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Protecting Design Ideas

It took one mind and three days to design the Glass Forest, but more than two years to clean up its messy aftermath. It's a marketing and business development nightmare - securing patent and trademark protection - a full eight years after an invention.

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Edgewood Log Structures' plans to acquire assets from Kermit Log Works, a log-siding specialist in Delta, Colo., were completed earlier this month. The acquisition comes in response to high consumer demand in Edgewood's handcrafted log division.

Edgewood expects to relocate Kermit Log Works' equipment and employees to their yard north of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, in October of this year. The acquisition will allow Edgewood to provide its log-home clients and the local building industry with highly specialized log siding.

An increase in demand for Edgewood's oversized, handcrafted log siding prompted the acquisition. "Kermit Log Works' expert siding operation allows us to provide a finished product faster and more efficiently," said Brian Schafer, Edgewood president. "The acquisition is a necessary step to increase production and handle demand."

Edgewood Log Structures has been in business 21 years and is perhaps best known for its "Glass Forest ®" designs and its engineered pre-compressed, log-wall building process.

A Chat With - Log Home Design February 2007

Strongly influenced by Japanese architecture, in the mid- '90s, handcrafter Brian Schafer pioneered a new design element he dubbed the "Glass Forest ®." As president of Edgewood, Brian has overseen the design and construction of more than 20 of these window-walled wonders, in which large cedar timbers support huge glass panes with stunning results. Brian shares the inspiration for his Glass Forest ® design, as well as some exciting new projects.

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High Country Hideaway

A COLORADO VACATION HOME DELIGHTS A PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY The Hondrus spent many a vacation skiing in the Rockies. During this time, they often looked at real estate, hoping one day to build a vacation log home. “In 1997, my son Mark called to tell me I should catch the first plane from Pittsburgh to Durango…”

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