Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Among the beachfront villas and Parisian flats that hardworking folks tend to think of as “dream homes,” the image of a cozy log cabin surrounded by quiet ...

You can’t talk about the house on Thunder Lake without talking about Dennis Olsen. For Olsen, who grew up in a low-income family and at one time lived in a $7-a-month apartment, the house was a dream.

For those who played with Lincoln Logs as a child, imagine doing so on a life-size scale. Simon and Rachel Burke of Rhododendron did just that, with Simon, a tree specialist, felling logs on their ...