My focus is the log home business in the USA and Canada and I honestly know very little about the European or Russian log home industry. Today I saw a story that made me sit up and pay attention and I thought I’d share it with you. On this side of the pond we’re dealing with a financial recession that has the entire home building industry struggling to remain afloat. Apparently, this is not the case in Russia.
In Russia, a log house is called an izba. What is amazing is that nearly 40 percent of single-family houses in Russia are being built of logs. The Association of Wood Housing recently reported that 7.3 million single-family wooden houses were built in Russia in 2010, a 25 percent increase over the last five years.
Read the entire story at The Moscow Times.
This photo is from the story, and I would have to doubt that this is the ‘average’ log house being built in Russia, but like advertising on this shore, few manufacturers would showcase a mundane example of their handiwork. If you’re like me, this wasn’t what you were expecting from the Russian front.