Log Cabin Plan – Cardboard Planning
July 22, 2010
This is my log cabin cardboard miniature version of my future log cabin that will be built in Alaska. I’m wanting to build a vertical log cabin (stockade style cabin).
The log home will be 12 feet by 12 feet by 16 feet to the top of the roof. The living room is only 5 feet high and the bedroom will be about 3 feet high. So basically, the log cabin will have 3 levels.
If you have any suggestions about my tiny log cabin idea, please leave a comment. Our tiny home in Alaska will be awesome.
If you’ve build a log cabin before, I’d love to pick your brain 
Thanks again!
John
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AND YOUR GOIN TO …
AND YOUR GOIN TO BUILD THIS
What do you think …
What do you think your cost is going to be on this
holy crap thats a …
holy crap thats a great idea!!!
i really like the coziness of this! im keeping it in mind for when i build my own place. it wont be exactly like this, but i could definitely use the living-room-under-bed idea. i would then suggest that you make the second floor more of a shelf-type loft than a whole floor. ive been in a barn type house where the second floor was only half the area of the house, it was much much nicer to be able to see up there, and vice versa. but overall, very comfy design!
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3. Foundation:Your …
3. Foundation:Your vapor barrier needs to be on the warm side of the insulation in your foundation. Inside, not outside. The moist, warm air will migrate through the insualation and be trapped against the plastic causing all kinds of problems. The moist air needs to have away out Also, you will spill, leak or have doggy accidents, do you want that draining down into your insulation? I would foget the vertical posts if you have no experience. Beams shrink big time. Build horizontal, logs settle.
.2, Make the foot …
.2, Make the foot print larger, open up the rooms and drop the 5ft ceiling/sitting area idea. Winters are long and dark, you dont want to sit in a box for 8 months of the year. A single story, larger cabin will be simpler to make and safer and probably cheaper with less head aches. No ladders to climb, no lifting heavy beams up 18ft. No falls. Every aspect of building will be simplied. Heat, water, utilities are are easyier to install. My current cabin is 20×40 and so roomy and easy to care for.
As some one that …
As some one that has lived in alaska since 1982, built several cabins and seen the good and the bad. This would be fun design if it was a guest cbain or a play cabin for the kids, but I see several fundemental problems with your design. 1, Your going to roast in the winter with your bedroom/loft idea. In an area this small in order to stay warm down stairs when its -20 or colder, the stove is going to being going all the time. Hot air rises. It well be 70 down stairs and 85 upstairs.
Where in Alaska? …
Where in Alaska? Why not go with 10′ logs for the walls and have 7′ or so for the livingroom?