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I have spent the last three years off and on working on designing a house for us to build. Us being, my husband Andy kids, Tucker and Gracie, grampa, Newfie the dog, Seeley and Coffee the cats, couple of fish and stray relatives depending on which given day we're talking about.
This home has evolved over the coarse of time through trial and error, changing likes and dislikes, life itself getting in the way and you name it, its happened.
I kept making it to big or too elaborate to afford. I kept not wanting a million dollar home, even if I could , I wouldn't want that, it seems obscene to me to spend that kind of money on a house.So over the course of time I relaxed my idea of what I had to have, left out corners and made it smaller, as I wrapped my mind around the new ideas they became my own and I Incorporated them into the home.
Then My husband started wondering about size, he said " I don't know what two thousand square feet feels like, I don't know what four thousand square feet feels like." So I called a real estate woman and asked her to show us some houses in that size. We set up a couple days of looking with her and went out and looked. What we found surprised us both. We looked at all kinds of house's but one of the houses we looked at was a log home.
Now up until that point we had been absolutely against log homes, nothing about them appealed to us, and the maintenance of one gave us nightmares. The home we looked at had been built with out any thought of flow or floor plan at all, it was strange. But on the way home a couple of days later I kept going over it all in my mind and finally I asked Andy "Of all those houses which place did you like the best" Andy never one to put himself on the spot said "Gee honey I don't know which one did you like the best?" I told him I liked the log home the best, I said it felt like walking into home after being gone a long time. Andy was immediately excited and said " I know, I know I felt exactly the same way, It was home!" And so began one of the most satisfying times of my life, the journey of our log home.