OUR PROCESS

DESIGN

Designing and planning your new log home is an exciting time! This is the most essential part of any log home project. For many of our clients, this is the first time they have designed and or built their own home. Our goal is to make the designing process as fun and stress-free as possible for our clients. This is because planning the design is key to keeping any project moving forward on schedule and within budget.

Whether you choose one of our many <a href=”/floor-plans”>floor plans</a> or have a set of plans of your own, we are here to assist you in making sure you get exactly what you want. If you have an idea but do not see a design in our available plans, we can take your ideas, pictures, and or sketches and create a custom design home that takes into consideration all your wants and needs.

Our team of professional and experienced designers will sit with you one on one to discuss what your dream home will look like. In addition, we are available to help you modify any plan you have selected for the home you have dreamed about!

Please contact us or stop by and tour our beautiful showhome! We look forward to working with you and making your dreams of having a log home come true.

PRELIMINARY PLAN PROCESS

Designing and planning your new log home is an exciting time! This is the most essential part of any log home project. For many of our clients, this is the first time they have designed and or built their own home. Our goal is to make the designing process as fun and stress-free as possible for our clients. This is because planning the design is key to keeping any project moving forward on schedule and within budget.

Whether you choose one of our many <a href=”/floor-plans”>floor plans</a> or have a set of plans of your own, we are here to assist you in making sure you get exactly what you want. If you have an idea but do not see a design in our available plans, we can take your ideas, pictures, and or sketches and create a custom design home that takes into consideration all your wants and needs.

Our team of professional and experienced designers will sit with you one on one to discuss what your dream home will look like. In addition, we are available to help you modify any plan you have selected for the home you have dreamed about!

Please contact us or stop by and tour our beautiful showhome! We look forward to working with you and making your dreams of having a log home come true.

FINAL DRAWINGS

After receiving your approval of the Redlining of the Preliminary Drawings and have signed off on all the changes that the design team has made, we are now ready to move to last phase in the design process – Final Full Construction Plan Set. We will now take your redlined drawings and produce your final plans for you and your contractor. The Final Full Construction Plan Set will include everything that you will need to get your project into construction. We will supply you with three copies of the construction set, with more copies available on request.

Your Final Full Construction plan set will include…

  • Foundation Plans
  • Floor Plans
  • Wall Elevations
  • First Floor Framing Plans
  • Second Floor Framing Plan
  • Roof Framing Plans
  • Elevations of each side of home
  • Detailed Section Plans and Connection Details
  • Basic Electrical Plan (to local code)

Programmed Log Package

In addition to your full construction plans, once you sign a contract to have us produce your Log package, you will receive a second set of plans that will identify every single log that is part of your project. Each log that comes out of our mill for your home will be tagged with an identifying number/letter that corresponds to a location on the plans called Stack Sheets, giving you the exact location of each log in the log structure that makes up your home. This will make it easy to see where any log will be positioned in your new log home.

ENGINEERING

Building codes vary from state to state, sometimes county to county within a state, and some projects will require structural engineering for building approval. While we do not offer engineering in house, we work with several different engineering firms to provide our customers with their services if needed. We can provide you with a fee schedule for your project at your request.

Milled Log Homes

Let us use our Long Log Advantage to create your Custom Manufactured Milled Log Home or Log Cabin!
Using our Long Log Advantage technology, we are able to manufacture full length logs for your walls and gables.
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Timber Frame Homes

Timber Frame construction, whether Old-World style or the newly popular steel joinery, adds a natural element and character that differs from log construction.
Timber Frame homes offer the ability to have open floor plans, amazing trusses in entryways, great rooms and throughout the structure.
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Hand Crafted Log Homes

Custom Log Homes, our Award Winning Hand Craft Division, is staffed by the finest artisans that the Bitterroot Valley has to offer.
Using our Long Log Advantage technology, we are able to manufacture full length logs for your walls and gables.
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