Research on Our Quaint House

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.