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The Cameron Plan
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Dimensions: 54′ W x 34′ D
Levels: 2
Square Footage First Floor: 1,656
Square Footage Second Floor: 432
TOTAL Square Footage: 2,088
Bedrooms: 3+ Open Loft
Baths: 2
First Floor Laundry
Covered Porch     

The Cameron log home plan offers all of the living space on the first floor and a large open loft. A first floor laundry, and Master Suite complete with Walk-In-Closet and Master Bath make this home a popular choice. For a slighly smaller version of this home please view the Chinook. For a slighly larger version also consider the Callaghan or the Chinook HC.
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Cameron Front Elevation

Swedish Cope Log Homes

Lake Country Log Homes Turned Log Homes

Our Swedish Cope log homes feature heavy 10″ or 12″ diameter logs and are part of our handcrafted log home family. Swedish Cope Logs are at times referred to as ‘turned log homes’. (Read on to discover why…)  

What makes a Swedish Cope log home unique? Swedish Cope logs are round on the inside and outside. The top is also left round. A half moon shaped groove is cut into the log along the bottom. This concave groove provides overlapping one log to the next when the log wall is stacked and gives this log style it’s name, Swedish Cope. The log corners of a Swedish Cope home are full saddle notch. When the corner of the home is viewed, the end of each log is visible. The other common method is butt and pass corners where every other log end is exposed. Swedish Cope homes only stack with the full saddle notch corners.  

Our Swedish Cope logs  have a consistent diameter down the entire length of the log but they are not milled or manufactured. Each log is treated just like our handcrafted log homes, the only difference being that they are first placed in a lave to obtain the consistent diameter. Each log is hand selected. Then it is placed in a log lave. The lave turns the log round and round until it is a uniform diameter end to end. The most common diameters for out heavy Swedish Cope logs are 10″ and 12″ logs.  

After the logs are turned, then they are each hand peeled by the log craftsmen.  After the logs are hand peeled, then each one is individually chosen for placement in the wall. Each log is hand scribed with our Scandinavian full scribe method to fit to the log beneath it. The half moon shape carved in the bottom of each log is the “Swedish Cope”.  

A side note: Some log home companies fall short and only turn the log but do not hand peel it. This leaves extensive marks on the logs. These circular ridges around the logs is sometimes referred to as “chatter”. It makes the log components of a home look less than professional.  

Then slowly the log home is erected in the shadow of the two towering cranes. Logs are lifted, marked, lowered, cut, and replaced on the wall multiple times. This insures a perfect fit for each log. The corners of these homes can be done in the full saddle notch style, as listed above, or a diamond cut notching pattern. The diamond cut produces corner logs that are cut on the top and the bottom where as the saddle notch are cut on the lowers, not the uppers. The diamond cut results in walls that look intricately woven together.  

Log lengths for our Swedish Cope homes can reach up to 50′. Where ever there is an interior intersecting log wall, a corner is woven into the side. There are no butt joints in a handcraft home.  

Interior log walls is another integral feature of our homes. Why would interior walls be made from solid log? Because extra structural integrity is gained by these walls. Logs spans are different than those of standard construction homes. This being said, the increased integral strength of our Lake Country homes make them extremely beautiful and exceedingly strong.  

The roof system of Swedish Cope homes can either be round logs, square timbers, glulam beams, or standard trusses. Many homes utilize a combination of these styles. Most commonly round logs are used for the great room section of the home. Then over the bedrooms and garage areas standard trusses are incorporated. This helps limit the costs somewhat on the homes and also allows for things such as attic trusses over the garage to expand the living and storage spaces.  

All of the logs are recessed to recieve framing and finishing material. Ledge cuts and tuck cuts allow for quick installation of doors, windows, interior framing, etc.  

Also, all of the electric box holes and wire holes are pre cut and pre drilled at the mill. This allows for easy installation of wiring in all of the log walls.  

We utilize a through bolt system for the logs to insure straighness during settling. Handcrafted homes can shrink as much as several inches. But this is an innate characteristic of these homes and shrinkage is allowed for in the specialized construction drawings required for these homes.  

A 2×4 spleen is used in the door and window openings to limit shrinkage over these areas. This basically prevents walls from settling and then pushing on doors and windows and causing problems. The wood spleens remove any concerns.  

Lake Country Swedish Cope homes require an approximately 12 to 16 weeks from initial deposit until delivery of the home package, based on average sized home.  

Please feel free to explore our world of Swedish Cope homes below. If you have any questions, please feel free to call our office number at 406-388-3458 or email us through our ‘Contact Us’ page. Not sure what type of home is best for you? That’s why we are here. Answering questions is the best thing future log home owners can do. Sometimes people are afraid of sales pitches, high pressure salesmen, and being bothered continually. That is not the case when you contact us. Very rarely do we even contact one of our customers unless they contact us first. With 13 years in the log home building business we have lots of experience that we are happy to share with you. Our log homes sell themselves. When you see them personally person after person fall in love with them and feel they have a friend in us. We are here to help make your log home journey successful and memorable- in a great way!  

Building Log Dreams,
Mike and Sue Lemmon
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Lake Country Log Homes Turned Log

Turned Log Truss

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The Revelstoke Plan
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Dimensions: 73′ W x 50′6″ D
Levels: 3
Square Footage First floor: 2,395
Square Footage Second Floor: 447
Square Footage Basement Level: 2,258
TOTAL Square Footage: 5,100
Bedrooms: 5 + Open Loft
Baths: 3 1/2 

The Revelstoke Plan is shown here in our round Post and Beam home style. This huge home incorporates a large Foyer, huge Great Room, first floor Master Suite, first floor laundry, and Kitchen Dining area with walk in pantry and even a Screened Outdoor Kitchen. The walk out basement level is also offers four more bedrooms, Family rooms, and two more baths. Also included in this spacious home is the Open Loft. Please note, pictured below is examples of this home in the Post and Beam Style, and the second sketch portrays it in the Handcrafted Log Home style. Cowboy Log Builders LLC 

Revelstoke Front in Handcrafted Log

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The Syphon Creek Plan
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Dimensions: 64′ W x 45′ 11″ D
Levels: 2
Square Footage First Floor: 2,273
Square Footage Second Floor: 1,262
TOTAL Square Footage: 3,535
Garage Square Footage: 672
Bedrooms: 3 + Open Loft
Baths: 2 1/2 

The Syphon Creek Plan is complete with wide wrap around deck and porch, garage with breezeway, and prowl front. Shown here in the handcrafted log home, this  luxary log home plan is far from usual. Please click here for enlarged preliminary floor plans: LCLH Syphon Creek Design
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Syphon Creek Rear

Syphon Creek Right Elevation

Syphon Creek Left Elevation

First Floor

Second Floor

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The Chinook H.C. Plan
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Dimensions: 48′ W x 34′ D
Levels: 2
Square Footage First Floor: 1,376
Square Footage Second Floor: 1,820
TOTAL Square Footage: 1,820
Bedrooms: 2 + Open Loft
Baths: 1
Covered Porch, Foyer  

The Chinook H.C. Plan is shown here in our handcrafted log style. Complete with large Great Room, Foyer, and Open Dining and Kitchen area, the first floor is also open to above in the Great Room. A large Open Loft also adds to this floor plan. For a smaller version of this plan please see The Chinook Floor Plan and The Callaghan Floor Plan. Cowboy Log Builders LLC 

Chinook HC Front

Chinook HC Front

Chinook HC Rear

Chinook HC Right Elevation

Chinook HC Left Elevation

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The Eagles Pass
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Dimensions: 20′ W x 26′ D
Levels: 2
Square Footage First Floor: 520
Square Footage Second Floor: 271
TOTAL Square Footage: 791
Bedrooms: 1 + Open Loft
Baths: 1 

Our Eagles Pass log milled or manufactured log cabin kit, features a first floor bedroom, Open Loft, and Great Room. A covered porch could easily be added under the prowled roof line on the front. To view this home in the handcrafted log home style please view the Calico Plan, also listed in our log cabins under 1,000 square feet. For a current Price on the Eagles Pass log home, please CLICK HERE.
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Eagles Pass Front

Eagles Pass East Side

Eagles Pass Rear

 Post and Beam and Material Package (Douglas Fir):

$70-90/ sq. ft.

Heavy Timber Frame and Material Package (Douglas Fir):

$70-90/ sq. ft.

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Log Species: Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar

Package Inclusions:

POST AND BEAM WALLS with conventional framing between Posts and Beams:
Post and Beam Mortise and Tenon and Dovetail Joinery
Any required assembly hardware
All other log elements shown on drawings including posts, beams, floor joists, purlins, rafters, ridge beam, and log trusses
Log siding is also available

ROOF SYSTEM:
Handcrafted log roof system with rafters, purlins, log trusses, etc. Also manufactured trusses
Rafters or trusses, as per plans and code requirements
1/2″ roof sheathing, Western Red Cedar fascia, and 1×6 T&G Pine for ceilings and soffits
30# roofing felt, ridge and soffit vents, ice and water barrier
Asphalt fiberglass shingles, metal roofing, or Western Red Cedar Shakes (home owner’s choice)

SECOND FLOOR SYSTEM:
2x joists with ply wood sheathing
Timber joists with 2×6 Douglas Fir loft decking OR timber joists and sub-floor (2 x joists with 3/4″ sheathing)

GABLES:
2×6 framing as per design with 1/2″ sheathing and Tyvek house wrap and Gable Flashing
Handcrafted Log siding or wood siding optional

PORCH MATERIALS (as per design):
Posts, beams, roof system, 1×6 Pine T&G paneling for ceilings, decks, railing, and pressure treated floor framing

INTERIOR WALLS: 2×4 and 2×6 framing lumber (as per design)

WINDOWS:
Metal clad wood windows or vinly  with Low-E insulated glass, grills, screens, custom wood jambs, log wall door and window flashing, 2×6 bucks

EXTERIOR DOORS:
Pre-hung fiberglass entry doors, metal clad wood French doors, metal clad wood or vinyl sliding patio doors,
steel fire doors where required

EXTERIOR TRIM: 1×6 Pine trim for exterior doors and windows

DORMERS:
2×6 framing with sheathing
Handcrafted Log siding or wood siding optional

INTERIOR STAIRS AND RAILING:
Pre-assembled Douglas Fir Handcrafted Log or Timber stairs first floor to upper with timber landing, if required
Interior Railing- Western Red Cedar Handcrafted Log Railing

Delivery to job site is additional

Please allow approximately 12-16 weeks from initial deposit to delivery of your Handcrafted Post and Beam or Heavy Timber Frame package. (Based on average sized home).

COWBOY LOG BUILDERS LLC, AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES FOR LAKE COUNTRY LOG HOMES INC. 
MIKE AND SUE LEMMON ~ BELGRADE, MONTANA 59714 ~ 406-388-3458