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  1. Site picked, logs picked!

    by , 10-10-2011 at 12:59 PM (The Peterson families journey to building a log cabin!)
    Well, we have finally decided on a site to build our starter cabin. We already have the driveway in, so that helps. The starter cabin will just possibly be 12 by 16. We have the trees marked as well, which are actually decent size, bigger than we expected. This is why the starter cabin has gone up a bit in size. We won't know the actual size until after the trees are cut. For the starter we are just using the cedar trees on our property. For the actual house, we will be purchasing most likely ...
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  2. roof and floor

    Garage rafters up (still need to be levelled) and Pex in for radiant heat in teh cement floor. cement will be poured on Monday and then we focus on the garage roof. this weekend will work on cabin floor joists (so we can back-fill soon) and sanding garage wall logs before we powerwash and stain. got samples of High Sierra Applewood and Sansin Light honey and monteray red too. so will be testing stain this weekend as well.
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  3. working on this blog

    I have a few pictures to post and a few thoughts...
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  4. stone work

    Quote Originally Posted by panderson03 View Post
    beautiful stone work! I've been thinking about starting our stone work while we wait for our rafters to arrive... might just have to do that!

    did you harvest all that stone on your property? did it come conveniently in the same width or did you have to crack/break them to be in usable form?

    thanks for posting the pic's!!
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  5. practice log shed

    Quote Originally Posted by jrdavis View Post
    very nice stone work. thats going to be a very pretty shed....
    Might just have to turn it into a "guest house" some day.
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