The Carriage House design on our website is a three-car garage with an apartment above it. At times homeowners choose to build a garage with an apartment and live in it while the main house is being built. At other times a garage and apartment are added onto an existing log home via a breezeway […]

This photo series features the Bear Creek Plan in the handcrafted log style. This home was built in Gallatin Gateway, Montana. The wall logs are an average of 15 inches in diameter with a roof system of a larger diameter. All log surfaces are hand-peeled The logs are fit together with the traditional Scandinavian Full […]

This is a series of photos of the Prong Horn Plan. There are about three versions of this home in existence today ranging as far north as British Columbia. This log home is built from 8″ Swedish Cope wall logs. The roof system is composed of log ridge beams and log rafters. Round log is […]

This log home is a variation of the Sierra plan and is located in Silver Gate, Montana. The snow load is about 150 pounds per foot and the job site location is at 7400 feet elevation and is at the base of a mountain peak. The logs are a 9″ Swedish Cope. The exposed log […]

This is a collection of pictures of the Montana Plan. The Montana is our flagship cabin, which has been featured on the header of our website for many years. Some of these photos were taken during construction, some after it was completed, and additional ones from 15 years after it was built. This home is […]

Here is a series of photos of the bath house, designed and built in Melrose, Montana. This design is very similar to many of our small single-level log cabin plans. The logs are an 8″ Swedish Cope with larger diameter support posts and ridge beam. This cabin was chinked to match the original log home […]

The Fairview Plan (Please scroll down for Floor Plan) Dimensions: 44′ W x 32′ D Levels: 1 Square Footage: 988 Deck Square Footage: 420 Bedrooms: 2 Baths: 1 Large Open Deck, Optional Full Basement Click Here for Fairview Log Shell Only Pricing Log Shell pricing is dependent on the owner’s choice of either the Architectural […]

One of the main attractions of handcrafted log homes is the large-diameter logs from which they are made. The typical handcrafted log home has a mean diameter of 13+ inches for the wall logs. This means the logs can range downwards to about 11 inches at the crowns or swell to about 15 inches at […]

While choosing a log home plan is a major step in the design and building process, there is also the sometimes daunting task of locating a builder. Log homes are a unique type of construction that requires either careful reading of the construction drawings or someone skilled in building log homes. A service that Cowboy […]

The Madison II Plan (Scroll down for Floor Plan) Click Here for Printable Version of Madison II Plan Dimensions: 82′ W x 40′ D Levels: 2 Square Footage First Floor: 960 Square Footage Second Floor: 522 TOTAL Square Footage: 1,482 Decks Square Footage: 704 Garage Square Footage: 529 Bedrooms: 3 + loft Baths: 2 1/2 […]

The Mustang II Plan (Scroll down for Floor Plan)   Click Here for Printable Version of Mustang II Plan Dimensions: 36′ W x 36′ D Levels: 2 Square Footage First Floor: 672 Square Footage Second Floor: 330 TOTAL Square Footage: 1,002 Deck Square Footage: 624 Bedrooms: 2 + Open Loft Baths: 2 First Floor Laundry, […]

The Big Sky Plan (Scroll Down for Floor Plans) Dimensions: 135′ W x 68′ D Levels: 3 Square Footage First Floor: 2,512 Square Footage Second Floor: 1,398 Square Footage Basement: 2,512 Square Footage Bonus Room: 1,150 TOTAL Square Footage Living Space: 7,572 Square Footage Garage: 1,150 Bedrooms: 7 Baths: 7 1/2 Wide covered porches, sun room, […]

All of our log home pricing begins with a log shell only. The Woodcrafter Series is a Random Length Log Package. All logs must be cut to length on site.   The items included in our Woodcrafter Series Log Package are detailed below (click on image to enlarge). Logs are available in Round Log, D-log, OR […]

Cowboy Log Homes ~ Log Shell Only Pricing Cowboy Log Homes is now offering two log package options for the milled log homes: Architectural Series Precut Log Packages Woodcrafter Series Random Length Log Packages *Handcrafted log home packages with 15″+ mean diameter logs are also available upon request. All log shell pricing below includes FREE […]

Planning Sets- To help with planning your new log home, we are pleased to offer a Planning Set for any of our stock plans for $99. For $99 you receive an emailed PDF file and a permission slip granting you permission to print hard copies for planning and gathering subcontractor cost purposes. The plans can […]