Custom Log Home

[raceu4it]

was it around $400 sq ft to build?

 

[ragincajun]

beautiful house and great job! but that is nuthin! lol i work for a blacksmith and we are doing a job in Big Sky MT. the house is over 10,000sq feet and cost 20.5 million to build! we are putting in about $52k worth of custom hand railing, fireplace doors etc. its all forged and hammered iron. the place is just rediculous......the pillars holding up the massive beams in the living room are whole cedar trees lol. they even have their own ski lift in their back yard to get them to the main ski lift. and the sad thing is that they will only use it 2-3 weekends out of the year....and you guessed it...they are from NY

 

[nmmiles]

This cabin was 12,000 sq. ft. and about 1.5 million. so about $125 a sq. ft

 

[nmmiles]

So explain to me how you accomplish this without settling.
Just to make it easy take a look at the first pic of the garage. In my experience, those logs are going to shrink, and your going to have a 3" gap at the top of the garage door frame.

The home I built was designed and constructed by the log connection. I could not recommend this company as they came out, erected the home and left the home owner with a design that simply wouldn't work for the way the home settled. The screw jacks weren't drilled far enough into the log post, so that they bottomed out before the home was done settling. The roof system was tied into log purlins. Since the roof was a diaphram it actually held the purlin and post up keeping them from settling with the logs underneath.

I'll dig through my pics and find the garage door that I did as a comparison.

Are you referring to the attached garage or the other? The garage that is not attached is only half log. With our houses the corners overlap, just like the link-n-logs. That along with the 3" door trim accounts for the no settling. If you want to know pm me and I will get more details from my father.

 

[dirtjumper895]

This is NUTS! Once i graduate, your Father will have another house to build!

 

[ThrillSeeker]

Awesome looking... though you would expect to see something like this in the West... Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, etc... not Michigan.

I love wood.... the only thing I defnitely would have changed, seeing money is no object, would be the roof... I would have gone with a Slate roof...

Thanks for sharing... now start enjoying the digs...

Cheers

 

[Wade]

I don't know, I find a log home to be a heck of a lot of work. Specially if snow ever touches it during the winter. Anywhere snow touches, needs to be painted. Lodge Log, uses kiln dried logs, and there all lathe turned. No settling problems here, or even shrink expand, due to the always dry weather (I guess).

 

[Luke The Drifter]

Holy sh!t that is a nice place. I would've done the interior with a little less wood but thats just me. Looks like one of those homes you see for sale in the real estate ads in the mag Cowboys & Indians. You know, the multimillion dollar, several thousand acre ranches in the west. I dream of building a log home on a chunk of land one day. No where near that big though, I'd rather have a big shop anyways LOL.

I worked for a log home manufacturer for a summer in high school. It definately opened my eyes as to how intricate the details are and how much time and effort is involved.