Recently in Category - Designing Your Log Home
Where Should You Put Your Light Switches?
Wondering where to place all of your light switches in your new home? Light switch placement is determined by a lot of things. Here's what you should know about placing light switching inside your home.
Kitchen Design & Remodeling: What's Most Important
Considering these kitchen design issues on the front-end -- before you build -- could prevent you from having to make big changes later on down the line.
How We Designed Our Custom Log Home
First we found a floorplan that came close to what we wanted. Then we modified that plan to incorporate our own wants & needs. Then we got estimates from log home builders. Next, we met with designers and contractors to finalize our dream home. Here's how it went for us...
Design Tip: How To Determine What You Want & Need In Your New Home
Here's how to determine exactly what you want (and need!) in your soon-to-be-built log home. There are 7 simple steps that we used to determine our list of wants and needs. Here's exactly how we fine-tuned the process and ultimately designed our dream log home.
Our 'Wants' And 'Needs' Which Ultimately Dictated The Design Of Our Log Home
Here's how we ultimately designed our log home: We started with a list of things we knew we WANTED... and a list of features we knew we NEEDED in our next home. We whittled the list down to our top things, and we incorporated those things in our log home design.
Tips For Creating An 'Idea Notebook' Filled With Home Design Ideas
My Idea Notebook goes everywhere that I go! It usually stays in the car, but I always have it handy should I need a measurement, a color, or a description for someone who's helping us make this home a reality -- such as a bank lender, blueprint designer, or cabinet installer. Or, if my friends & relatives have a question or make a suggestion on the fly, then I just grab the Idea Notebook and add it to my collection of great ideas.
Thinking Of Using A Standard Floorplan That Already Exists?
Anything you can dream can become a reality in a log home. In fact, complete customization is more often the rule, than the exception when building log homes.
Thinking Of Creating A Whole New Floorplan From Scratch?
Question: Should you modify an existing floorplan, or create a floorplan from scratch? Answer: It is cheaper to modify an existing floorplan than it is to create one from scratch. Here's why...
