Log Cabin Room Additions

Log home addition.

Log cabin room additions. When your cabin starts to look a bit more dated than delightful or when friends and family are packed in like sardines on weekend visits you may begin thinking about renovating or adding on. Custom log home addition eatonville approx. New walls may lose from 1 inch to several inches in height during their first years. If your solid log home is more than three or four years old chances are most of the settlement has already taken place.

We decided to build a dining room onto our house. Oct 4 2017 explore rebecca leah lowe s board our log home sunroom followed by 310 people on pinterest. See more ideas about home house with porch sunroom. We would have to see photo s and original plans if you have.

With options as varied and customizable as a new construction there are. The new glass box like room is anchored to the much older house using matching stone veneer on the outside of the addition see the introduction image above with flagstone steps. Our architect thought i was a little nuts to keep the old cabin and that it would have been a lot easier to start from scratch leslie admits. The challenge with a log home is that traditional construction doesn t work.

Often there is a tipping point where an owner wants to put on an addition says architect travis kinney of gulfshore design in maine. Log home additions are a great way to take the existing structure you love and breathe new life into it. Log home additions timber frame. Homes log cabins remodeling additions.

Just about any log home can be added onto. Adding dormer certainly can be done with structural modifications. Putting a new addition on a log house. However adding a solid log addition introduces the possibility of settlement there.

The costs for adding on to a log home vary on location style of logs and cost of labor in your area. The typical cost in southern oregon start at about 150 per square foot. Fortunately we found a local builder who had experience. The new space is equipped with a folding glass wall system that opens for a full 10 foot by 20 foot aperture to the exterior.

See more ideas about house design dream house my dream home. Log homes addition. Soon not only did we need room for spouses and more growing kids we needed space to feed all these people. Modern log home addition ryan thewes architect nashville tennessee.

Leslie and michael bacon play scrabble at a midcentury pine game table in the triple height great room addition. Log home addition.