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Building a Dream Log Home

o you have a bucket list? We don’t, exactly, but we do have a lot of ideas that we just go for when the timing feels right — and sometimes our desires surprise us. We used to have everything one could ask for: great jobs, steady income, a nice home, a little vacation log cabin. We moved to Sweden in 2015, and we were in the middle of renovating the 100-year-old farm that we’d purchased — but something was missing. We found ourselves wanting a different living situation, and we

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