Eagle Landing

The covered log entryway warmly welcomes you into Eagle Landing.  The inviting open floor plan with a total of 1,712 square feet on the main floor, allows one to move seamlessly through the home, while enjoying the beautiful lake view. This handcrafted log home is perfectly planned to age in place, from the landscape to the layout of their home. Cozy nights are ahead in the great room with its fireplace and furniture placement. The spacious master bedroom suite has a large walk in closet, full bathroom, plus patio doors to the deck to enjoy morning coffee with the tranquil sight and sounds of the birds and lake. Interior log walls separate the bedroom wings from the greatroom. The second bedroom on the main floor shares the full bathroom with guests, separated by pocket doors, and has the french doors providing the spectacular like the masterbedroom suite. The washer / dryer are on the mainfloor. The beautiful stairway leads up to the open loft. The roof system has a 12′ x 12′ pitch, which provides lots of head room, and opens up the whole home and provides spaciousness. The 24′ x 14′ mechanical room is in the basement that has 80″ tall head space. The rest of the basement has crawl space of 48″ – providing a lot of storage area. The homeowner’s are looking forward to lakelife year round and enjoying their log home. Construction began October 29, 2020.  Reassembled March 1, 2021.

1-16-21 The Ridgpole and purlins are cut and ready to go.
1-19-21 The final course of logs are set and ready to be scribed.
1-15-21 Cutting pitch cuts on the roof logs
Interior view of Kitchen from the Greatroom.
Cutting the pitch cuts by hand on the roof logs.
1-14-21
Flats will be made on the top of log for the loft floor, while the bottom of the log will be scibed into the tie log.
Gary is sanding the log ends of the arches
The loft floor joist logs are being set into the correct place.
1-14-21 Loft floor joists and the two longer logs are extended over the entryway.
1-8-21
1-8-20 Arches are being cut out on the log ends onthe exterior of the log home.
Cutting the arch by hand with a chain saw.
After arches are cut.
Gary is sanding down knots.
1-4-21
Chiseling out the final notch with a chisel and mallet.
Cleaning the house!
12-28-20
12-31-20 These logs are ready to be set on top of the log home. The lateral cuts (Swedish Cope) are cut out and the notches.
Gary is grinding the notches down with the power grinder.
12-31-20
Snapping lines
12-21-20 First half of 7th course is ready to be scribed and cut.
12-28-20
12-28-20
The loader is used at times to tamp the top log down.
12-21-20
The log is being lined up to center with the other logs that create the interior log wall.
12-18-20
12-11-20 SEcond half of 6th course is set and ready to be scribed.
12-112-20
11-30-20 First course of 6th course
11-23-20
11-20-20
This area is the kitchen and great room.
11-20-20 First half of 5th course is set up on the log shell.
Jon selects each log for the home. The log is then moved from the bunk over to the log shell.
Each log is place onto the home to be scribed.
Heavy Equipment operator!
11-19-20
Gary is cutting a piece of log prior to the scribe being made.
The rough notch is cut out with a chain saw.
11-16-20 First half of 4th course is being worked on.
11-13-20
Jason is marking the log with a scribe.
Each log is lined up physically and visually to ensure that it will be level, so that the "character" of each log is in the best place in the log home.
11-13-20 The staff work together to when pounding out the lateral scribes.
11-12-20 Second have of third course.
The top log is set up to be scribed to the log below it.
Interior log wall
11-6-20 Jason is about to cut out the rough notch for the log to his left.
11-6-20 The rough notch has been cut out by a chain saw, now Gary is carving the final notch with the chisel to ensure a tight fit.
12-21-20 The openings are covered to stp the wind blowing into the home while working on the interior of the log home.
It takes a log of precision to cut out the rough notch, there is not much room for error.
The logs on this home are large, This cut is on the bottom of the log to fit tightly into the notch below it.
This is the door way of the master bedroom suite leading into the great room.
11-6-20
The second half of the second course.
The homeowner's are at the construction yard, walking in their log home for the first time.
Jon and the homeowner's.
11-5-20 Early morning.
11-2-20 The crew is getting the first course down.
It is important to make sure that the first course fits perfectly together.
11-2-20 The first course of logs are completed.
11-2-20
10-30-20 Jon is taking measurements of the first course to go pick the logs that will be used for the second course of logs.
First logs are set - this cut if for a door way.
10-29-20 First course of logs are cut and ready to be set.
We had an early freeze, so getting the foundation set up right away is important!
10-19-20 The foundation is set up on log "plugs". A laser is used to square the foundtion, and to ensure it is level.