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Luxury Log Home

Log homes- OK, you’ve decided you want a log home, but where do you start? If you pick up a log home magazine a whole parade of suppliers and companies parade past your eyes. How do you know which options are right for you?

Log home kits include: fully pre cut options in a weather tight package; partially pre cut; and random length logs. Before you make your decision think carefully about who will be building the home. If you are hiring an experienced contractor you may do fine with a random length company. If you are highly concerned with high quality of cuts, accurate joinery, and up most weather tightness, consider a fully pre cut package from a name brand company. For someone who is somewhere in the middle, a partially pre cut log home is not a bad choice. Partially pre cut means that that corners are cut so that they stack, but all of the rest of the cuts have to be done on site. There is about a 3 month longer time frame of construction required if choosing a partially pre cut package instead of a fully pre cut. Random length logs extend construction time even more. So consider the weather in your area too when making your choice. A log home is a dream that can be turned to a nightmare if you try to conserve costs too much. Consider paying you contractor well and making up for the cost difference with stock item cabinets and carpet for the floors. Those things can always be improved in the future, but the constructionof your home should not be left to amateurs.

photo credit: Nancy Devine

Building a log cabin is quite an ideal endeavor that is far from simple. To make sure there will be no problem in the future when all the logs are already in place and it is close to impossible to make changes or revisions on the log house that is already finished, it is best to plan ahead and consider all the aspects needed before building a log cabin. Be sure not to leave any stone unturned before you even have that first log placed on the construction site. The things that need to be taken in consideration, such as who to choose as the log home producer, which general contractor to get, how much will the construction cost, who will build it, is there a need for a mortgage financing and how much and a lot more other questions need to be addressed before going through it!