Log Homes Made Easy, Contracting and Building Your Own Log Home by Jim Cooper, 1993 Stackpole Books. US. ISBN 0-8117-2422-0
How to Afford Your Own Log Home by Carl Heldmann, 1997 The Globe Pequot press. US. ISBN: 0762701137
The Log Home Book : Design, Past and Present -- by Cindy Teipner Thiede, et al, 1995, Gibbs Smith Publisher; ISBN: 0879056711
The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home by Kent Lester, Dave McGuerty 1997, Betterway Pubns; ISBN: 1558704655

Other Books, not read by me but recommended by others:
American Log Homes by Arthur Thiede, Cindy Teipner 1992
Build Your Own Low-Cost Log Home by Roger Hard 1985
Building a Log Home from Scratch or Kit  by Dan Ramsey 1987
Building With Logs by B. Allan MacKie 1997
Cabin Fever : Rustic Style Comes Home by Rachel Carley 1998
Building the Alaska Log Home by Tom Walker 1998
Complete Guide to Building Log Homes by Monte Burch, Richard J. Meyer, Lloyd P. Birmingham 1990
The Complete Guide to Log and Cedar Homes by Gary D. Branson 1993
Hands-On Log Homes by Cindy Teipner Thiede, Art Thiede, Jeff Walling 1998
Log House Plans by B. Allan MacKie 1997
The Log Home Owner's Manual : A Guide to Protecting and Restoring Exterior Wood by Jim Renfroe 1995
Be Your Own House Contractor : Save 25% Without Lifting a Hammer by Carl Heldmann 1995
Save $50,000 on Your New Home : Yes! You Can Be Your Own General Contractor by William J. Molloy 1997
Be Your Own Contractor and Save Thousands by James M. Shepherd 1996
 
Video Tapes
Contracting a Home Vol.1
Contracting a Home Vol.2
 
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Magazines
Log Home Design Ideas is published bi-monthly by H & S Media Inc.,1620 S. Lawe St., Suite #2,Appleton, WI 54915-9943; 800-573-1900
Log Home Living is published bi-monthly by Home Buyer Publications Inc., 4451 Brookfield Corporate Drive, Suite 101, Chantilly VA 22021; 800-826-3893.
Log Homes Illustrated is published bi-monthly by GCR Publishing Group Inc., 1700 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019; 800-659-1395.
 
Log Home Links
When I started this web site in 1995 there was very little log home info on the web. That has dramatically changed in recent years. I continously get requests and sometimes demands that I include somebody's acme.log.com on my list of log home links. This became a tremendous amount of work. I toyed with the idea of charging advertising fees but I want to keep this site advertisement free. In the end I decided to no longer post a list log home sites on CabinFever but you can find lots of log home related web sites through the log home magazine links above.
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