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Amid housing boom, log cabins sales grow – Montana leads the nation in log-home manufacturers

When Dick Neville proposed building log homes for a living in Montana in the mid-1960s, his banker advised him against it.

"He said, ‘Dick, get out of it before you hurt yourself,"’ recalls Neville, the 72-year-old founder of Neville Log Homes, which produces 150 log homes a year in western Montana’s Bitterroot Valley.

He did well to ignore that advice. Neville and other log home makers are filling a housing niche whose national sales volume has doubled in the past decade, making up about 7 percent of the custom-home market, according to the Log Home Living Institute.

Today’s log homes bear little resemblance to the snug cabins of yesteryear. The average size is about 2,500 square feet but the nation’s 640 log-home producers also offer multi-level models that range upwards of 7,000 square feet and feature six or more bedrooms, vaulted ceilings and towering windows.

Montana leads the nation in log-home manufacturers, with some of its most successful log-home companies along the highway that cuts through the western part of the state.

By Laura Zuckerman

Full Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051104/lf_nm/construction_logcabins_dc_1

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