The Do-It-Yourself Network billed its "2009 Blog Cabin" as a interactive series where internet users voted on design features for a log cabin to be built in The Preserve at Little Pine in Madison County. Viewers then watched the construction of the home on television this past August and could enter a sweepstakes to win the cabin in October.

As of right now, the cabin will no longer be given away. On its website, the DIY Network says it cut all affiliation with the developer and will be giving out more than $500,000 in cash in lieu of the cabin. Local builders are up in arms because they say they were never paid for their work.

Tim Drennen did the masonry work for the cabin and filed a $5,500 labor lien in late August against the Preserve's developer Jack Fisher. On September 15th, the primary contractor for the cabin, Greenstone Builders, filed a lien against Fisher and the DIY Network for almost $200,000.

Paperwork filed at the Madison County Courthouse says that Greenstone Builders has not been paid for labor or materials. It also states that Greenstone's reputation has been damaged by the network's continued advertising, broadcasting and promotion of the 2009 Blog Cabin.

We spoke with an employee at The Preserve at Little Pine who says the developer can't comment on the situation. Calls to the DIY Network were not returned. Drennen says it's a shame that what started as a positive project for the community has turned into one big mess."Dream" Home A Nightmare For Local Builders

Posted: Thursday, September 24 2009, 10:30 PM CDT