9,200 sq-ft log home, plus older guest house behind
For Sale: $2,999,000
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For Sale: $2,999,000
I have a well worn and dog eared copy of a neat little book entitled “How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin, by W. Ben Hunt (Collier Books)..
I used it to build a 28’x16’ one room vacation cabin in Texas 30+ years ago..added a 10x16’ kitchen two years later ten a 16x20 bedroom two years after that.
I had a great crew of friends who early on camped in their own tents, and worked their butts off..
A fellow asked me a few years after the project was complete “ Just how much you have in this thing?..
I thought for a minute and replied “ About $20,000 in materials and $30,00 in beer and brisket”..
That was a pretty accurate assessment according to my wife...
/johnny
Nice post. Thanks.
I live in a neighborhood in WI where reconstructed antique log homes sit side by side new Georgian colonials that sell in the $2M range. Within a mile around me there are reconstructed Scandinavian and German log homes, original 1840s log homes (English) with siding over the logs so you can’t tell they are log homes until you go in the attic, new log homes, and lots and lots of McMansions happily co-existing in the same neighborhood.
On my corner someone has just poured several hundred thou into reconstructing a 1929 brick schoolhouse. It’s gorgeous! I never would have imagined it. They are getting ready to move in soon, and I’m going to bake something to take to the homeowner just for another peek inside.
I thought that old schoolhouse was a lost cause (it had suffered a bad remodel previously and was on a terrible corner with bad ingress/egress). This new owner gutted the structure, regraded the lot, added a garage where none was before and duplicated the design and the roofline of the building — including matching the brick. She invited me in, and I can’t tell you how different the place looked inside with beautiful, sunny vistas out the windows.
The new grading makes the lot and the new garage accessible in the winter which is severe here.
The Frontier Culture Museum is a great place to visit. We’ve been there 3 times over the years and it never fails to be a source of ideas and inspiration for me. Go in either the spring, fall or early winter and you’ll think you are taking a walk down a lane in the “old country”.