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Like the term, Country, the term Rustic represents a feeling and a look, rather than a true architectural style. Most characteristic of Rustic houses is the log cabin. Although easily confused by the use of logs as the principal building component, Pioneer Log homes are dramatically different in both purpose and design from Rustic Log architecture. Pioneer log structures were built from around 1860, well into the 1900s. In the 1860s, when many of their homes were being constructed, they were built in, or close to mountainous areas. They built these log houses from round logs, hewn logs, or log slabs (saw mill discards) which were usually laid in alternating tiers, with the spaces between filled with stones, wet clay,animal hair, straw or wood. These Pioneer Log structures were always primary residences. In contrast, while Rustic architecture also uses log and stone for building materials, there the similarity ends. Rustic log homes are designed by architects to blend in with their natural surroundings, and are usually second homes, hunting lodges and ranches, "to get away from it all." In other parts of the country, particularly the Northeast and Northwest, Timber-Frame houses, using building techniques thousands of years old, began appearing in the colonies during the 1600s. The homes are now found in rural or mountainous areas far from the cities. Noted for their exposed timbers creating an open woody feeling, and their handcrafted mortise and tenon joinery, Timber-Frame and Post-and-Beam structures make ideal vacation homes, lodges, and artists' studios. These buildings provide great amounts of open spaces and light, making layouts and floor plans limited only by one's wants and needs. The furniture and furnishings used in these homes are culled from many different and varied sources. The Rustic homes, like the Country homes, are most often second homes, where, in today's fast-paced world, people can find the peace, relaxation and solitude unavailable in their city or suburban residences.
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