From log cabin house plans to your dream house

Great log cabin house

Once you've decided that log cabin house will be your dream house, you need to choose home plan out of hundreds of house designs. Here I've gathered some useful advices for you, which I hope would save you time and money in your quest.

First, you have to make some basic decisions regarding your log home. Make sure you have answers for all these questions:

1. What's the size of your lot? How big your house can be?

2. How many bedrooms and stories you're planning for your new log home?

3. Get more information about flooring styles, interior wall and ceiling, so you can choose the kind that would suit you the most,

4. How much money can you spend?

What are the formats for log home floor plans? What kind of drawings are included?

Besides the familiar printed version, on blueprint paper, your log home design can also be purchased as cad plans, which are most useful if you're intending many changes for the original stock plan. This is an electronic version of the hose plan, which actual blueprint paper can be produced from very easily. There are many kinds of sheets that are need for building your dream log house:

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Exterior Elevations, Foundation Plan, Floor Plan, Section views, Roof Plan and Interior Details. I'll give more details about each sheet on my next post,with some other information about log home plans.

Log cabin plans and small log homes

Handcrafted log cabin plans

Although they are usually built as a retreat home, many log homes and log cabin plans finally ends up as a residence home. Contemporary log home plans are made for modern day living, which makes them great choose as a permanent home for your family. I think of log homes as a modern house with a rustic look.Log home always reminds me the American pioneers, building their log houses from the forests that were so common in the old days. The handcrafted log house plan sure gives me a romantic feeling of home.

The first log houses were of the handcrafted style, which means that they weren't changed after they had been peeled. Since they require intensive fieldwork, today they are less popular than the milled style – logs that were processed and have the same size and appearance, which makes them more suitable for home building.

The logs are a great shelter from the cold, since they lock the heat inside them, which make them so popular in cold areas world wide.

As you’ll see, there many types of log cabin plans, but of course they all share some features:

Fireplace with a chimney – I like it more when it’s made from brick, but some like the stone version.

• Very large kitchen and living rooms.
• Wide back porch. Actually, it’s the first think that comes to my mind when someone says log house.

Log home plans come in a range of sizes – from as little as 500 square feet to more than 2000. Since you’re interested in small home plans, you’ll be happy to find all this home plans that suits you.

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