Best Strategies to Make the Most of Your New Floor Plan Plenty of joy comes standard when making your dream home a reality. But it’s normal to have some anxieties as well. You don’t want a new floor plan that’s less than perfect. That’s why we contacted log and...
Careful thought and planning are essential before building a log and timber home. Look before leaping. Take stock of the situation and assess the needs and wants that are driving your urge to build a log and timber home. It’s good advice. Comprehensively consider...
Things to Remember Before Building a Log or Timber Home (Part Three of a Three-part Series) “Details are important for a custom home,” says Dorie Workman, vice president of advertising and marketing for Appalachian Log Structures in Ripley, West Virginia. “It is one...
Things to Remember When Building a Log or Timber Home You might have heard that old saying: “You don’t know what you don’t know.” Well, it certainly holds true with building a home! How many times have you said, “I wish I’d known” or “Next time I’ll …”? The good news...
Choosing the right building site makes all the difference in constructing a log & timber home. The adventure of building a log or timber home begins with an idea. Then comes the challenge of making the dream a reality, and the list of items to be completed is...
Log home experts offer advice about turning a log home dream into a reality. A log home is not an impulse buy. For some the decision to build a log home was made years before they actually began the process of transforming a long-held dream into a lifetime...
There’s no such thing as the perfect floorplan, but there are ways to find the best floorplan possible for your current and future needs. Everyone is familiar with the old saying, “Fail to plan, then plan to fail.” And when building a home, planning is essential....
Building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) when you build your home may be a smart financial investment and a pleasant way to accommodate extended family. Carriage houses, coach houses, basement apartments, guest houses, ohana units, mother-in-law suites, granny...
There are many small but important things to consider before building your home. Overlooking little details when building a home can become nuisances once you live in your beautiful new home. Creating a list of little things that are ultimately important to your...
By choosing the right builder and using technology for building updates, long-distance building can be similar to building next door. With interest rates and the stock of available new homes at record lows, perhaps you’ve decided it’s time to build that second home...
A detailed site plan will determine how and where on your property your home is built. It can also help you avoid substantial extra expenses. Planning the work and then working the plan is good advice in any situation, but during the construction of a log or timber...
An architect or designer can help you plan your home’s indoor and outdoor living areas for maximum efficiency and flow. My husband likes to joke that I’m picking up space-planning skills from him. For as long as I’ve known him he has been a wizard at packing a...
