Log Home Living

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Comment by John Dilbeck on January 8, 2010 at 9:29am

It sounds like you've got a plan and you're on the right track too build your dream log cabin. That sounds great.

Comment by Jim & Debbie Burch on January 8, 2010 at 7:50am

We also plan to eventually bring the model to the log home builder to see, so they can get us a set of plans drawn up. We`ve talked to them about it, and they are waiting for us to do final measurements and tweaking.
Of course the septic needs to go in first, before the permit expires.

Comment by John Dilbeck on January 8, 2010 at 12:33am

I can tell that it was a lot of work, but it's one sure way to visualize what you're going to have before it's built for real.

Comment by Jim & Debbie Burch on January 7, 2010 at 3:58pm

Thank you John! It started with a line drawing of a floor plan. But the wife could`nt visualize what the end product would look like. So I built her the model for a "3-D" perspective. Then she said she couldn`t tell how big the rooms were, so I went to a doll house store, and got some scaled furniture for it! More pictures in an album on our page.

Comment by John Dilbeck on January 7, 2010 at 1:36pm

That's an impressive model! Somebody put in a lot of work to make that.

Comment by Jim & Debbie Burch on January 7, 2010 at 6:43am

Comment by Jim & Debbie Burch on January 7, 2010 at 6:29am

We plan to build a cabin for vacations & eventual retirement 'summer home". It needs to be small enough that we don`t spend our golden years cleaning & maintaining it, but yet big enough if one of our sons come up for a visit with the families they will have by then.
We have a plan for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, and even built a scale model of it. I`ll work on getting some pictures of it posted.

Comment by Douglas Johnson on March 20, 2009 at 6:55am

John,
We move in our log home Christmas day of 1999. What a blessing! But the way we got there didn't seem like it at the time....In September we were flooded when Floyd blew through and left 13 feet of water in our house. Needless to say, we moved, but had no idea where we would end up. To make a very long story short, we found our log home and it not only turned into a lifestyle, but also our livelyhood. Restoring our log home led to starting Taskmasters Wood Maintence. When we have that cup of coffee, I will ..Like Paul Harvey would say, tell you the rest of the story.

Comment by John Dilbeck on March 4, 2009 at 8:25am

I have always been attracted to log cabins and larger log homes.

In fact, although you can't tell it by looking, the house I live in now started out as a one-room log cabin that has grown over the years as more rooms were added and the exterior was changed.

I've always wanted to build a nice log house, but it hasn't worked out yet.

What about you?

Doug Johnson suggested I start this group and I like the suggestion. Here it is.

Anyone want to share stories and tips about living in log homes?

Act on your dream!

JD