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?

After spending a day on our property at Dale Hollow Lake, we went to out to Center Hill Lake last week (near Smithville, Tennessee).

While there, we enjoyed checking out a number of newly built log homes in the area.

Something that we saw close-up for the very first time was a home that looked like a log home, but wasn't. It had log siding -- inside & out.

We currently have plans to use log siding on the basement portion of our log home (to cover the poured cement walls), but we'd never thought of using it for the entire house!

Living in Franklin, Tennessee (a suburb of Nashville), we've gone to Center Hill Lake quite a few times in the past.

But, until last weekend, we had never gone specifically with the purpose of checking out the log homes that have been built on Center Hill Lake.

In our neverending search for a place to call home, Jim and I drove out to our property on Dale Hollow Lake this weekend to reflect on our year-long journey toward building our dream home... a log home.

We took our dog, Tenor. And we just sat there for a few hours on our land, weighing all of our options (again) as far as the lake property goes, and wondering about our likelihood of finding someone (a general contractor) to build our log home for us.

After talking to Bruce & Beth, we are now extremely excited by all the new possibilities available to us.

We had never even thought of living on a lake before!

Here are some of the lakes around here that we feel are worth exploring...