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One of our goals is to help educate and provide resources to help you navigate building a custom log and timber home. Our blog has a number of additional articles, if you have any additional questions you can always reach out to us and we would be happy to help.
One of our goals is to help educate and provide resources to help you navigate building a custom log and timber home. Our blog has a number of additional articles, if you have any additional questions you can always reach out to us and we would be happy to help.
2016 Log Home and Timber Frame Colors and Trends
As we say goodbye to 2015 and usher in 2016, we start to hear about some of the new trends, colors and styles for the upcoming year. According to industry experts, 2016 will be the [...]
Feature Project: 2016 Log and Timber Frame Homes
It’s hard to believe that 2015 has come and gone and we are already well into the 2016 calendar year. This past year we had the pleasure of traveling around Western Canada and the US [...]
11 Tiny House Building Tips and Hacks
Over the last few years Tiny Homes have become a big buzz. For many single and first-time homebuyers a tiny space makes sense. In parts of British Columbia where the cost of purchasing property requires [...]
What is the difference between prefab and a custom log homes
If you have ever driven by a log yard you may have seen a number of timber structures being built on site. Because of this notation that log homes are built on site and then [...]
Why are log homes built in a log yard?
It’s a pretty amazing site to drive by a log yard and see some of the massive timbers on site and watch as crews of craftsmen build beautiful custom log homes. Recently, we were asked [...]
5 Benefits of Building a Log Home or Cabin
Over the years we have had the pleasure of working with numerous clients from around the world. Regardless of whether they were building a log cabin, log home, timber frame, post-and-beam or a hybrid, they [...]
Worm Gear Screw Jacks
This year we were faced with the opportunity of mounting a number of screw jacks (settling jacks) on top of all the vertical posts in a full scribe Cedar log home that is destined for California. [...]
Can You Afford to Build a Log Home?
We’ve noticed that over the last few months a number of people have commented on some of our log home designs saying “we wish we could afford this”. After speaking with them they realized that [...]
Log Structures and Cracked Logs
If you have ever stayed in an older log cabin, especially one out in a remote location, you probably noticed a few cracks in the wood. When you build a log home or cabin a [...]