Darryl's log home

Underneath... Underneath the house, the slope was rocky and quite steep. We thought it would be an awesome patio area.... cool and shady with a beautiful view. There's a huge rock outcrop which lends itself to wild ideas of a water feature or lush lillys. We evened out the slope to two flat terraced areas. The top one to hold the water tanks and the bottom one, the patio area.                                                                                Top area for water tanks,                                                            Patio area for relaxing.                 ...

While we waited for our second load of logs to arrive, Darryl started on the flooring. He  put down temporary builder's shutter board over the floor trusses. This makes it much safer and easier to work on.   We also cleared the area under the house, and leveled it out. The guys built a retaining wall between the balcony pillars and then we filled it in with stones which grow on our property like weeds. Finally, our next load of logs were loaded up on the truck and deposited on our site! Then building went forward at a vicious speed! The walls went up......  Four layers ..                                                 Five layers!. .....    Robin suggested cutting an initial small door at the place where the actual door will one day be.... to save them all from clambering ove...