A log home (or log house) is technically the same thing as a log cabin, a house typically made from logs that have not been milled into conventional lumber. The term log home is contemporary and preferred by most log home builders, while log cabin indicates a smaller, more rustic, log house, such as a hunting cabin in the woods. There are two kinds of log homes: Handcrafted log homes have been built for centuries in Scandinavia, Russia and Eastern Europe.

These were typically built using only an axe and knife. The Scandinavian settlers of New Sweden brought the craft to North America in the early 1700s, where it was quickly adopted by other colonists and Native Americans. In the 1920s, the first milled log houses appeared on the market, using logs that were precut and shaped, rather than hand-hewn.

Many log homes today are of milled variety mostly because they require less labor intensive field work than with handcrafted. There are perhaps 500 companies in North America that build the handcrafted, scribe-fit, style of log home.

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