The Lone Mountain Plan (Scroll Down for Floor Plans) Dimensions: 47′ W x 36′ D Levels: 1 First Floor Square Footage: 1,616 Garage Square Footage: 784 Porches Square Footage: 256 Bedrooms: 3 Baths: 2 First Floor Laundry, 2 Car Garage, Covered Porches ~Designs only? Planning Set $99 or No Change Construction Drawings $808 ~ The […]

The Moonlight Basin Plan (Scroll Down for Floor Plans) Dimensions: 40’W x 28’D Levels: 2 First Floor Square Footage: 1,120 Second Floor Square Footage: 770 TOTAL Square Footage: 1,890 Porches Square Footage: 464 Bedrooms: 3 + Open Loft Bathrooms: 2 First Floor Laundry, Upper Level Master Suite, Open Loft ~Designs only? Planning Set $99 or […]

The Nevada City Plan (Scroll Down for Floor Plans) Dimensions: 44′ W x 32′ D Levels: 2 First Floor Square Footage: 1,632 Second Floor Square Footage: 816 Bonus Room Square Footage: 392 TOTAL Square Footage: 2,840 Garage Square Footage: 784 Porches Square Footage: 392 Bedrooms: 3 + Loft and Bonus Room Baths: 2 1/2 Octagonal […]

The Ennis Plan (Scroll Down for Floor Plans) Dimensions: 28′ W x 44′ D Levels: 2 First Floor Square Footage: 1,378 Second Floor Square Footage: 602 Bonus Room Square Footage: 280 TOTAL Square Footage: 2,260 Garage Square Footage: 672 Porches Square Footage: 360 Bedrooms: 3 + Loft and Bonus Room Baths: 2 1/2 Octagonal Dining […]

The Virginia City (Scroll Down for Floor Plan) Dimensions: 44′ W x 32′ D Levels: 2 First Floor Square Footage: 1,408 Second Floor Square Footage: 816 Bonus Room Square Footage: 392 TOTAL Square Footage: 2,616 Garage Square Footage: 784 Porches Square Footage: 456 Bedrooms: 3 + Loft and Bonus Room Baths: 2 1/2 First Floor […]

The Prong Horn Plan (Scroll Down for Floor Plan) Click Here for Printable Version of Pronghorn Plan Dimensions: 72′ W x 42′ D Levels: 2 First Floor Square Footage: 1,232 Second Floor Square Footage: 596 Bonus Room Square Footage: 390 TOTAL Square Footage: 2,218 Garage Square Footage: 728 Porches Square Footage: 390 Bedrooms: 3 + […]

The Cody Plan (Scroll Down for Floor Plan) Dimensions: 44′ W  x  28′ D Levels: 2 Square Footage First Floor: 1,232 Square Footage Second Floor: 714 Square Footage Bonus Room: 280 TOTAL Square Footage: 2,246 Garage Square Footage: 672 Porches Square Footage: 360 Bedrooms: 3+ Loft and Bonus Room (Above Garage) Baths: 2 1/2 First […]

Often I am asked, “What are handcrafted log homes?”. Log homes are such a visual product that almost everyone goes to either the photo gallery or the floor plans when they first arrive on a log home website. A log cabin is easy to imagine, but there are numerous more details beyond just a log […]

As you plan your new log home it is important to think about what is really attractive and special to you about log homes. I have seen a trend lately of log home owners desiring a log home but trying to economize too much. Yes, budgets are important, but don’t budget yourself right out of […]

The main ingredient that makes a log home different from a standard conventionally built home is the logs themselves. The logs make a marked difference in appearance, feel, and cost in this type of home. Within the log home world there are two kinds of construction, milled log homes and handcrafted log homes. The process […]

We are often asked how to build a log cabin. The very best way to explain it is to show it through photos and videos. Over the last 10 months we completed a full turnkey on a handcrafted log home here in the Gallatin Valley area of Bozeman, Montana. The log home plan is the […]

The more you shop for your log home the more you will soon realize there is a broad variety of log styles and prices. Especially in the early stages of planning it can be easy to let price become the over riding factor and assume that all of the quality it equal. This is not […]

In Part One of Calculating Costs For Post and Beam Homes we took the a 2,950 square foot plan and did a cost projection for a dryin contract in the Round Post and Beam Style.  A Dry-in Contract is where a contractor comes and erects the log shell and installs all of the materials necessary […]

What designates a log as a Swedish Cope one is the way it is cut. The half moon shape cut on the underside of the log and the full round top is not mimicked by any other log style. It is very individualized. The cope is the same on every log. The Swedish cope logs […]