Design Your Log Home: Tips to keep you out of trouble
MECHANICS: open-plan offices are the essence of modern log cabin. They feel a bigger house, and keep the cook from feeling isolated. But if you have a second floor, you must consider how you can get the plumbing, electricaland lines (both forward and backward) that the upper rooms. I'm not with the outer walls of it, so you have enough internal walls to create fits all mechanical. Each object is likely to take their space, the 2×4s. Although the use of radiant floor heating, you need lines for air conditioning. There are some systems, high pressure pipelines with a diameter much smaller than conventional cables to be used, so there are no other options, ifThey are pressed for space. But the best solution is to think about the future. If you try to create a wall full of inner-log (or no use to anyone), one sacrifices the possibility of obtaining more lines upwards.
PLUMBING: The wisest floor plans are those who try to take baths together (or back-to-back or one above the other) and the shortest running in the health sector. This can not always do the test, but the location of the bathroom upstairs, the line-up with an interiorWall down. This allows the installer does not need to queue at all.
Wardrobes: I would imagine that the log homes are generally well known, short of storage space. So that is my home. First and foremost, it would be a terrible waste of a closet against an outside wall of the register. Why hide your beautiful logs? Why we try to keep the area up to a minimum, it seems almost a crime to waste precious space in the toilet. However, there is more than one reasonintegrates them. Not only that we seem to collect more material we get older, but certainly by law in various states, the government decides whether to have a bedroom or office. This could affect the resale (or refinance) your home. Here's a suggestion: Put two cabinets side-by-side on the wall between two rooms that can not be very big, but does not change the shape of the rooms. To see if you are a closet near your front door.
WINDOWS: Because I'm sure you've already read manySometimes you can not have too many windows in a log cabin. The wood absorbs light like a sponge. If you have a big white wall, not the addition of a window near the summit only provide more light, adds character. Some people add window on each side of a shed dormer. In my case, move the roof line to increase the size of the window in my room, because it is required by code to be 6 'ability to exit. Each room upstairs, you have your Windows must be big enough to climbin case of fire. It's also not fall for many direct-set of Windows, the amount of airflow around the top. In my house has a porch (a small hinged window) to the bottom of the card in my window, skylight. This air can be helped, but even so the room can be stifling. A ceiling fan helps, but in the end I need to create a skylight in a single project.
KITCHEN VENT: One of the most difficult decisions we have made, how to get the hood vent. If youI will not be provided to a wall, so you have an interesting conundrum. The exhaust pipe between the floor beams to the outside world? Will run until you need to add another fan? I gave up and went to the outside wall of my stove, but we had to cut a hole in the protocols for air. Horror! How can you hide? My client has built a little cedar box around the hole, and we were lucky enough to lower a curtain so you can notlook from all directions. But this ugly vent is on the front of the house, and I thought that I could to the kitchen to the back of the house moved.
Crawl Space vs. Basement: There are many reasons a cavity rather than a basement – none of them particularly pleasant. Apart from the obvious disadvantages of a crawl space, there are some things we never thought of. I have in my blissful ignorance, not thinking about the ugly exterior. OfOf course I knew that we had a meter and a panel, but did not know where they were thinking. What I did not know was that the code that could do to him that the panel in the cavity. Since we have no garage, the closet has been installed in one of our rooms in the wall of the register. Is not it beautiful? Another disadvantage of the cavity are a quick heating of water if necessary when it comes, and you must purchase a horizontal mounting oven. Since our water is of poor quality, wehad to install a purification system. The 54 "unit must be mounted vertically, and our cavity is 48" tall. We had to make a hole in the concrete floor to make room for the device.
Gutters: Yes, you want to get the water away from your cabin at any cost. There are challenges that we have a house in Alpine style, with a vaulted ceiling. However, taken to come to a deep V in the corners to create a slide magnificent rain. This is not necessarily wonderful when landfillon your tires! Because the generous overhang that comes with a log home before the end of the V-projects away from walls and makes no logical corner, hanging from a rain too. In one corner, I contented myself with an old rain barrel, and the deck hand, we had the water for the spread of the pergola we built the house, and ran a gutter along the edge of the pergola.
Toilets: You must have at least a 1 "base and protects like a 2" ledge of the logs.This overhang should be considered when designing the roof line. If you have overlapping angles, make sure there are the creation of an event or snow water. There are times when the overhang may be found in another corner of the roof. You can also get a part of the roof a short distance.
Gateway to: Can be one of the most annoying bugs can do and start too late. Think about what the door is open to all, the nature and manner. Isis another door? If two doors bang together? If you are in a confined space, it's all so good? When we installed our bathroom vanity, no swing of the door until the plumbing is already connected. The door of the green light for the vanity of an inch together, could have been worse. You can swing from the opposite direction to compensate (the first was already suspended, or joints) will be on the wrong side. Or, in the design phase, you can use a narrow door. Or place asmall vanity.
ELECTRICAL: Electrical and plumbing layout will not be out of your log cabin design drawings. The manufacturer is not, where is your sales opportunities. Once the plans are to confirm the time comes for you to sit down with the electrician and mark exactly where you want the sockets, switches and lights. Local code determines the minimum distance between outlets, but all will tell you, you can put more than you need, finallyprobably use it anyway. Even if you do not need, put the cable and telephone in every room, there's a lot easier and less expensive to do forward. Do not forget, you can never have too many candles in a log cabin. Plan for the tap water – especially those of the ceiling. They have no right to add later.
Dead Space: If you create a large log cabin, you had so much space, it is not really important. But what counts for most of the rest of us, every inch.There are several approaches that can maximize your space. First you really think the room? Some space-saving design space is divided so that all open in no time. I prefer none. Remember also that each port creates Dead Space. Where can your floor plan to be created so that the door wardrobe in one place (already dead, for example), other door or a hall, a little open space '. Is your attic has a purpose or isOnly an open passageway from one room to another? Can a piece of furniture in it? If not, maybe it would have served as an angle, and your "I want to do more open to" be a bit 'less.
I hope I have helped a little 'to do so. I learned many of these tips the hard way, and I'm sure there are many more I have not yet joined. Finally, a custom home, a great learning experience.
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