Small Log Cabin KitsAn Eco-Friendly Way to Save MoneySmall log cabin kits can help make your dream of log home living come true sooner than you think. If you’ve spent any time looking at the glossy log cabin magazines you’ve seen the huge log homes that look more like lodges.
Maybe you can’t begin to afford something that size, or maybe you don’t want to face having to clean a cabin so big. Using small cabin plans you can build a small log home that you can afford. You may have strong feelings about our oversize homes and their negative impact on the over-burdened resources of our planet – you’ve come to realize that bigger isn’t always better and you’d rather put your money into quality rather than quantity. Small log cabin kits are one way to keep the size down and still enjoy a log cabin getaway in the mountains. A little log cabin is manageable and cozy and with the right cabin floor plan you can have a huge home in a not so large cabin.
Save Money for the ExtrasSquare foot size should not be a competition. The savings you realize from building a small log cabin kit can be invested back into your plan with upgrades on kitchen countertops, stone fireplaces, extra-large porches or hardwood flooring. For many people, a log cabin starts out as a second home for vacations and family holidays. They don’t need a huge space to store items used once or twice a year, or furniture or linens for different seasons.They cherish the time spent at the cabin as a simpler, less complicated time when it’s possible to focus more on the family or your partner without all the distractions of a large house. As you get older its less and less fun keeping up with all the maintenance required on a large log home with spring set-up, fall cleaning, painting and dusting. Over time many folks fall in love with the location and the freer lifestyle where they’ve built a small log home and eventually decide to retire there. It helps to plan in aging-in-place ideas and universal design. It’s also easier to make the transition if you’ve carefully designed your small log cabin kit with rooms serving a multi-purpose use, for example, an office converts to a guest room and meals are eaten outside on the porch or in a cozy kitchen nook rather than a formal dining room. Small Log Cabin Kits Use Smart DesignsSmall log cabin kits accommodate the changing realities of today’s market, where folks are getting away from building over-priced McMansions with all their extra work and un-used space. In a cleverly-designed small log cabin everything has a place and traffic patterns, smart storage ideas and multi-use areas are carefully planned and designed.Smart
log cabin home design
will allow you to have everything you need in a smaller footprint with a more efficient use of space. Cabin design ideas should be carefully considered so as to create an optimal and affordable cabin floor plan.
Build A Green Log Cabin
Small log cabin kits not only save money with the lower cost of the log package, it’s also cheaper to buy a smaller piece of land and your energy bills are less.
Solar power
in your log home becomes more practical and your carbon footprint is reduced.
Green building tips for log cabins suggest keeping the footprint small and building upwards rather than out. You can also utilize more outside space with large porches and outdoor rooms. Bring the outdoors in and move the indoors out with a transitional space that you can use for 3 seasons of the year. Small Cabin OutbuildingsSome small log cabin kits are designed for do-it-yourself construction of guest cabins, rental cabins, bunkhouses and storage buildings. These kits can be constructed very easily in a short time and help ease the storage load in your primary house or offer guests a unique and interesting space to stay.Small cabins can be a place to call your own; a quiet place for writing, playing music or working on your art. The coziness and warmth of all-wood cabins invite reflection and relaxation. Most of these small log home kits require only basic construction tools to assemble. You’ll need only common tools such as hammer, tape measure, builders’ level, chalk line, ladder and screw gun and no heavy equipment. Large cabins require specialized log home building tools such as beam and timber saws. Small Log Cabin PlansIf you’re looking for plans for small cabin kits for camp buildings, check out the Log Home Plans site, where they have Log Camp Cabin plans ranging from 138 square feet to 575 square feet.A great resource to have in your library is a book called “Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice” by Robbin Obomsawin. From the back cover: “Leaving behind a complex, hectic lifestyle and returning to a much simpler existence is the irrepressible dream of many.” Another good book is “The Log Home Plan Book” by Cindy Thiede. From the back cover: “30 Fabulous log home plans – the favorites of builders and designers, selected from across the United States.” Check out Panel Concepts: The Small Cottage Company in Michigan that offers panelized small cabins that you assemble yourself. These are perfect for hunting cabins, guest cabins or storage buildings and are very affordable.
Another excellent source for unfinished log cabin shells, pre-fab modular log cabins, panelized cottage kits and do-it-yourself cabin kits is Spirit Elements, based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Small log cabin kits are developing a strong niche in the larger world of log homes. For starter cabins, secondary log buildings or just an eco-friendly way to live in a log home, a little log cabin can fill the bill and save you money. Further Resources: Recommended Reading in our Virtual Library Are You Prepared for Your Log Cabin Kit? Log Cabin Design Tips Designing the Perfect Cabin Fireplace Save Money with a Hardwood Flooring Liquidator Can I Act as My Own General Contractor? Return from Small Log Cabin Kits page to Cabin Kits page Return from Small Log Cabin Kits page to Log Cabin Connection home
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