A Charming Mountain Retreat with Views of The Blue Ridge Mountains

Charming Blue Ridge Cabin Overview

This Blue Ridge, Georgia wood cabin has perfect views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The three bedrooms, three bathroom 2,300 square foot log house recently sold for $369,000. You'll want to take a look inside this beautifully finished log cabin building as it has everything that you would imagine in a dream cabin of your own. The charming mountain log home has southern rustic decor and is less than 5 miles to downtown Blue Ridge. The cabin building has an open floor plan with a kitchen, breakfast island, formal dining, and living all in one room, making it great for entertaining. The fun continues outside, right off of the living room to the screened in hot tub porch with a wood burning fireplace. If it's too cold for you on the outside porch, you can head downstairs to the movie room, with billiards, a wet bar and an outdoor patio and swing. There are one bedroom and one bath on each level for added privacy. This is the perfect wood cabin vacation home to spend time with family and friends.

Planning Your Dream Wood Cabin

If a wood cabin or log house is something you've always dreamed, there are several ways you can go about achieving this. To start, you will need to plan out the log house details to include a budget, wood cabin site and cabin building design. Whether you choose to build the wood cabin yourself, buy a cabin building kit or hire contractors will depend on several factors. Building a wood cabin yourself will be one of the biggest projects you will take on, but is sure also to be one of the most gratifying once the cabin building is complete.

Selecting Logs for Your Cabin

Once you have your wood cabin site, you'll need to select your logs and transport the logs to your cabin building site. The type of logs that you use will depend upon what is available locally, your personal preferences and your log house budget. Many people choose the wood that they can get cheap and local to save on transportation. This is a good idea; you can talk to local loggers, wood mills, and clearing companies and foresters to find out what tree species are plentiful in your area, and choose the log species that suits your log house design.

Choosing the Right Tree Species

Each tree species will have pros and cons in regards to its strength, insulation value, and rot resistance so you'll want to remember to compare those points when choosing your tree species for your cabin building. If you want to save a little bit of money and be kind to the environment, you can also consider cabin building with standing dead trees. Standing dead trees make great cabin building logs, and there is very little commercial demand for it, so this type of wood is often free or very inexpensive. Cabin building with standing dead timber will save you plenty of money, save the trees from being wasted, and save a living tree from being chopped down for your wood cabin.