The Koenig Family Log Blog

Had Clyde Owens from “Pacific Log Homes” (Link to his site here on Blog) out the past two days to bust out the main part of our interior staining with me.(Interior Logs and Ceilings) Two long hard days with both of us running sprayers and back-brushing our own work we knocked er’ out! Thanks Again Clyde!! Wanted to get all of our main interior stained now rather than tape off and cover all of our finish items like granite, finished cabinets, etc. later down the road. All of our interior walls will be finished with pine board and batt (No sheet rock here on our place)… I’ll pre-stain it on the ground and then put it up.

All of our Interior Framing is done now too other than the small interior gable end wall where HVAC Heat Echange Unit is. :-)

View of our Dining Room’s logs and ceiling all stained… We used “Perma-Chink’s” Light Natural for our interior stain color and finished of with “Perma-Chink’s” Satin finish and sealer.

View of Kitchen Ceiling’s 4″ X 10″ rafters and 2″X 8″ T&G Pine all stained.

View from Kitchen looking towards Guest Bedroom and Laundry Room.

View from Kitchen towards Pantry, under stairs, and Living Room / Great Room.

View looking at Living Room / Great Room from Kitchen. (Walking Ya’ around house here now… Stay with me)

View back towards Kitchen and Dining Room from Living Room / Great Room.

Great Room Ceiling looking up and East from front door.

Looking up and towards the West and Master Bedroom from Great Room’s front front door.

Same view of Upstairs, taken at a different angle from Great Room.

View from upstairs looking back down towards Great Room.

View from upstairs landing looking into our daughter Anjelika’s bedroom.

View looking into Master Bedroom from top stair landing.

… Got that ball rolling and its all down hill from here… We can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!! :-) 

We now have all of our HVAC (Forced air heating and Air Conditioning) and Plumbing going in now…. Getting a little held up by our plumbers, but everything else is moving right along towards the completion of our Log Home! Wahoooo!!!

Good friend Tom has designed and is in the process of installing all of our HVAC for us. Thank You again Tom!

HVAC Duct running through upstairs flooring. On top of our exposed from below,  4 X 10 second floor joists covered with 2 X 8 T&G Pine, we ran 2X6’s on edge so we had room to insulate our floors for noise and run all of our Plumbing, HVAC Ducts and Electrical wiring. 

Our HVAC Heat Exchange Unit goes above our Master Bathroom on the 2nd floor and all the Ducts run down from there. The actual unit is suspended from the ceiling so we dont ever hear it while taking a bath.

HVAC Ducts running down through Stud bays from above Master Bathrroom.

2 X 6 2nd floor joisting on top of 2X8 T&G showing HVAC Duct Run all insulated with 2″ foam board insulation for sound barrier…. Duct work for this run started in Pic.

Here’s a pic of our plumbing vent and drain pipes going in.

Our Plumbing finally going in!

 Should be finished up with Rough Plumbing and HVAC and started on our Elecrical by the end of this coming weekend.

 Really wish I had some more pics to update ya here with, but I don’t. Have pretty much the whole month off to work on the completion of our log home here and have been going to town on it…. Not many pics to show because its all pretty much been pick-up framing work and buffing down the interior logs for staining prep.

 Cabinets have all been taken off to my cabinet guy to get stained and faced and have doors put on but before they were taken off to the shop I built these really nice seating area cabinets from our hearth that wrapped around the whole corner and included a built in entertainment center. These cabinets were built girthy enough to support the Montana Ledge Rock we’ll be using on our Wood Stove hearth and will wrap around the whole room and gon into our window sills.

Here’s a pic of the wood stove hearth I built and a huge mantel piece that we basically cut a pie out of a 4′ diameter Douglas Fir log. Framed wall area will be sheathed with “Wonder Board” and then covered in River Rock… same with base of hearth.

Pics just dont do the size of this mantel justice… but trust me… It’s girthy!! (Insert Tim the Tool Man Taylor grunt here) Mantel was attached to framed wall using 3 16″ long Galvonized lag bolts through a 4 X 12 hdr. nailed into framed wall. Strong enough to hold me standing on it.

Front view of Mantel You can also see the dif colors of stain we were testing out behind the framed wall before deciding on the color we are going with. I guess you can kinda’ get an idea of the mantel size here if you compare it to the 12 - 16″ diameter logs in the wall behind it.