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My uncle and aunt's home made Log Home living. It's the type of place I know a lot of people here can/would appreciate. Thought I'd share.

2 things

1. The pictures do NOT do this place justice.
2. The pictures are a mix of in-process and finished

My uncle's wood working prowess isn't really on display here but he did make a lot of the things here and just recently build a shop on the property that's fully outfitted. He even has CNC routers to create things but can go old school hand tools too.

On-line Article


He made the arched door on the right - goes to a wine/booze nook.



Kitchen

Wow! That's nice.

WOW, that's one awesome log home.

Beautiful! Hickory flooring?

I don't know on the floor.

What he's managed to do tho is create and executive level home that feels VERY comfortable and homey while you're there. I was up there to visit 2 weeks ago to visit and burn some steaks and it's just very comfortable...

Beautiful!

My dad and I ripped out the stuff in the basement for him, dishwasher and helped install the washer/dryer they mentioned in the article. Never realized the downstairs suite/master bedroom was 900 square.

My whole house is 1100....

Uber interior, how's the view?

Looks very comfortable,

Wow, that is stunning!

Decent. Lake averages 30 feet with pike and bass. Should be killer duck hunting too on the far shore. 5 homes on the lake and that's it. Gentleman's agreement no motors.

Opposite side of the lake - one person owns all the land with no homes on it.

Sounds like a very nice location, nothing wrong with that view!

Very nice, I looked at having a log home built about 20 years ago, my research revealed Western Red Cedar was the wood to have as insects don't like to eat it.

Noice!

That is incredible Teal, And your uncle choose one of the prettiest places in the US, Iron mountain area is nothing to sneeze at.

We're originally from the Bark River area - to the east of it just a very short way.

What's great is there's a ton of good places to eat up there with all the Italians.

Plus the whole Tom Izzo/Steve Mariucci deal...

I wouldn't get too cozy. A new administration could see wonderful possibilities for multi-level Section 8 housing units.

Dude!

That is a beautiful log home.

I have built 8 log houses down here in the southeast. Mine are with logs that are flat on the sides, using the dovetail notch. This was the type of house built by the pioneers in the Appalachian mountains.

The house in this story uses Scandanavian full length scribing. They use round logs. This log building style is more difficult than the dovetail notch style.
They lay the next log on top of the existing log, then they use a scriber to mark the contours of the bottom log onto the top log.

Then the top log is removed and set on the ground, and they cut those marks with a chainsaw.
The top log fits exactly onto the contours of the bottom log. No chinking is used. My cabins use chinking.

My cabins are beautiful but I have always admired the Scandanavian full length scribing technique. It was brought to Minnesota by Swedish immigrants and this is the style of log house usually built in Minnesota, Montana, and British Columbia.

I bought a scriber for $110, 20 years ago, and I always wanted to build a house in this style, but I never got around to it.

Beautiful log home!

Very nice. When we were looking in NW Montana and N Idaho 11 years ago a log home was the desire. After reading of the maintenance we went with Hardy planked exterior/sheetrock interior with accent logs and rough sawed accents. Looks great and we could not be happier with zero maintenance since purchased.