Getting Started

To get started, you’ll want to become creative, then organized!  We can help you do both.

For inspiration, we recommend you look at magazines and web sites that show homes, rooms and decorative details that appeal to your sense of style. Select those pictures and pages for your own idea notebook or folder. And make a wish list of the big ideas and fine finishing details you envision for your dream home.

For even more inspiration, you can look at our sample floor plans. But don’t stop there!  Use our sample plans to inspire your own.  Feel free to sketch out your ideal floor plan—even a design on a napkin will do. Talk with our design team, or work with your own designer or architect to come up with the perfect plan.  If your log home can be engineered, Caribou Creek can build it.

Once you take possession of your land, you will want to consider how to “site” your home—that is, how to locate and orient the structure in order to take advantage of light, landscape and views. Site photos and a topographic map are tools that help us advise on how to situate your home for premium location.

Of course, you will want to establish a building budget. And finally, you will want to identify your move-in date, a target date upon which all of your timelines will be built.

With your footwork completed, here is what you can expect from the typical work-flow timeline of a Caribou Creek Log Home project:

• Establish approximate estimate.
• Complete design questionnaire.
• Complete sales agreement.
• Finalize plans.
• Make delivery reservation.
• Confirm contract and specifications.
• Begin construction.
• Complete delivery.
• Make final acknowledgements.

For general guidelines on log package pricing, please click here.