Not having to live a walls width away from other people and being able to park my truck in a garage are two things I've been looking forward to for so long. We have owned a condo before, but it is too similar to apartment living.

My folks made offers to my brother and I to purchase their home, but we both declined. I can understand how you feel about that place not feeling quite right. There are some beautiful log homes in this neighborhood as well, but they are just a bit too rustic for me for day to day living. I do plan to purchase some remote land and build a log cabin for a getaway some day.

 

Thats funny...
I am thinking about putting a small 3 room cabin on a lake that I like to go play on. It's not far from a tourist town that we visit once or twice a year for weekend vacations. It's about a 3 hour drive from here we ussually rent a condo or a resort cabin when we go. For our own we are thinking about an all open floor plan cabin, only walls would be for the bath room with shower, and a master bedroom. Bed couch for kids, minimal furniture, so quest could roll thier sleeping bag or air matresses out and crash. "Very primitive"

 

We are going for a very open design as well but we are adding a basement. That's where most of our guests will go, especially the inlaws.

I plan to look at some land up a few different rivers for a cabin. I'll be going pretty small and cozy with it since I'll have to boat in all the supplies. First things first though, gotta get this house built.

 

just remember one thing about log houses...

they need to be resealed every few years
and its no fun

...zap!

 

Yea I'm not even going to spend that kind of money to have a basement excavated... It'll probably have a cinder block foundation. It will be as cheap as I can get away with.

Zap that is one concern I have about building a lodge style log home. The mainatnence + size =
I dont always do well with heights so I dont know how much it would cost to have somebody come clean and seal the upper 3/4th of it ever so often.

 

We had thought about going with cedar siding, but decided it was too labor intensive, so we are going with Certainteed vinyl siding in cypress color. It's a neutral "pea green" color, with white trim. We saw it at a contractors parade of homes and really liked it.

 

There are several in a little subdivision down by a different lake "much busier lake, if you dont have a 40' boat you wont survive on" just 30 mins away from me like that. They look nice!!!