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Annual Log Home Shows

Here are some Log Home Shows you may be interested in attending... no matter where you live.

Here are some ways to keep the ideas flowing during the planning phase of your log home. In addition to trying to attend every Log Home Show we could possibly get to, we found these interesting things to do in between Log Home Shows...

What’s Your Style? Decorating With A Theme In Mind

Are you going for classic and rich looking? Modern and hip? Smooth edges & curves or sharpe edges and fine lines? What about rustic? Have you considered themed housewares? You'll probably want to decide fairly early whether you want to decorate your log home in a particular theme or not. We did.

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...

Estimating How Much Things Will Cost

Get-a-Quote is the largest free construction estimating database on the Internet. See why it's great... and not so great.

How To Track Your Expenses & Plan A Budget

After Jim dismissed the old-fashioned 'manual' way of creating a budget -- by writing figures on forms -- I went on the hunt for something along the lines of an Excel spreadsheet that could be used to track quotes, estimates, expenses and bids from contractors. I found it!

Budgeting The Details Of Your New Home

If there's one thing we've learned about building & financing a log home... it's the fact that it gets a little scary when you start to consider all of the 'unknowns'. This might help...

Log Home Lenders… A Few Things We Learned

We learned quickly that getting a loan for a log home is quite different than getting a loan for a traditional 'stick-built' home. Odds are, even if you qualify for a traditional home mortgage, you might not qualify right away for a loan to build a log home. When we were trying to obtain a loan to build our log home, these are the banks and mortgage lenders that we personally approached for a construction loan, and highlights from our experiences with each of them.

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