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Timber Frame Projects - Honest Abe Log Homes & Cabins
A timber frame home is a beautiful, economic and flexible choice for rustic living.
a living room with couches, tables and a television mounted to the wall in front of a fireplace
Timber Frame Projects - Honest Abe Log Homes & Cabins
A timber frame home is a beautiful, economic and flexible choice for rustic living.
Shane and Lesley Smith will soon celebrate 20 years in their custom Honest Abe Log Home. Being the son of Honest Abe’s founders, Doug and Janie Smith, and having worked in the family business all his life and grown up in a log home, he always wanted a log home for his own family. Fortunately, wife Lesley agreed. The pair built their 3,416-square-foot log cabin just as their family began to grow, and as the years have passed, they have made adjustments to accommodate the changes in their lives. Log Homes, Log Home, A Log, Family Business, Grown Up, Log Cabin, Will Smith, A Thing, 20 Years
Shane & Lesley Smith Home - Honest Abe Log Homes & Cabins
Shane and Lesley Smith will soon celebrate 20 years in their custom Honest Abe Log Home. Being the son of Honest Abe’s founders, Doug and Janie Smith, and having worked in the family business all his life and grown up in a log home, he always wanted a log home for his own family. Fortunately, wife Lesley agreed. The pair built their 3,416-square-foot log cabin just as their family began to grow, and as the years have passed, they have made adjustments to accommodate the changes in their lives.
Shane and Lesley Smith will soon celebrate 20 years in their custom Honest Abe Log Home. Being the son of Honest Abe’s founders, Doug and Janie Smith, and having worked in the family business all his life and grown up in a log home, he always wanted a log home for his own family. Fortunately, wife Lesley agreed. The pair built their 3,416-square-foot log cabin just as their family began to grow, and as the years have passed, they have made adjustments to accommodate the changes in their lives.
Shane & Lesley Smith Home - Honest Abe Log Homes & Cabins
Shane and Lesley Smith will soon celebrate 20 years in their custom Honest Abe Log Home. Being the son of Honest Abe’s founders, Doug and Janie Smith, and having worked in the family business all his life and grown up in a log home, he always wanted a log home for his own family. Fortunately, wife Lesley agreed. The pair built their 3,416-square-foot log cabin just as their family began to grow, and as the years have passed, they have made adjustments to accommodate the changes in their lives.
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Glenn Perrin – Dealer Spotlight - Honest Abe Log Homes & Cabins
Glenn Perrin, pictured above with Honest Abe VP Jeff Clements, has been an Independent Dealer with Honest Abe Log Homes since 1998. A general contractor in South Central, Illinois, Glenn is also a dealer for Nudura ICF forms in addition to his log home sales and construction business, H. H. Log Sales.
two men standing next to each other in front of a wooden fence near a barn
Glenn Perrin – Dealer Spotlight
Glenn Perrin, pictured above with Honest Abe VP Jeff Clements, has been an Independent Dealer with Honest Abe Log Homes since 1998. His square foot average per sale is probably #1 in our network of dealers. Recently Glenn has sold and built several log homes using the Grandfield plan.
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It’s Time! Decluttering and Spring Cleaning
It is inevitable, just likes bill come in the mail month after month, spring cleaning comes around year after year without fail. Don’t dread it, but learn how to dive in make it easier, and commit to your decluttering decisions and in the end your home will sing of spring time and feel refreshed and renewed for the year to come.
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A Daughter’s Memory
In this message from April Smith Patterson, the daughter of Honest Abe’s founders, Doug and Janie Smith, April shares one of her special memories of her late father and her mother, who along with April and her brother, Shane, operate Honest Abe and the other companies developed and owned by Doug, Janie and their children.
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Honest Abe Owner Featured as “Farm Mom” In Statewide Campaign
April Smith Patterson, one of the owners of Honest Abe Log Homes and daughter of founders Doug and Janie Smith, is also actively involved in agriculture-related businesses with her husband, Dr. Nick Patterson. April has been honored by the Tennessee Beef Industry Council by being selected for its Farm Moms campaign that focuses on outstanding women and mothers in the beef industry.
a woman with long hair smiling at the camera
Honest Abe Owner Featured as “Farm Mom” In Statewide Campaign
April Smith Patterson, one of the owners of Honest Abe Log Homes and daughter of founders Doug and Janie Smith, is also actively involved in agriculture-related businesses with her husband, Dr. Nick Patterson. April has been honored by the Tennessee Beef Industry Council by being selected for its Farm Moms campaign that focuses on outstanding women and mothers in the beef industry.