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So, you're bored of living in comfortable, convenient and safe housing? Want to strike it out into the wild to find lodging and live off squirrels? Then either a cave or a log cabin might be the right type of lodging for you. While caves do have their charms, like solid flooring, the occasional bear and lots of water, they sadly enough don't possess doors, so you'd likely be better off with a log cabin.

Before actually being able to live in a log cabin, there are several things that you have to take note of, such as the fact that there aren't many log cabins on the real estate markets, and you'd likely have to go find a clearing, go chop some trees and build your own log cabin from scratch.

Many of us have often dreamed in the castles that we have built with our own lego sets back when we were kids, but there are several small differences that one has to take note of, before mentally photoshopping the colored brick abodes onto a snowy landscape. Lego blocks tend to be made of plastic, which is a material that is highly different from wood and thus needs to be treated differently. Also, lego bricks have these little knobs and grooves at the tops and bottoms, so fitting them together is far easier than fitting two, three or eight-four logs together. Lastly, lego bricks are the size of your thumb, logs tend to be quite a bit bigger, making them far less easy to maneuver.

Make sure you have a relatively flat piece of ground before you construct your log cabin, the structure tends to be not very strong on slopes with sharp inclines, and rolling boulders that chip off the mountains might become an issue at some point of time or another. Also, don't build your log cabin near at the base of a snowy mountain, because if you happen to shout when you drop something on your foot, avalanching can become a problem.

Finding water pipes in the middle of the wilderness are highly unlikely, so don't dig underground and hope to find any. In the past, before water pipes were created, the people who lived in log cabins tended to build their cabins near rivers, I would suggest you build yours near a river too. Just remember not to build it too close however, or your log cabin might one day develop a capacity to sink, or float, depending on how well you constructed it.

Lastly, one good tip for building a rustic log cabin, would be to call contractors to build it for you. If your experience with wood working or house-building has been limited to bird houses and doll houses, you may not be qualified to construct a log cabin, or even carry a chainsaw. For the sake of your safety and those around you, picking up a phone and calling a contractor might be the most important tip to building your very own log cabin.

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