Old Fashioned Lakehouse Log Cabin Kit - A Great Open Floor Plan

Introduction to the Lakehouse Cabin

The Lakehouse cabin building is a well-appointed floor plan with 720 square feet of space that meets every need for great log cabin living. The cabin building has one story, with two bedrooms and one bathroom. ELog Homes are the most complete, energy efficient and competitively priced log house packages on the market today. They are the highest quality cabin building kits, combining precision milling with stylish and unique handcrafted log house accents. They use Eastern White Pine for their log walls and log siding. In their opinion, Eastern White Pine is the best species for log walls because of its moderate checking, superb workability, solid knots, superior stability, high-quality insulation value and affordability. Their log homes cost anywhere between $120 to $150 per square foot. However, there are many ways that you can save on those costs.

Choosing Your Log House Budget

You've decided to build a cabin building or log house design, a place for you and your family to enjoy some quality time together throughout the year. The cabin building or the log house design that you build will depend a lot on the log house budget that you have. Log house designs and cabin buildings come in a variety of shapes, sizes and designs. You might have the budget to build a luxury log house plan or the budget for a small cabin building; either way, you can make it work for you. Building a log house that is easy on your budget starts well before you break ground. You can save a lot of money in the cabin building design phase by following simple tips.

Designing an Affordable Cabin

Building a wood cabin that's easy on your budget starts well before you start building. When you are designing a cabin building that will be easy on the budget you want to plan to minimize things such as corners and bump-outs in the wood cabin design. Instead, you want to go with a rectangular log house floor plan to save money. More corners in the cabin building require more workmanship to create the notches, and you will also have more wasted building materials. You want to stick with a four-corner log house to trim the work that is necessary to build the log walls while maximizing the logs used so that the cabin building will be quicker and less expensive for you.

Selecting Cost-Effective Features

You also want to choose standard-size windows and doors, but make sure not to scrimp on quality. Costs can rise quickly when you select doors and windows in unique shapes, and colors. The types of windows will also vary in price. Casement windows will often cost more than double-hung windows, but using a high-quality double-hung window is more cost effective in the long run than using a cheaper, low-quality style of a casement window. You also want to select your cabin building site carefully. Where you will decide to build your wood cabin can have a huge impact on your budget. To save money on your wood cabin, build close to a road and established utilities.