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Tag Archive for ‘Log Construction’

Off the Grid Honka Log Cabin Ready for Permit in Park County, Colorado

This is one of our latest Honka projects slated for building permit approval in Park County, Colorado. Near Fairplay, this cabin will be a seasonal home for our clients, the Wisecups. Because of its higher altitude location, the cabin was designed for a very high snow load factor of 121 pounds per square foot (psf). Front [...]

Kershenstein Honka Log Home in Evergreen Colorado Near Completion

EVstudio has completed plans for numerous Honka log homes and one, here in Evergreen, is nearly complete. The Kershenstein residence boasts the quintessential Honka look while also being a truly custom home. It was important to the client that the home feature energy efficient aspects including radiant floor heat, passive solar capabilities from the orientation [...]

Renderings for Latest Honka Log Home

We are currently designing a Honka Log home for a site in Angel Fire, New Mexico for a client in Bloomington, Illinois. The home is under 2,200 square feet and has 4 bedrooms and 2-1/2 baths. Connecting the living space to the outdoor space was an important programmatic requirement as well as creating multiple living [...]

Hidden Wilderness Hand Hewn Log Walls Preconstructed in Bergen Park

This morning I stopped by the preconstruction site where the log walls for the Hidden Wilderness project are being housed, custom milled, hand hewn and put together before they are delivered to the actual construction site near Idaho Springs. As coincidence would have it, the builder Mark Claudin, negotiated to preconstruct the cabin on the rear parking lot [...]

10 Things to Know About Log Homes

We’ve done a fairly large number of log home designs in the past and I thought it might not be a bad idea to use the blog as a primer for folks who might be interested in building a log home of their own. Below is my top 10 list of things to know about [...]

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