When it comes to finding good help when building or remodeling your home, there's a fine line between getting a quality result and being able to afford the type of result you're after. Here's the secret to finding good, fast, and cheap help.
The following pictures show some of the ways that you can still have a nice log home without necessarily having 'shades of brown' as your primary color scheme. Typically, you'll see one wall painted to serve as a focal spot or an accent wall. I have no interest in painting ALL -- or even most -- of the log walls inside our house. Just 1, maybe 2 of the smaller walls instead. Like these...
Here are the steps we went through when looking for a home designer to draw up the blueprints for our custom log home. There are also some recommendations here if you're looking for home designers in Williamson County, Tennessee.
While searching for unique items made from twigs, sticks and branches, I found the best selection and most unique items at a store called Uncommon Goods. Things made from sticks will add a touch of 'rustic' to an otherwise modern log home.
Floorplanner.com and other online programs like this make it easy to design and decorate all the rooms in your house! They're great because they let you to see exactly how things will look inside the rooms of your house without having to just visualize it in your mind. Most of these tools also permit you to enter your exact room dimensions. Some even allow you to draw in objects of your own choosing. Here are some free online design tools to consider.
Should you mix things up a bit and use some light brown pieces and some darker brown pieces of furniture and accents? Or should you try to match all your browns with the color of your logs? Here's my opinion...
Whether you want to build an entire home that looks like a log cabin --on the inside -- or you just want to decorate one specific room in log cabin decor, interior log siding is the answer! When used INSIDE a home, the terms 'log siding', 'log paneling' and 'tongue & groove wood' are often used interchangeably. Log siding tends to be raised and rounded -- like a log... or a half log -- whereas log paneling tends to be flat and narrow -- like a plank of wood found at the lumber yard. When used inside a home, they are both applied using the tongue & groove method... generally speaking
Now you can experiment with color on your walls, trim, ceilings and accents before even picking up a paintbrush! Try colors made by Glidden, Benjamin Moore, Behr, and Sherwin Williams.
If you are considering meeting with an Interior Designer, to help you fine-tune the details and features that you plan to build into your new home, here are a few things that we've learned along the way...
DIY designer, Amy Dewers is writing a log cabin blog called Blog Cabin. It's an interactive site that includes lots of opportunities for YOU to help her design and build a log cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains. You design it. DIY builds it. You could win it!
