Got an interesting email from Joe this weekend...

Just beginning to layout plans for possible log home in TN. Have you considered Geothermal. Everything I read sounds good and I'm thinking that I have to dig out the basement so why not look at this option placed in surrounding opening. Electricity may be cheap in TN but not here in FL. Also looking at prefabbed basement as in this OLD House. Meeting with TN log home and Honest Abe next week." -- Joe

This topic might be of interest to others, so here are my thoughts...

What started as one 3-ring notebook filled with design & decorating ideas, quickly became one overstuffed notebook that was soon crammed with every single idea that I saw somewhere else and liked.

After gathering a year's worth of ideas, it appeared that I had outgrown that original notebook!

It was time to reorganize...

I can't help but wonder... when it comes to screening in a porch, which is the most likely to be used and appreciated? A screened in front porch? Or, a screened in back porch?

We are, of course, talking about a log home here. So the fact of the matter is, both porches are likely to be used equally as much. But still... which is the most popular option when it comes to screened porches on log homes?

I thought I'd tell you a little about one of the other lakes in Tennessee that we considered, ever so briefly: Center Hill Lake in Middle Tennessee.

Lakefront (or waterfront) property in Tennessee is very hard to come by these days... I don't care who you are!

Why?

Despite the fact that we worked nearly a year fine-tuning the details of our custom log home, there actually came a time when we thought we were going to have to start all over from scratch and redesign a whole new house.

That meant we'd need a log home designer to compile a set of custom plans for us. So the search was on...

Here's how we found a log home designer (...with some recommendations of architects and designers here in the Williamson County, Tennessee area).

Can you see it now???

What a difference a couple of days makes!
(...and a bush hogging machine or two)