Exceptional Log Home Award winner: Fred and Carol Renfroe

[Ellsworth]

We are pleased to announce that Fred and Carol Renfroe's stunning log home, in Oak Harbor Washington, has received the Association's Exceptional Log Home Award.

They did almost all the work on this home themselves, with the help of their children. According to Fred, his kids say that working on the family's log home was the "best time of their lives!" Now that's pretty cool ;)

The log home is around 6500 square feet with multiple stories. This is a very large home, in part because the home was intended to serve as a spiritual retreat where Fred could do ministry work. Fred was a Navy Chaplin, now retired, and he still performs premarital counseling and weddings on location (there are indoor and outdoor chapel areas).

There's also an unattached 2-story log garage, with a shop and apartment, as well as a small 12'x12' log "dog house." If you saw the size of his dog, you'd know why the dog house is so big!

Click on the picture below to see all the photos, enjoy.

http://www.loghomebuilders.org/log-home-fr-03_small.jpg (http://www.loghomebuilders.org/log-homes-25.htm)

[KeithMN]

Quaint little cottage... :shock: I couldn't imagine such square footage! Does it come with a few maids?!

It's absolutely phenomenal, what he's done! I like that he left his land untouched and brought his logs in instead. That's what I would want to do. You have to respect a man who wants to use his home to help others; using what they've been blesssed with to bless others.

Fantastic job, Fred and Carol!

[JeffandSara]

Awww, Ellsworth and Steve, another beauty!!! Great photo tour!

Kudos to Fred and Carol and their kids!!!

Sara :D

[dvb]

Beautiful home!! Lots of craftsmanship in the details.
From the outside it look like there is a couple of interior butt and pass corners. Did you get any photos of them? I am thinking of using a couple for our house and would like to see how they accented them.

[ribbonevt]

This house is very cool. I see that they used an outside RPSL in one of the photos. I do like the idea of doing this on my house, just for the extra room that it will provide. But I didn???t think of doing it until after the foundation pears were in. So it is after the fact. I can???t remember why they suggest not doing this in the class. Can anyone refresh my memory?

[Oneshot]

Great job Fred, Carol, and Kids. You can tell a lot of planning, labor & love went into your home.

[kyle]

Yippee more eye candy! WOW!

Ellsworth, I noticed that in the basement pics that the walls were logs. Curious how the basement is layed out, underground? or raised 1st floor type home? I assume since logs were used on the wall that it is not underground.



I see that they used an outside RPSL in one of the photos. I do like the idea of doing this on my house, just for the extra room that it will provide. But I didn???t think of doing it until after the foundation pears were in. So it is after the fact. I can???t remember why they suggest not doing this in the class. Can anyone refresh my memory?

So no smuck can come along and cut it in half!

[JeffandSara]

So no smuck can come along and cut it in half!


Amen, Kyle. Perhaps also because it's a more-important element in the total structure than wall logs (because it's doing its work by itself, not as part of a multi-log system, as the wall logs)? Seems like it's both a feature to treasure aesthetically and to protect from the elements.


Though, I do get Chris' point about it looking neat out there. :D


Sara :D

[rreidnauer]

Wow-e-wow, that's some place. With these gorgeous places just getting more and more so every time you announce them, I doubt that I've even be able to get honorable mention by the time I get my place built.

Congrats! She's a beauty!

[eustill]

Beautiful home you built. Deserving of the 2006 house

Bryan

[Jordan Laube]

Fred, Carol & Fam -
Thank you for providing inspiration...

Ellsworth, Steve, et al -
Thank you for orgainizing this site & doing what you do...

In Awe,
J-

[Cbear429]

WOW, that???s the kitchen we???ve dreamed of. I gave this idea to our architect. Great Job.

Cecil :D

[mbailey]

Congratulations Fred and Carol and family,

What a beautiful home. I hope my family can enjoy the process the way you all did. Excellent work and very motivating for us just coming along. Thanks Ellsworth for showing us Fred and Carol's beautiful home.

Blessings,

Mark

[TracyN]

Amazing! I was stunned to hear he built the 30x30 from start to finish in 3 months. I planned on taking 2 months off work just to get mine dried in! I would like to know his method for speed.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Tracy

[salinamatt]

Now I really feel like a slow poke. How did he do a 30x30 in 3 months?????
Its taken us a year and a half and ours still isn't liveable.

[tony_zizak]

Great home! Makes me want to drop my bow (hunting) and start working :roll: