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"Roy
Road" home for Michigan (USA). Note huge log underpurlins
and log ridge. |
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"Roy
Road" home for Michigan, back side showing verandah
with log posts. Upstairs are log dormers that provide extra room
in 2 bedrooms. The plywood is covering the area that will get
windows when the home is finished. |
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Log
framed octagon roof system for gazebo for New York customer.
This is an elegant (and expensive) display of the highest level
of log crafting skill. |
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Douglas
fir house we built for New York State. |
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"Strib" A log house for Minnesota. Also has a log roof system
(not shown here) and a log covered entry which can be seen on
the left corner of the home shell.
This is what the houses look like before we scribe them, and
then take them apart of cut them out.
Strib is a full-scribe (not chinked)
log home.
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"Raincliff"
Lawson cypress home for New York customer--this is when it was
in our NZ yard. This house is being reassembled in June 2004
and is being videotaped for showing on a US cable TV programme. |
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A
"mountain" of huge logs towers over log being notched
in our Geraldine yard. |
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Mark
and Pam Hollows Douglas fir home being assembled in Te Anau with
a mobile hydraulic crane. Most homes are assembled in 2 to 3
days, and require a crew of about 5 men, with a large hydraulic
crane. Smaller houses can be set in less time, and with a smaller
crane. Very large houses will take more time than this to assemble
on your foundation. |
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Mark
and Pam Hollows home in Te Anau.
Log home living
at its best! |
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Inside view of lounge at Mark and Pam Hollows home in Te Anau. |
"Chicago" Douglas fir
home in our Geraldine construction yard. Chicago corner detail
on right.
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Lawson
home in Mid-Canterbury. Another log end (flyway) style--a double
curve. These are larger than our typical log diameters -- these
logs average almost 400mm in diameter. The biggest logs are larger
than 650mm. |
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Lawson
home for Mid-Canterbury under construction in our Geraldine Yard |
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Lawson
home in Mid-Canterbury.Heavy Lawson timbers for roof and verndah.
Log common rafter roof system--a beautiful, and not common, roof
system that has a heavy timber ridge and log rafters. |
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Lawson
garage in our Geraldine construction yard. We stack the log home
shell, then scribe the entire shell, take it apart and then cut
all notches and grooves at one time. This is a patented new system
of building log homes. |
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Lawson home in Mid-Canterbury.
Note the forked tree post (standing vertically ust to the right
of the man and crane in this photo)--that holds up the ridge
timber. We like to use special natural shapes as feature logs.
Again, you can see that large
homes, and large logs, require quite a large crane to assemble
the building. Some of these logs weigh nearly 2 tonnes each.
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Douglas
for home that went to Pennsylvania, USA. This is stacked up and
being scribed, before being taken apart and cut out. |
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"Peel Forest Lodge"
Douglas
fir home in Peel Forest. Corner window detail that opens up the
corner to good indoor-outdoor flow--plenty of light and air.
The home is also available for rent for vacations and holidays. The website is www.peelforestlodge.com and you'll find a lot of photos of this wonderful home. |
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"Peel Forest Lodge" Douglas fir home in Peel Forest. Corner window
detail from exterior. |