Great homes are created by details.  We take the time to design homes to be finished efficiently and easily.  We start with the highest quality logs and timber, select the right log or timber to fit within your structure and have stringent log and timber joinery and clean-up standards.  All joinery is hand finished by draw-knives, slicks and chisels, we plane knots and flat surfaces of logs interfacing with framing.

The directors of our company have over 30 years experience managing large commercial and residential construction projects.  As well, both are second generation builders, bringing the knowledge of two lifetimes of log and commercial construction. We offer an organized professional approach to building your home or structure, providing clear design objectives, budgets and schedules.  We follow through your project ensuring you are provided with our highest quality.  After our work is complete we provide framing and finishing details and assistance where required.

Yes, we have a small collection log home plans, log post and beam plans and timber frame plans.  All of these plans are available for download on our design page.  However we also enjoy new challenges and custom designs for individuals beyond our log and timber frame home plans.

 

Yes, we typically use or our in-house log or timber designer to design your home.  However, we can recommend two additional excellent design firms that also specialize in log and timber design.  We also work with two engineering firms depending on where your home is located. 

It is best to start with a collection of ideas, a rough size of structure you would like and a rough construction budget before starting with your design.  Our partner company has built several custom homes of all types we offer and can provide some assistance with your construction budget. 

We offer a broad range of products for a broad range of customers.  We are pleased to have supplied individual homeowners as well as residential developers, with our fine log and timber products.

We can assist you with small projects, including log and timber accessories (including timber angle brackets, accents, and stairs), carports and outbuildings.

On a medium sized scope, we build log cabins, timber frame cabins, timber trusses, log and timber componentry for great rooms, additions or any other feature area of your home.

On a large scale, we can provide you with a complete log or timber frame home package.  We offer services that can bring your project from concept to completion.  We have a catalogue of log and timber frame home plans.  These plans can serve as a starting point for your project, and can be modifed to suit your needs.

On a commercial scale..

There are many factors to consider when we price your home that we do not have a standard square foot or board foot cost.  Some factors that influence the cost of your home, will be the type of structure, species of wood, complexity, size and amount of log or timber in the structure.  That being said we can provide pricing of our stock plans at any time and a quotation for custom homes within a matter of days.  As a general rule allow between $30-65/sf for a scribe fit home, $20-45/sf for a log post and beam and roughly $30-50/sf for a timber frame home.

  

No, however, we provide a budget for delivery and providing one supervisor to assist your family, friends or contractor to set-up at your location.  If your project is within 500 km of our fabrication yard in Kimberley, BC we can provide full set-up services. 

 

Scribe fit - fully finished in our yard, all joinery completed, insulated, all openings cut, sanded and keyed, post and beam elements planed and slot cut, supply of screw jacks and thru-bolts, mortise and drill for electrical, spray with wood conditioner/anti-fungicide and load home for shipment.

Post and Beam - shop & re-assembly drawings, seasoned logs, all joinery cut, hand tool clean-up of all visible surfaces, plane all flat surfaces, slot cut posts and beams for continuation of building envelope,  test-fit joinery, spray with wood conditioner/anti-fungicide and load home for shipment

Timber Frame - shop & re-assembly drawings, seasoned timbers, all joinery cut to our stringent standards, chamfer all timbers, sand cut ends, pre-stain or oil, package and load frame for shipment.

We can provide in our package supply of all dimension lumber, finishing paneling, stairs, handrails, deck post and beams, windows, doors and cabinets from our suppliers upon request.

We prefer to use Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir for log homes, however, Lodgepole Pine, Spruce and Larch are available.  We use Douglas Fir, Larch and Lodgepole Pine for our timber frame homes. 

Due to the size of logs we use (14-16" average diameter) kiln drying is not economical or practical.  Our logs are usually harvested in the winter months when trees have a dormant cycle and the moisture content is lowest and allowed to season for over the course of one year.  As well, much of our Douglas Fir and Lodgepole Pine logs are obtained dead standing. 

For scribe fit homes, we primarily use a fully insulated diamond shaped saddle notch at our corner intersections. Variations of this notch are used to lock bottom and top log rounds together as well for floor beams and joists. For log post and beam structures we use various traditional timber to timber joints (mortise and tenon, dovetail, etc.) as well as blind metal connections when required for seismic or other lateral type loading. For our timber frame structures we use traditional hand-cut timber to timber joints, deferring to concealed metal connections when exceeding limits of timber joinery.