Our Quaint House

Cabin Delivery

Sat, 23 May 2026 12:10:21 -0400

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
Tounge & Groove panneling for great room ceiling
Roof rafters
Roof sheeting
Roof shingles
Windows
Exterior doors
2nd floor tounge & groove ceiling + floor
Exterior stain for logs

It’s all there. Guess how many full length tractor trailers that takes? In our case it was 4.

Excavator Delivery

Mon, 18 May 2026 13:37:06 -0400

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 here with enough time to unload and review the plot plan and locations of everything. We walked the property and noted all the undergrowth that happened in the 2 years since they had last seen it.

Erosion Control

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:35:06 -0400

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 fencing being installed

On paper erosion control sounds like a no brainer, let’s stop the soil, debris, and water from contiuning down to neighboring properties effecting buildings. Let’s be sure no extra soil makes it to the street to clog up storm drains. Let’s keep everything clean and as if nothing was happening.

Southland

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:47:02 -0400

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 process, I didn’t know what I was doing, but I’m a computer guy, so I played around with webapps.

Delays

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:15:46 -0400

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 started that we’d be in our house in 9 months max. Any guesses as to how long we’ve been at this? [tiny](The sidebar shows current countup)

Home Style Choice

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:35:06 -0400

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 log home on the otherhand satisfies the desire to live in a unique house, while also being easy to describe, visualise, build, and approve. We’ve been calling it our tree house. I like it.

The Perfect Lot

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:09:06 -0400

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 family
reasonable price

Honestly, #2 is pretty easy to get because we aren’t about to homeschool our children, so anywhere we looked would be on a road.

Building Our House

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:01:01 -0400

Our House!

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to build my own house. Too many collective days, weeks, and years spent fixing things across my family’s assortment of houses, wondering what we’ll find behind a wall, beneath the floors. How are these wires run, why isn’t there a plug here. Just why?

For almost as long as I can remember, I have wanted to live on as much land as I can afford, deep in the woods, in the mountains. I’ve always loved the outdoors, nature, and privacy (which is irnoic given I’m documenting this entire process on the internet).