Kento
09-16-2013, 03:03 PM
Two weeks ago, my wife and I attended the LHBA class in Las Vegas. Since then, we've purchased an incredible package of stock plans, scratched the surface of the wisdom and experience available through the members forum, read many threads on the progress and challenges of members actively building their homes, volunteered our labor to help members, received invitations to help on one home and visit another, and, as of this weekend, visited a LHBA home under construction and helped with chinking the walls.
I want to thank LHBA member dazedandconfused for the chance to lend him a hand this weekend. For anyone who doubts whether they can do this, he is living proof that you can build your own log home without prior construction experience. He poured his foundation in March and, Lord willing, is well on his way to having his first Christmas in his log home.
Apparently it's not uncommon for curious people to stop by his log home-in-progess and this day was no exception. While we were chinking the interior walls, one such couple pulled up to get a closer look. They had driven by before and finally stopped to satisfy their curiosity. Brimming with a million questions, they stated with admiration how this home didn't look like all the other log homes they had seen in the area.
I knew what they meant. I've seen many milled log homes in our research and grew to like them but wished it was possible (affordable) to build with the big logs in the handcrafted homes. My research thankfully led me to the LHBA website and months of reading threads and finding blogs and photobucket sites that proved you could build with those big logs and not spend the rest of your life paying for it.
Now this was my first chance to see a LHBA home in person and I was not to be disappointed. Like a kid in a candy store, I was finally able to see and feel one of these homes I had meticulously studied in countless photos. The logs were massive, natural, and beautiful. Ridge pole supports soared to the cathedral ceiling. The green metal roof handsomely complemented the stained log exterior and gray chinking. It is truly a unique work of craftsmanship and quite literally has become the talk of the town.
If you're just discovering this site and wondering if it's the real deal, just keep reading. Check out the student homes, find the blogs and websites showing how ordinary people are building their log homes. LHBA may not be for everyone but it is what it claims to be.
Oh, do I think the class is worth it? Yes!
http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/ad31/kento2013/FirstTwoWeeks_zpsb5461925.jpg
Kento
P.S. I think dazedandconfused will have to change his name to LogHomeBuilderExtraordinaire when he's done :)
I want to thank LHBA member dazedandconfused for the chance to lend him a hand this weekend. For anyone who doubts whether they can do this, he is living proof that you can build your own log home without prior construction experience. He poured his foundation in March and, Lord willing, is well on his way to having his first Christmas in his log home.
Apparently it's not uncommon for curious people to stop by his log home-in-progess and this day was no exception. While we were chinking the interior walls, one such couple pulled up to get a closer look. They had driven by before and finally stopped to satisfy their curiosity. Brimming with a million questions, they stated with admiration how this home didn't look like all the other log homes they had seen in the area.
I knew what they meant. I've seen many milled log homes in our research and grew to like them but wished it was possible (affordable) to build with the big logs in the handcrafted homes. My research thankfully led me to the LHBA website and months of reading threads and finding blogs and photobucket sites that proved you could build with those big logs and not spend the rest of your life paying for it.
Now this was my first chance to see a LHBA home in person and I was not to be disappointed. Like a kid in a candy store, I was finally able to see and feel one of these homes I had meticulously studied in countless photos. The logs were massive, natural, and beautiful. Ridge pole supports soared to the cathedral ceiling. The green metal roof handsomely complemented the stained log exterior and gray chinking. It is truly a unique work of craftsmanship and quite literally has become the talk of the town.
If you're just discovering this site and wondering if it's the real deal, just keep reading. Check out the student homes, find the blogs and websites showing how ordinary people are building their log homes. LHBA may not be for everyone but it is what it claims to be.
Oh, do I think the class is worth it? Yes!
http://i919.photobucket.com/albums/ad31/kento2013/FirstTwoWeeks_zpsb5461925.jpg
Kento
P.S. I think dazedandconfused will have to change his name to LogHomeBuilderExtraordinaire when he's done :)