Our Quaint House

Massive Rocks Two giant rocks, one an accent, one a problem. New England is known for growing rocks. Stick you finger in the ground and you’ll hit a rock. This property must be old because the size of the rocks that grew here are massive. These boulders are responsible for breaking the pins on two different sized …

Clearing the Way Looking down the driveway from the house The majority of our driveway came pre-cut and pre-installed. Isn’t that nice of nature? However our septic field was in the way of the full approach, and so we had to curve the driveway to the north a bit, unfortunately through some light trees and decent sized …

Empty Lot, Where to go? Where is this log going to go? Now that the house area of the lot is mostly cleared, we need to identify where the corners of the house are going. Yes we have the septic field staked out, yes we have a survey, yes we have the dimensions of the house. But all of that falls apart once the lot is …

It’s bigger than you think One of 4 truck ready to be unloaded from our dirt road and up our dirt driveway One of the benefits we like about a log cabin kit is that everything needed to dry-in the house is delivered all at once. Logs for the walls Interior first floor joist Interior sub floor Interior partition walls …

Time to Dig After what was actually years of waiting, the excavator has shown up and began it’s work. This is where the fun begins. This is where things start moving and visions start to come. The stone at the front is too much for the excavator too! The drive down was marred with traffic and detors, but he made it …

AKA - Microplastics What’s that saying, the path to hell is paved with good intentions? That’s what I think of erosion control, especially on large, rural, wooded property. If you’re not familiar with erosion control, it’s the black woven plastic fencing you see around construction sites. One portion of the silt …

Southland Log Homes As mentioned earlier, we choose Southland Log Homes as our log home kit supplier. I have to say everything about working with them has been a breeze. In fact I originally set up an account on their website becuase it was the only way to access their design system (which is free). Being early in the …

Government, Weather, or Bank All work comes with delays be it needing a midnight snack while your writing your final report for class tomorrow, to a snowstorm grounding your flight home. Building a house has more moving parts that just about anything else on individual will ever do. We had crazy aspirations when we …

Log Home I’ve had many different ideas over time as to the style of house I wanted to build. From geodesic dome, to earthship, I always wanted something unique. Unfortunately those two are hard to find builders to build, and even harder to get past local town building departments, (not to mention buy in from family!) A …

Keep looking… I’m not a city guy, nor is my wife. We each grew up in the suburbs on average sized lots in average sized houses. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just not what we want. We searched for property that fit our criteria: At least 5 acres access to electric & high speed internet within 90 minutes of our …