Build A Log Home with Laura

While searching for floor plans for our log home, I ran across a magazine that referred to non-luxury log homes and houses (>3,000 square feet) as cabins.

Our log home will not be a cabin (at least not in my mind) even though it is certainly smaller than the magazine's criteria.

In fact, unless you have more than 3 children, in-laws living with you, more money than you need, like to clean a large home (or pay someone else to clean it) or have no concerns for 'green' or sustainable living, one might wonder why any of us would need more than 3,000 square feet in our log home.

Sure it's nice to have, but these bigger houses are more to keep clean, more to heat, more expensive to build, and eventually, as families continue to decrease in size, harder to sell 5-10 years down the road.

I personally don't see my new home as being a "cabin" - since it will be our family home, year round.

The home will have a partially finished, high and dry basement, 2 large bedrooms, and 2 full bathrooms. My office will be in the basement - the window and doors overlooking the horses running in the fields. The log cabin home will be constructed for all weather and temperatures, truly year-round living.

On the other hand, it does sound a less intimidating to say we're building a log cabin ourselves. Rather than thinking/knowing that we are building a full blown, custom-designed, log home.