Choosing the best style of log home

[Jenny]

Me and my husband currently have 22 acers. 19 acers of it are alfalfa field. We have plenty of space to build and store mitirials. I would like to know the best style of home to build. We get up to 5 feet of snow durring winter and more depending on the year. We are wanting to build a 2000 to 2500 sq ft home. Is there a perticular style we should look for? Is there a gallory of log home photos that we could look at?
thanks
Jen

[hemlock77]

A lot of it will be personal prefference. Here is the student home galleries. http://www.loghomebuilders.org/image/tid/3 This should give you a few ideas to kick around.
Stu
http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u64/hemlock77/

[tanderson]

I think I'm becoming too addicted to this site. For example...

I'm watching CNN this morning regarding the Texas Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint story and they interviewed some of the mothers at the log cabin compound. There are charges of polygamy and child abuse, yadda yadda yadda... But I'm thinking? Check out that chinking! It's so uniform! This must be a kit home.
Then I hear something about 400 children being confiscated by the state. Now I HAVE to see the floor plan on this log home compound!

I couldn't get the killer view on this cabin compound, but the mothers said this community was like living in "HEAVEN". Did she mean the lifestyle or the log cabin? I'm not sure? The stairs looked awesome!

[greenthumb]

I don't watch TV so I've missed the log home eye candy in Texas, but having taken the class I recognize that you do have the bug pretty bad. Just wait until you start looking for logs- your head will just about twist off every time a log truck comes roaring by! LOL.

[Basil]

I cut my logs three winters ago, so I'm not looking for logs at all anymore and I still look at every stand of trees I pass for species, taper, straightness, etc. It won't go away even when you get to the stage I'm in now (painting drywall, installing flooring, finishing carpentry) and are about to move in.

[rreidnauer]

I cut my logs three winters ago, so I'm not looking for logs at all anymore and I still look at every stand of trees I pass for species, taper, straightness, etc. It won't go away even when you get to the stage I'm in now (painting drywall, installing flooring, finishing carpentry) and are about to move in.
'cuz there's always the NEXT home to be built!!! ;-)

But I suffer this same disease. I know of this one particular stand of (possibly doug fir?) trees (I'm terrible at species ID, but looks incredibly similar) that must have at least 200 low tapering, telephone pole straight trees with skinny little branches, that are just begging to be made into a log home. If I got the top down on the Miata, I always drive by slowly to get a good look. :-) I know it's a rather rare group for my part of the country, so they must have been planted there some time ago.

Anyhow, there's no known cure. Only option is to subdue symptoms with constant log home building!

[Basil]

I don't know about another full size log home, but I do have two more garages to build log style. I may build a horse barn in the same style just to match the house and make my wife smile but that would be an expensive barn!

[spiralsands]

But I suffer this same disease. I know of this one particular stand of (possibly doug fir?) trees (I'm terrible at species ID, but looks incredibly similar) that must have at least 200 low tapering, telephone pole straight trees with skinny little branches, that are just begging to be made into a log home. If I got the top down on the Miata, I always drive by slowly to get a good look. :-) I know it's a rather rare group for my part of the country, so they must have been planted there some time ago.

Anyhow, there's no known cure. Only option is to subdue symptoms with constant log home building!

I can identify. I've been giving the evil eyeball to even the gigantic historic oaks that are all over this area. While everyone else is oohing and awwing at their majestic beauty, I'm secretly imagining what gorgeous boards could be sawn from their ancient limbs....

Frances

[Kola]

wood cravings?? I seem to have a very rare disease similar to the other LHBAers.

I don't loggerneck tooooo much but I do have a peculiar craving to eat wood chips. Yes folks I eat woodchips. If I see a freshly felled tree my mouth waters and I have to pull over and pig out on delicious fresh wood chips. I stuff my cheeks full (chipmunk-style) and chew like a madman, laughing and grunting uncontrollably AND at the same time frothing from the mouth like a rabid raccon. The woodchip saliva runs down my face and onto my shirt as I bask in the smell of woodchips and freshly cut logs. Afterwards I sit down, clean myself off, sit on the treestump and fire up my pipe with a fine blend of tobacco. I kiss the stump goodnight and head back for home. A great day indeed.

Kola