Let me introduce you to the D. Family

So I thought I would share with you the excitement of one of our customers as they go though the process of the building of their log home......we met this couple in March of 2006 at a Home & Garden Show for the first time....then they came out to one of our Open House's we held at another couples home to see what our product looked like....then later that spring Eric & Ana came to Bend to do what we call a "home tour" where we put you in our car and take you around the area to see at least 3-5 different homes.

In this process over the next couple of years some things changed one of which was they started planning for one style of home and then at the prelim stage changed to another style not common for us ..... but I think worked out much better for them in the end....they are building a version of the Woodside I & II. The family picture was taken Sat. afternoon before we left them. They got the logs Thursday at 8 am so we all thought that they had gotten a lot done in the first 3 days they where done with coarse 5.

This is the drawing from the cover of their final plans.

Above what you are looking at is the basement floor and the red tubes are for Radiant floor heating....they will have this in basement and on main floor also.

Again in the basement you can see the I-joist for the sub floor above.


Here in May the sub floor was down and ready for logs....but had to work out some issues on the land so they could get a construction loan. So on the 25th of Sept.....it all started

Here is the one of the log trucks....there where 2 that day and then they will have a delivery later this month with the windows and a couple of local lumber deliveries for the package.

Day after delivery Cliff is showing Eric how to prepare the logs....the log is sitting on what we call a "log cutting deck" that is a temporary staging area to able to true up the logs pre-drill for lags, thrubolts and electrical. In the back ground you can see the "crew" Dylan (our son )and Noah from Creative Carpentry and the logs for the project.

So later in the day Ana decided she wanted to do her own log so she could show friends and family she did this also and by herself.

Then William wanted to say he helped so he is sitting a lag with dad's help....and Izabel is just being cute : )

By mid day Wed. ( Oct.1 st) the logs where done ! Eric took 2 weeks off work to be able to help the crew work on the house.

Time to start the second floor and Eric & Ana are doing a Post & Beam floor system so all the beams and posts are showing. Here they are putting up the first beam for the loft upstairs but what you are looking at is the gable end in the great room.

This is looking from Great room to back of the house where the kitchen / pantry and 2 bedrooms and a bath are.

The crew is building and standing up the loft walls. They are standing on top of the Tongue & Groove wood floor that is the finished flooring upstairs and when you are downstairs is the wood ceilings you will see in kitchen, dining room and bedrooms....and yes this second story is framed but will have log siding on the outside and inside will be T&G wood that matches the face of the log used and in this case it is a "D" log.

When the boom truck was there they used it to stand up the back gable wall that is in the Master bedroom area .

So last week ( Oct. 9th )the boom truck came in and they boomed in the log ridge beams.....

Now this week they will start making sure the rafters and all upstairs walls are in place to get the roof on....I'll keep you posted on and off on the progress of this home!