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...growing number of Americans are building log houses that capture a rustic feel but still have all the amenities of contemporary custom homes. According to the Log Home Council of the National Association of Home Builders, more than 25,000 log homes are built each year, up from about 7,000 in the mid-1980s. Sales in the U.S. and Canada have more than doubled since 1998, to $1.37 billion. Those homes now account for 7% of the custom-home-building market. And their popularity is widespread, from Colorado to the Catskills...
...homes have come a long way from the one-room cabin Abe Lincoln lived in as a boy. Today many of the custom-built variety are palatial--with high ceilings, six or more bedrooms, great rooms for entertaining, floor-to-ceiling windows and detailed stone and marble work. The adult Honest Abe would have felt right at home in this new generation of log mansions, and he would have had plenty of room to stretch...
...only 4-in. by 6-in. prints, fuses thermal dye onto special photo paper. Four passes of primary color, and out comes an image that fingerprints won't harm. The 540 can print directly from the memory cards of most cameras or connect to the latest digital cameras for custom jobs...
Make your own custom cover, or download free ones from HP. This mildly adhesive paper comes in 10-packs, so if you get bored with one design, you can peel it off and replace it. hp.com ($15 per pack...
...when he was a kid. But when a friend and fellow ice fisherman died after falling through the ice a few years ago, Haney, a state-park maintenance worker in Rhodes, Mich., decided to create a vehicle that would prevent similar tragedies. His Snow Boat is a 14-ft. custom-made aluminum craft welded onto a standard snowmobile. If the ice breaks, the boat stays afloat so passengers won't fall into the freezing cold water...