Cabin Country: A hand-built house goes up log by log

April 11, 2014 at 3:32PM
(Christy DeSmith/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Together with a lot of family and friends we have spent the last nine years (or is it 10?) building our log cabin in Millerville, Minn. It started with peeling logs at our home farm in the northern suburbs. Then we hauled the logs to our lake lot on Lake Aaron, laid block for the basement, set logs, ran electrical wire, hung drywall and configured our own well pipe and plumbing. Finally we can sit back and enjoy it.

Todd and Donna Tuma, HAM LAKE


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