Log and Timber Home Living

A Change of Plans

When Dean and Debbie Chase first started to draw up plans for their dream home, their original design idea didn’t include a single log. “We were 90 percent through with our design, and then we changed it in the ninth inning,” recalls Dean. “We started thinking about it more and more, and we decided a log home would be perfect.”

The couple’s property played a key role in dictating their final home design. The 60-acre wooded setting in the hills

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