Logs 'n Dogs
Finishing Touches
"Yes, I'm sure I want that cast iron tub UPSTAIRS."
While building the shell was challenging and fun, the special things we did to finish off our house really made it uniquely ours.
Exterior Finish
Left alone, logs will weather to a silvery gray color. Since we had used mostly lodgepole pine, which is not known for its rot-resistance qualities, we coated our logs on the outside with a semi-transparent oil-based stain.
We painted our window and door trim with a contrasting solid color stain to match the roof.
Painting the window trim.
Interior Finish
We coated the inside face of our perimeter logs with linseed oil, into which we had mixed a little bit of pigmented oil-based stain, to give the logs a honey color.
Interior walls were constructed of standard 2x4’s with drywall. We photographed all plumbing and wiring in the inside walls before covering them with sheet rock in case we needed to find a pipe or wire at some future date.
Throughout the project, we had numerous ideas of special things we wanted to have for the house. In the end, time and money narrowed our options, but we still found ways to incorporate some of our list.
Concrete countertops for the kitchen. We poured them outside so we could grind down the surface to expose the "rainbow rock" inside. Getting it in the house afterward was another matter...
Spiral stairs to the loft.
Et voila.