From October into November, my wife and I—and our two dogs—drove from New Mexico to Vermont to turn our unfinished 12-by-12 log cabin into a little off-grid home. We transformed it from the empty ...

This story was originally published in 2019. Justin Lyons said his wife always wanted a house on a lake. The fact that the house just happened to be a log cabin was a coincidence. The log cabin being ...