After years of dreaming about owning a cabin, we bought property on Shallow Lake, near Grand Rapids, in the summer of 2010. The spot happened to be next door to my wife's sister's cabin. Perfect!

The great debate when it comes to lake homes is whether to call the street side or the lake side the “front.” For Laurie and Dan Hoffend, whose timber-frame home is built into a cliff overlooking ...

In this episode of Cabin in the Woods, we build a small timber frame porch over the front walk door, and once completed have to cut and install an extremely complicated sheet of metal siding. These ...