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5. 
LINCOLN LOGS
WOMAN:
But it’s 
gonna
be a log home, um . . .
MAN:
Cedar
log home.
WOMAN:
Cedar.
MAN:
Which I apparently have realized in our relation-
ship that I’m the picky one.
WOMAN:
Imagine that.
MAN:
It’s a, it’s-it’s awesome, it’s diff erent from a conven-
tionally stick-built home, which is what they call, you 
know, what we’re in, which is generally 
[ 
a 
]
. . .
WOMAN:
Framed . . .
MAN:
Framed house, with 
two-by-fours
, uh, batting, 
insulat—, type of insulation, and a kind of dry wall that is 
either painted or texture coated or something like that.
WOMAN:
We are not building it ourselves.
MAN:
We are not building it ourselves, which many log 
homes are built by . . .
WOMAN:
Th
e homeowner.
MAN:
Th
e homeowner and . . .
WOMAN:
Like Bob Simpson.
MAN:
Like Bob Simpson. And, um, they’re, it’s a full, 
y’know, log, which is shaped as sort of like a 
D
, and so 
you have one round edge on the outside and fl at edge, 
and the inside is the fl at edge, and that log is your insula-
tion. Um, they put a very narrow strip on top of the log, 
and then they stack the logs on top very much like what, 
the traditional Lincoln log.

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The Home
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Drive up the driveway. We’re using the back of our 
home as the front entrance. Uh, where it is in the woods, 
we wanted it pictured so that when we’re in the house 
and looking out, we wanted to see the woods and not the 
driveway. If we had turned it around we’d be seeing the 
driveway. So we would go in our-our, 
quote-unquote
, 
front door, which is, uh, adjoining our dining room. Uh, 
we would walk around the dining room; to the right of 
that would be the kitchen, uh, and the kitchen and din-
ing room both open up into a