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Classic House Design Ideas with a beautiful historic, traditional house style in Marietta Georgia

This is one of the most beautiful classic house design ideas with its historic, traditional two storey timber house style from the nineteenth century in restored condition and situated in Marietta Georgia.

Traditional and classic homes can be truly majestic. Usually created by quality focused craftsmen and carpenters with simple honest materials, these building often stand the test of time. Many survive for hundreds of years and look just as good today as they probably did when they were first finished. Homes were traditionally built from wood, stone, and brick and were constructed based on sound building techniques unlike today where everything seemingly has to be meticulously engineered and tested to meet geotechnical earthquake, wind and stability standards.

This gallery shows homes from throughout the modern world, from Europe and the United Kingdom to the Antipodes with New Zealand and Australia, and then across to North America featuring the United States and Canada.

Take a look through this photographic gallery journey and you’ll see some truly magnificent houses that could even called majestic for want of a better term. Some of the houses are quaint and homely and some are gigantic mansions of expanse and spaciousness and some even span the centuries, which is a real statement as to the quality of the construction from bygone eras.

Beautiful classic home in traditional style and materials with large swimming pool. Photo from Homestratosphere.com

Original exterior of grey classic historical double storeyed home with dormer windows and multiple chimneys from mid nineteenth century.

Street with classic victorian style houses in San Francisco USA. These houses are highly desirable and well maintained houses each with their own unique look and style

A classic late nineteenth century wooden Victorian villa house in Auckland New Zealand with street front garage and corner bay window

Beautiful double brick single level villa house from early twentieth century with twin chimneys in Auckland, New Zealand

Exterior of a classic traditional style home located in California USA representative of many typical homes in the area.

This is a large traditionally built luxury home with two deck levels, a pool and manicured and landscaped grounds

Entrance side view of quaint California bungalow home in the Bay area

A simple American two story classic house made from brick and timber from the mid twentieth century with double grage and drive way

Custom built luxurious traditional style timber house with dormer windows, twin chimneys and beautifully trimmed front yard and lawn situated in Canada.

Large luxurious two storeyed timber home and adjacent barn style timber garage in an early twentieth century style

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A log cabin in the Idaho mountains covered with snow during a clear Winters day

This luxurious log cabin is situated in the Idaho mountains. Covered with snow during a clear Winters day, it looks pristine and inviting with its interesting rock fireplace construction.

The log cabin and the log house terminology are often used by the lay person interchangeably, meaning many people confuse the term as being the same thing, but the reality is they generally describe different houses. A log house is typically a house constructed of ‘non milled’ logs and is often (although not always) of considerably more robust construction. A log cabin is a term more often used to describe a much smaller house of somewhat impermanent construction, and also usually less finished or less sophisticated from an architectural perspective than a proper log house.

The log house or log cabin is constructed from long trunks of timber usually pine or spruce. Particularly popular in the Scandinavian countries like Finland and Sweden where there is generally a higher availability of straight tall tree trunks. a log cabin’s uniqueness is in its simplistic construction, often able to be erected in days and usually without the need for nails. Their strength and stability is derived from the stacking of log on top of log and the interlocking ends and corners.

In this gallery, we show a selection of holiday homes and log cabins all covered in the snow. They all provide a sense of relaxation, which can obviously be heightened by relaxing and ‘chilling’ (excuse the pun) by a hot roaring fire on a cool winter’s evening. If you have an interest isn developing or building your own cabin in the wilderness, check out this book

Hill top mountain getaway surrounded by snow and and snow covered trees and roof