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Getting Started...Log Home Kit Pricing, Design and Budget

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  1. We quickly provide rough cost estimates for your log home design, both for our log home package materials and for the total cost to build, ie “TURNKEY COST”. Your budget is key, so you need to know what that is. Read this whole page to help you with some background help.

  2. We eagerly help you every step of the way, sharing pictures and experiences, and talking about options to save money or create changes...and why. We continually provide guidance through design, construction drawings to permitting and through construction.

  3. During the design process we provide cost estimates for each of your ideas to make sure they are in line with your goals.

  4. Provide line-item materials list showing the contents of our log home package for your design

  5. Fire-killed and naturally dead-standing logs are used, which reduces major settling issues which often result in others’ logs which have higher moisture content, and theirs are not high elevation, slow growth dry Lazarus Log Home logs from Montana...the best logs!

  6. Stunning hand-peeled large character posts showing their natural colors and contours on all our homes. Hand-planed Swedish coped, notched and trimmed wall logs showing the facets of the hand planer, reflecting the light and accentuating the beauty of the wall logs, as well as accepting the stain best. We glue each row with an expanding urethane foam, and lag bolt each row down to make the strongest log wall on the market, with less settling!

  7. We coordinate with your contractors to aid them with any questions they may have as well as send them pictures if needed of the specific area of interest. We have a 30 page full color construction guide with drawings, photos and how-to-build for the homeowner, or the seasoned contractor.

  8.  We are happy to show you our “model homes” in Dayton, MT, Whitefish, MT and McCall, ID.

  9. Lastly, we are always available for future questions throughout the build and beyond. Get started looking at log home plans!

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THE LOG HOME BUDGET - Whether you have cash or are financing, you need to know what you want to spend. This is called the “turn key budget”. Do not include land in this figure, but a budget should include all improvements needed on the lot, like well, septic, road, bringing power to the building site, the materials and labor of the home, etc. in that turn key estimated cost. If you are going to a bank or mortgage company,  you need to pre-qualify for a construction loan so you know where you are on the up-to amount you can borrow, or own the land outright and borrow against that for the down (equity type loan). Some banks don’t offer construction loans, some require a general contractor, etc. so usually you will be talking with a few banks until you find one who has the right product for your needs to build. We don’t want to try to sell you something that won’t fit in your budget. The budget is king. We want to help you design around a doable budget. If you have cash, we can help you ballpark at first, then you still decide what you want to spend. Click here for our information on Financing

YOUR OWN LOG HOME DESIGN - Your log home plans are classified and grouped by log home styles. So if you want it all on one floor…that is a ranch style log home (so click on “plans“, then on ranch style, and start there). Any log home can be on a basement. If you want a main floor with loft, it is a little less per square foot, and if mid size, it is a chalet log home design. If the log home is larger, with the main floor and a loft, it is typically a lodge style log home. If small, select a log cabin kit. If you want a loft and a basement (build the basement into a hill - daylight or walkout), just select the same model log home plan with a basement, or we can add one. For those that want a large custom log home, pick a lodge style or the custom log home design page to start, and we design your home for free on any of our models irrespective of size. We also do log home garages, log commercial buildings, log shops, log barns, and hybrid log/framed log homes. Click on the plans link above and go from there.

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