The home featured below is the Bear Creek plan. These are photos taken on the job site as it is being constructed. This particular log cabin is a handcrafted log home made from Douglas Fir logs. This plan is 1,736 square feet of living space with an attached 624 square foot log garage. The floor plan includes a center great room, master suite wing, bedroom 2 and 3 wing with full bath, first floor laundry, and 2 car attached garage. The front of this handcrafted log home has a stepped out center great room section flanked on either side by a covered porch. This plan is very symmetrical when viewed from the front. The garage was rotated towards the back due to the location of the septic system which was already in place.
This photo series traces this home’s history from the finished subfloor to the roof sheathing being installed. For a detailed video of this home being built be sure to visit our VIDEOS page on our main menu bar. There are 6 videos which are uploaded to youtube.com which show the start to finish of this home.
When calculating out the size of this log home the garage is included in the log shell since it is solid log. So the Yellowstone is a total of a 2,300 square foot log shell. There are two interior log walls, one on each side of the great room. Also there is a shared log wall between the house and one wall of the garage. This log shell took a total of two semis to haul to the job site. We used a 23 ton boom truck to off load the logs and restack them — lots of thanks to Travis our crane operator (who was so careful and patient even though it was almost 100 degrees some of the days we worked 🙂
It is amazing how fast the handcrafted log home shell reassemble on the job site. The neighbors kept stopping and staring as every hour something changed over the course of a matter of a few days. The log shell was fully assembled in three days. The 2×12 build up and sheeting took another 3 or 4 days. This home was totally dried-in in a total of three weeks with a five man crew and a lot of long hours. Lots of thanks to our crew, Ron and Michele Burns the owners, and of course Mike Lemmon–my personal favorite log home contractor.