The Don and Phyllis Ovens Home

We unloaded the Ovens log home package late December 2004 and began log construction in early January. Tony Schoffner did the foundation work. The house has a cross plan with 4 inside and four outside log corners. We asked Turman Log Homes if they could make us some 10x10 corner posts and beams for the inside corners and for beams overhead in the living room. This is the first of those corner posts installed.
I think Michelle is saying its time to warm up. This is in the bedroom bumpout
This is a shot back towards the kitchen/dining room from the master bedroom end.
We then set the scissor trusses in the kitchen and master bedroom wings.
and framed up the interior walls, braced the logs and built the loft floor.
The main roof was then framed, and the wings overframed back onto it.
The roof being sheathed, this shot is a pretty good cutaway of the roof framing.
Setting the 20 foot long 10x10 beams on top of the log walls was a problem. We finally rolled them into the house on scraps of pipe and lifted them from the ridge as we framed the roof. Where the beams sat on top of the corner posts I cut a bridle joint to help hold things in place, we are lowering the beam down onto the post's tenon.
On the river side we have the main roof extending out 12 feet over the center "Hideaway" porch. On each side it is flanked by porches off the dining and master bedroom wings. This is a shot soon after we had built the porch decks and put the porch roof carrying beams in place.
The Hideaway with rafters, the shed porches overframed on the trusses.