(floor plan) scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level; contrasts with elevation
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan, or floorplan, is a diagram, usually to scale, showing the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure.
(Floor planning) Floorplanning is the act of designing of a floorplan, which is a kind of bird's-eye view of a structure.
A scale diagram of the arrangement of rooms in one story of a building
A log home(or log house) is technically the same thing as a log cabin, a house typically made from logs that have not been milled into conventional lumber.
loose: without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"
grant freedom to; free from confinement
Without cost or payment
With the sheets eased
able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"
The Log Home Book
The foremost authority on rustic design and furnishings, Ralph Kylloe chose for this book his most inspiring images from 20 years of photographing mountain retreats across America. Richly layered images of living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms and recreation rooms are a springboard for cabin planning and vacation dreaming.
Ralph Kylloe, leading authority on rustic furniture, is the author of 20 previous books, including Cabins, Rustic Artistry for the Home, Cabin in the Woods, Cabins and Camp, Rustic Traditions, and The Rustic Home.
The foremost authority on rustic design and furnishings, Ralph Kylloe chose for this book his most inspiring images from 20 years of photographing mountain retreats across America. Richly layered images of living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms and recreation rooms are a springboard for cabin planning and vacation dreaming.
Ralph Kylloe, leading authority on rustic furniture, is the author of 20 previous books, including Cabins, Rustic Artistry for the Home, Cabin in the Woods, Cabins and Camp, Rustic Traditions, and The Rustic Home.
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Log Home Restoration May 2009
This log home had its existing finish removed by ozzying (sanding) it off. We the washed the building and applied a borate tratment to the bare wood surface. After the logs were dry we applied two coats of Sashco Capture (Sequoia) log home finish. In between coats we applied caulking in any checks 1/4" or larger. We used Conceal caulking (Santa Fe Trail) for this project. We then applied the final clear coat to protect the caulking and logs from harmful UV damage.
Log Home Refinishing June 2011
This cedar log home was refinished with Perma-Chink porducts. The old finish was sunburned and needed to be sanded down to good wood. Once sanded, washed, and borated we applied the first coat of Perma-Chink Ultra Lifeline II - Sequoia. We then applied Energy Seal - Cedar caulking in between all the log joints and around the doors and windows and roof rake.
free log home floor plans
How to build handcrafted, scribe-fit log home walls from the master teacher and builder Robert W. Chambers. Chainsaw and hand-tool techniques are demonstrated. Animations are used to teach log building fundamentals. Saddle notches and long-grooves (laterals) are scribed and cut. State of the art techniques for doing it yourself -- Building your own log home. These DVDs are not about milled, factory-made, manufactured log kits. Instead, Chambers teaches the handcrafted methods using naturally-shaped logs that are fitted tightly to each other without gaps and without chinking. Chambers shows how to use a scriber to trace the contours of one log onto the other. Robert W. Chambers has been building log homes since 1983, teaching log home construction since 1985, and is author of the best-selling book -- the Log Construction Manual, and the maker of the ChambersScriber tool -- both his book and scriber are for sale at Amazon.