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A Tennessee couple keeps the family tradition alive hen you grow up in a lo_u home, as Shane Smith did it is just natural that someday you r,r,ould want a log hon.re of your orvn. And rvhen your father ovvns a log-honre colxpan)/ and you are the chiefopelations officel overseeing three sar,r,rlills and a hardu,ood cornpany. providing you with access to some ol the finest htmbel Tennessee can plodnce, then
vou're in tlrc per'fect position to cat't'y on a
fanily traditior.
"I was raised on out farnily farm," Shane
says. 'After Lesley and I w.ere rnarlied, rve rloved into nry grandparents' horle. With two srnall chiidren and a third on the rvay, we just stafted to out grow the house and knerv it was tir.ne for us to move ahead with oul plans." The thousand-acre homestead is located in north central Tennessee, near the town of Red
Boiling Splings. For' -eenelations, the Snriths have laised beef cattlc. Clydesdale horses ancl hay. Shane and Lesley selected a piece of tl.re
property on a small bill arnoug the lusb pastr.u'es with a fishing pond near:by, to build their home.
Naturally, the1, ch.t. Shane\ father's company. .Honest Abe Log Homes. to provide the
log package for their' 3.416-squale-fbot honre. They selected the corlpanr,'s nilled D-style log
to give theur thc round exterior that they
admiled as ri,ell as flat intedor ivalis that Shane feels ale easier to trim out fol u,irrdou,s and fix-
tures. The Smith's rnodified Honest Abe's Westpolt floor plan. "We added r.i,hat ue r.vanted and dt'eamed r-rp ,uvhat rve liked as r,i e went a1ong." Shane says. "This horne is rurique in its rrany offsets and
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