The Log Home Floor Plan Blog

PrecisionCraft Log Homes is celebrating twenty years in the log home industry today. Since its founding on May 21, 1990, PrecisionCraft Log & Timber Homes has worked diligently to realize thousands of log home dreams by maintaining the highest level of customer satisfaction, delivering creative design, product quality and construction solutions. In doing so, PrecisionCraft redefined what a custom mountain home is, challenging other companies within the industry to think outside the standard “kit” framework by providing a Total Log Homes Solution, instead of just a log or timber package.

“Over the last twenty years, PrecisionCraft has remained strong, even with the many changes in the economic climate,” said Jim Young, President of PrecisionCraft Log Homes & Timber Frame. “Our success is directly attributable to our unified focus on the customer. From offering the industry’s most innovative and complete home building solution to housing a knowledgeable, cutting-edge and service-focused team, PrecisionCraft continues to set the bar in the log and timber home industry.”

PrecisionCraft’s custom log homes can be found all over the United States, in Canada and abroad. From a rustic log cabin home in Pennsylvania to an impressive timber frame home in Colorado, PrecisionCraft’s experience extends beyond high quality products and award-winning designs; these beautiful homes can be found across the United States amid majestic ridge-lines, lively lakes, and rolling foothills.  PrecisionCraft’s clients greatly value the company’s depth and range of experience. Learn more about PrecisionCraft’s experience designing and building log homes below:

Custom Homes Video: View this log home video highlighting eight of PrecisionCraft’s unique homes. From a spacious, timber frame home in California to a modern log home retreat amid West Virginia’s rolling foothills, this video gives you the opportunity to explore why PrecisionCraft is an award-winning log home company. Watch other log home videos in PrecisionCraft’s Log Homes Video Center.

Custom Homes Map: This map highlights PrecisionCraft’s homes across the United States. Every red dot is a custom PrecisionCraft custom home!

Log Homes by State: Explore PrecisionCraft’s experience statewide. Although every state page is not yet available, we are working to showcase our log home experience in your area! These state pages were just added this week:

• Building Log Homes in New Jersey: With rolling foothills, splendid mountain views and glacier carved lakes, New Jersey’s countryside is a natural attraction for second homes.
• Log & Timber Frame in Pennsylvania & New York: Explore the quiet countryside of Pennsylvania and New York for your mountain home retreat.

Also, get a glimpse of PrecisionCraft’s design, manufacturing and build experience in these great locations:

• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Idaho
• Maine
• Montana
• New Mexico
• North Carolina
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wyoming

View these state pages, Canada and more at: http://www.precisioncraft.com/regions.html.

A North Carolina couple falls in love with PrecisionCraft’s award-winning Crested Butte floor plan. Modified to fit their land and architectural style, this handcrafted log home meets their every need. A true second home retreat.

Crested Butte Floor Plan | Modified with Handcrafted Logs

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Custom Designed Handcrafted Log Home | North Carolina

Waterfront Log Home with Expansive Great Room Windows

Reminiscent of the old-style cabins of our American forefathers, this Appalachian style home features beaver tooth corners, long, covered porches, warm hued stone and rustic, metal roofing. Based on the Blue Ridge floor plan, this home is a stunning mountain home retreat in Colorado. Traveling to every client’s build site, PrecisionCraft’s professional stacking crew installs the log and timber structure on the foundation. From fabrication to installation, PrecisionCraft ensures top quality and excellent structural engineering value.

Blue Ridge Log Home Plan | A Custom Log Home Design by PrecisionCraft

Appalachian Log Home in Colorado | Luxury Living & Log Homes

A Mountain House Designed by PrecisionCraft Log Homes

For a limited time only, log home enthusiasts can explore the custom design process before they commit to building their log home! Mountain Architects, the log home industry’s most renowned architectural firm is giving their “clients-to-be” the opportunity to consult with an expert designer before making a commitment to build. Learn about the home design process and get a sneak peak at what your home will look like. For more information, call 800-729-1320 or visit Complimentary Design Consultation.

PrecisionCraft’s Wood River Log Home Plan features a unique combination of log and timber frame. This customized version takes shape at a beautiful build site in Alberta, Canada.

Rear View: Wood River Log Home Floor Plan Constructed in Alberta, Canada

Front View: Wood River Log Home Plan Built in Alberta, Canada

Great Room Features Breathtaking Timber Frame Trusses

With the close of the first month in 2009 just around the corner, Mountain Architects releases its final design in the Rustic Luxury Log Cabins & Plans series.  The Truckee log cabin plan is a unique log post and beam design with stone integrated throughout.  This single-level log cabin home, with just over 1,500 square feet of livable space, brings together rustic tradition with a touch of elegance.  Its layout is simple yet offers the perfect blend of warmth combined with attractive natural materials.

View the Rustic Luxury Truckee Log Cabin Home Plan

What’s next for the team at Mountain Architects?  As a sponsor of the 2009 GREEN LOG Homes & Lifestyle Awards (an awards program created to shine the spotlight on those companies that are working to provide green alternatives in the building industry), Mountain Architects now turns their attention to highlighting green design techniques. Stay tuned for an exciting kick off to a 3 month long endeavor focused on designing and building green, including examples of green homes designed and built over the last couple of years.

The Montclaire timber frame home plan receives the “Best 5 Plans” Award in Timber Home Living’s 3rd Annual Floor Plan contest. This award marks PrecisionCraft’s 12th design award in 2 years, making PrecisionCraft and its design firm the leader in log and timber home design.

Created by Mountain Architects, PrecisionCraft’s experienced team of timber frame home designers, the Montclaire floor plan is praised for its creative design in Timber Home Living’s April 2008 issue. Donna Peak – Timber Home Living’s Managing Editor writes:

“How can you not love a plan that takes so many outstanding modern amenities (four fireplaces, anyone?) and packages them with English manor-house style? From the exterior alcove, you enter the impressive foyer, which, with its gently arced staircase and adjacent formal library and dining room, is sure to make a genteel first impression. But move just beyond and a true 21st-century home unfolds before you. The spacious great room leads the way toward a kitchen layout that’s totally in tune with the times, boasting a cooktop island and ample bump-out pantry, not to mention a cozy breakfast nook. The nearby laundry/mudroom is perfectly placed to make unloading groceries from the three-car garage a breeze, plus it offers a family coat closet, leaving the guest closet to, well, the guests. The huge master bedroom and bath, with its private covered patio and hot tub, make this suite sumptuously sweet. Upstairs, a half level gives you the extra room you need without the fuss (or expense) of a full second story. And the L-shaped loft is large enough to be divided into specific zones for reading, shooting pool, whatever activities tickle your fancy. The only thing this plan is missing is you.”

Mountain Architects’ designers focus on the design of mountain style homes – full log homes, timber frame homes, hybrid log & timber homes, and homes constructed using conventional framing with log & timber accents. With a full palette of materials to work with, it is easy for Mountain Architects to design a home that meets each client’s unique aesthetic preference and budget.

PrecisionCraft.com features 70+ floor plans. Exploring this extensive timber & log home floor plan gallery is a great way for clients to generate ideas for their own unique homes. With Mountain Architects architectural expertise and specialization in green building, design options are unlimited. Also, visit PrecisionCraft.com to get more information on designing, manufacturing, and building timber frame homes. Or call 800.729.1320 to speak to a timber frame home consultant.

Who says it has to be all about log? Check out this new design by PrecisionCraft and Mountain Architects’ log home designers. The focus this month is on timber frame! The Clearwater is a modern timber frame floor plan that fits in with both new developments and rustic locations.

The unique look of the Clearwater timber frame plan integrates stone, glass, timber and siding. The floor plan is open and works well for entertaining, while the master suite is secluded and has private access to the patio area. The second floor bedroom has its own private balcony with an innovative clear railing system.

The Clearwater, as well as all standard floor plans found at PrecisionCraft’s log home floor plan gallery, can be designed to match the look and feel of any client. In addition, the Clearwater can be customized in size and layout. Standard floor plans such as the Clearwater are simply starting points for your own unique vision.

Adding timber frame elements to a log home design is a growing trend today. Visit PrecisionCraft’s Log Home Solution Center to learn more about this hot trend or to view 65+ log home and timber home plans.