diff --git a/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/Pickles.CommandLine.csproj b/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/Pickles.CommandLine.csproj
index 4ba23db4d..597b983d2 100644
--- a/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/Pickles.CommandLine.csproj
+++ b/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/Pickles.CommandLine.csproj
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
     <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
+    <Reference Include="log4net">
+      <HintPath>..\packages\log4net.1.2.10\lib\2.0\log4net.dll</HintPath>
+    </Reference>
     <Reference Include="NDesk.Options">
       <HintPath>..\packages\NDesk.Options.0.2.1\lib\NDesk.Options.dll</HintPath>
     </Reference>
diff --git a/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/Program.cs b/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/Program.cs
index fcb305160..39135c167 100644
--- a/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/Program.cs
+++ b/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/Program.cs
@@ -8,18 +8,33 @@ namespace Pickles.CommandLine
 {
     class Program
     {
+        private static readonly log4net.ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
+
         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
+            log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();
+
             var configuration = new Configuration();
             var commandLineArgumentParser = new CommandLineArgumentParser();
             bool shouldContinue = commandLineArgumentParser.Parse(args, configuration, Console.Out);
 
             if (shouldContinue)
             {
+                if (log.IsInfoEnabled)
+                {
+                    log.InfoFormat("Pickles v.{0}{1}", System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString(), Environment.NewLine);
+                    log.InfoFormat("Reading features from {0}", configuration.FeatureFolder.FullName);
+                }
+
                 var documentFormatter = new HtmlDocumentFormatter(new HtmlTableOfContentsFormatter(), new HtmlFeatureFormatter(new HtmlScenarioFormatter(new HtmlStepFormatter(new HtmlTableFormatter(), new HtmlMultilineStringFormatter()))), new HtmlFooterFormatter());
                 var documentationBuilder = new HtmlDocumentationBuilder(new FeatureCrawler(new FeatureParser()), documentFormatter, new StylesheetWriter());
 
                 documentationBuilder.Build(configuration.FeatureFolder, configuration.OutputFolder);
+
+                if (log.IsInfoEnabled)
+                {
+                    log.Info("Pickles completed successfully");
+                }
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/app.config b/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/app.config
index 86fcc8b74..fd9178f42 100644
--- a/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/app.config
+++ b/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/app.config
@@ -1,5 +1,31 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <configuration>
+  <configSections>
+    <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
+  </configSections>
+
+  <log4net debug="false">
+    <appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
+      <param name="File" value="log.txt" />
+      <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
+      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
+        <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c %m%n" />
+      </layout>
+    </appender>
+
+    <appender name="ConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender" >
+      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
+        <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%m%n" />
+      </layout>
+    </appender>
+
+    <root>
+      <level value="INFO" />
+      <appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
+      <appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender" />
+    </root>
+  </log4net>
+  
   <startup>
     <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
   </startup>
diff --git a/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/packages.config b/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/packages.config
index 77d9da3f8..f0106d32f 100644
--- a/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/packages.config
+++ b/src/Pickles/Pickles.CommandLine/packages.config
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <packages>
   <package id="NDesk.Options" version="0.2.1" />
+  <package id="log4net" version="1.2.10" />
 </packages>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Pickles/Pickles/HtmlDocumentationBuilder.cs b/src/Pickles/Pickles/HtmlDocumentationBuilder.cs
index 51190a304..ebe372540 100644
--- a/src/Pickles/Pickles/HtmlDocumentationBuilder.cs
+++ b/src/Pickles/Pickles/HtmlDocumentationBuilder.cs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ namespace Pickles
 {
     public class HtmlDocumentationBuilder : IDocumentationBuilder
     {
+        private static readonly log4net.ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
         private readonly FeatureCrawler featureCrawler;
         private readonly HtmlDocumentFormatter htmlDocumentFormatter;
         private readonly StylesheetWriter stylesheetWriter;
@@ -26,6 +27,11 @@ public HtmlDocumentationBuilder(FeatureCrawler featureCrawler, HtmlDocumentForma
 
         public void Build(DirectoryInfo inputPath, DirectoryInfo outputPath)
         {
+            if (log.IsInfoEnabled)
+            {
+                log.InfoFormat("Writing HTML to {0}", outputPath.FullName);
+            }
+
             var masterCssPath = this.stylesheetWriter.WriteTo(outputPath.FullName);
             var masterCssUri = new Uri(masterCssPath);
 
diff --git a/src/Pickles/Pickles/Pickles.csproj b/src/Pickles/Pickles/Pickles.csproj
index b76990338..0d180200c 100644
--- a/src/Pickles/Pickles/Pickles.csproj
+++ b/src/Pickles/Pickles/Pickles.csproj
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
     <Reference Include="IKVM.Runtime">
       <HintPath>..\..\..\lib\ikvm\IKVM.Runtime.dll</HintPath>
     </Reference>
+    <Reference Include="log4net">
+      <HintPath>..\packages\log4net.1.2.10\lib\2.0\log4net.dll</HintPath>
+    </Reference>
     <Reference Include="NDesk.Options">
       <HintPath>..\packages\NDesk.Options.0.2.1\lib\NDesk.Options.dll</HintPath>
     </Reference>
diff --git a/src/Pickles/Pickles/packages.config b/src/Pickles/Pickles/packages.config
index 77d9da3f8..f0106d32f 100644
--- a/src/Pickles/Pickles/packages.config
+++ b/src/Pickles/Pickles/packages.config
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <packages>
   <package id="NDesk.Options" version="0.2.1" />
+  <package id="log4net" version="1.2.10" />
 </packages>
\ No newline at end of file