Nashville Log & Timber Home Show Highlights

Dates & Times:

Friday, Feb. 16th Noon - 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 17th 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 18th 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The only bummer is the fact that it costs $15 per person to get in. But that one ticket gets you in all three days... so that's a nice thing.

UPDATE: Here's the info for the 2008 Nashville Log Home Show (Jan 25-27th), plus a 20% off coupon you can print online!

Children 18 and under are free.

Who Will Be There?

According to the website, the following log home exhibitors are scheduled to be there:

Advantage Construction Concepts	Allstate Funding, LLC
American Traders	Ancestral Floors
B.K. Cypress Log Homes	Barna Log Homes, LLC
Bear Tracks Chainsaw Carvings	Blue Ridge Timberwrights
Burk Construction	Cockburn Island Forest Products
Cumberland Valley Log Homes	Daniel Boone Log Homes
DirectBuy of Cool Springs	Ducharme Log Homes
Expedition Log Homes	F & B Farm
Farm Credit Services	FischerSIPS
Golden Eagle Log Homes	Gun Barrel Ranch
Happy Feet	Hearthstone Homes, Inc.
Heritage Log Homes	Highlands Log Structures
Honest Abe Log Homes, Inc.	Joni Hamari Fine Arts
Katahdin Cedar Log Homes	Keepsake Imports
Kentucky Lakefront Properties	Kitchen Craft International
Kuhns Bros. Log Homes	Landmark Log Homes
Land South Realty	Land Venture Group
Leatherwood Log Homes Ltd.	Lifetime Cookware
Lincoln Logs Ltd., The Original	Lindal Cedar Homes, Inc.
Log Cabin Manufacturer	Lustre Craft Cookware
M&T Mortgage	McKeough Land Company
Merrill Lynch	Original Old Timer Log Homes
Ottertail Cedar Log Furniture	Outdoor Company
Pacific Log Homes	Perma-Chink Systems, Inc.
PineRidge Timberframe	Pioneer Log Systems, Inc.
Premium Wood Works	Riverbend Timber Framing
Rocky Mountain Log Homes	Satterwhite Log Homes
Simple Country Log Homes	Southern Heritage Woodworks, Inc.
Southland Log Homes, Inc.	Suwannee River Log Homes
Tennessee Log Homes	Terry Wilson Antler Designs
Timberpeg	Trail Blazers
True North Log Homes, Inc.	Viceroy Homes
Watermark Products, Inc.

That's a pretty impressive list of reps for the log home industry! (Plus, there are always more vendors who show up at the last minute, who didn't have time to have their name added to the schedule.)

Thousands of people -- including current and future log home owners -- will be in attendance.

Throughout each day, there are FREE 50-minute workshops on a variety of topics including: building, financing, choosing a company/builder, etc.

Optional 1/2-Day Seminar

One cool feature to this particular log home show is the fact that they offer an optional 6-hour seminar in a classroom environment.

If you plan to attend the seminar, it costs $75 (individual) or $99 (couple) and includes admission to all three days of the show.

For the Nashville show, the seminar date is:

Saturday, February 17
9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

What it's like:
An unbiased speaker presents the "Six Steps to Your Dream Home" to an audience of 100- 300 who have preregistered for the seminar.

Highlights:
Step 1: Budget decisions
Step 2: Site decisions
Step 3: Design decisions
Step 4: Deciding on a log home company
Step 5: Deciding on a lender
Step 6: Deciding on a builder

In sum, you'll be meeting one-on-one with professionals in your own area. You'll learn how to create a realistic budget, design a log home to fit your lifestyle, evaluate log home companies, avoid costly mistakes, and prioritize your budget.

If you're fairly early in the log home building process -- or still trying to decide whether a log home is right for you and your family -- then the Log & Timber Home Seminar would be right up your alley!

UPDATE: Word is... the 2007 Nashville Log & Timber Home Seminar is now sold out. But that's okay... you'll have plenty to see & do at your own pace during the entire 3-day event!