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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dry-In Package Inclusions Please Call or Email For Dryin Material Package Pricing DRY-IN PACKAGE INCLUSIONS: 1. First Floor Sub-floor 2. Second Floor Sub-floor Including: Girder Beam, Rim Board, Support Posts, Floor Joists, Sheeting Framing for Dormers, Sheeting for Dormer Walls (as per plan) 3. Dormer Materials: Framing for Dormers (as per plan) Sheeting for Dormers […]

Architectural Round Log Shell Detail Sheet All of our log home pricing begins with a log shell only. The Architectural Series is a Precut Log Package with door and window openings precut, corners prenotched, and pitching etc. This shortens the building time and reduces waste on site. The items included in our Architectural Series Log […]

After our last article, “Log Home Turnkey Costs Today”, some of our readers asked for a bit more clarification about exactly what a turnkey cost includes and a few more details relating to construction. Turnkey Pricing Inclusions for Log Homes Turnkey pricing includes all of the labor and materials needed to complete the house so […]

A very common question we are asked is the current cost of a full turnkey solution for a log home in the Bozeman, Montana area.  While labor and material costs fluctuate often in today’s, markets, we try to give an informed and reasonable guestimate for people planning to build in the 2023 construction season. Turnkey […]

Sometimes adding a few frills to your log home really don’t cost much more. One of these frills is an upper level exterior balcony. Here we see the Cowboy II Plan from the view side. The upper balcony is accessed from the half loft. The main cost difference to the original log package is to […]

Several elements go into log home pricing. Owners can purchase just a log shell from Cowboy Log Homes, a complete dry-in shell, or a combination of log shell plus some other materials. We begin with log shell pricing on three sizes of logs: the 6×8 D-log with square timbers, the 8×8 D-log with square timbers, […]

Archtitectural D-Log Shell Detail Sheet All of our log home pricing begins with a log shell only. The items included in our standard D-log package are detailed below (click on image to enlarge). A D-log profile provides a flat surface on the interior of the home and a rounded profile on the exterior. D-log packages […]

A new log home holds the allure of being decidedly yours from day one. Having the opportunity to make all the selections, from wall log size to the complete kitchen layout, insures the home is custom tailored to meet your specific wants and needs. But one drawback is the time required to build the log cabin […]

All log homes need a heat system of some sort. Over the years we have seen homeowners put many different kinds of systems in log cabins. Factors such as climate and what fuel sources are available all impact the final choice of which heating system is the best option for your new home. Typically, banks […]

Log Homes are so much more than just logs. If  you think about what drew you towards a log home in the beginning you will probably find that it wasn’t just the log walls that captured all of your attention. Most likely there are a number of other features that makes a log home so appealing […]

We are proud to have supplied a few photos for the Log Home Living July 2015 issue. These photos showcase a log home under construction, but with materials that are not as expensive as some on the market. When the home below was built the owners chose the large diameter handcrafted logs because they fell […]