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Pandemic leads to log home sales boom in Maine
Log homes have always exuded a rustic charm, and they re looking increasingly attractive as a place to ride out the current situation.
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Steve Howard, 74, of Berwick has been building log homes in southern Maine and New Hampshire since the 1970s. He said he’s never been quite as busy as during the pandemic.
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CUMBERLAND Well into his fourth decade of building log homes in southern Maine, Steve Howard said he’s never been as busy as he is now.
“Normally at this time of year I have one contract for next year,” he said on a recent morning during a break from installing insulation inside a two-story log home under construction not far from the Rines Forest nature preserve. “Right now, I have five.”