re: Has anyone here had a log cabin built?

Like so many centuries old houses in East Tennessee, ours started as a log cabin (two stories high) and then there were additions.

As we were renovating the old farm house, we lived in that log cabin. Its heat retention in winter and cool maintenance in summer were remarkable. Ours is of old growth pine, and if you need to know about chinking between the logs, and surface treatments for the logs, I have done both, and learned as I worked.