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Building Your Dream Home

Are you ready to starting building your dream home. House plan designs are abundant and easy to customize. Just getting started can sometimes be quite confusing.

There's nothing more exciting than building your dream home. Take a look at your living area now. What would you change? The floor plan for more open space, the flooring or maybe add more windows.

1. Settle on your dream house
The first thing you'll have to do is settle on is what your dream house should be. How big should it be? How many bedrooms and baths? Is your style contemporary or traditional? Once you decide on the basics, you can start designing your dream house.
2. DIY (design it yourself)
You don't have to pay for an architect. There are plenty of Web sites and software packages available that can help you design your dream house yourself.
3. Make it happen
Unless you're an experienced builder, you'll need someone to execute your plans. Whether you choose an architect to head up the project or you look to a general contractor, you'll want to find someone with experience and a good reputation.
4. Consider new materials
Have you always loved the look of hardwood floors, granite countertops and Italian tile? Well, you don't have to spend a ton of money to get the look you want in your home. There are new, affordable and low maintenance materials that will allow you to get a luxe looking home for less.
5. Look it over
Naturally, you'll want to have the builder in to fix items on his last minute punch list before he leaves the site. Have the contractor put together his own list first.

Experienced builders have a better eye for things that need to be corrected. Develop your own list as well. Before the builder leaves for the last time, you'll want to do a final walk through and make sure everything is as you wanted it to be.
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Keycraft Log Homes source and supply log homes in Nottingham, the Midlands and across the UK.
Larger log buildings are sources from Europe and smaller structures are supplied by Ludguard.
Keycraft Log Homes have a range of standard buildings as well offices and garden buildings and cabins. All designs can be adapted to personal taste and bespoke log homes can be produced to your specifications. As building control in the UK differs from many other parts of the world the main body of the building is sourced from abroad and other materials such as doors, windows, roofing, insulation etc is sourced from the UK ensuring that our buildings comply.

Don’t confuse our homes with ordinary “ log cabin” type structures. The house walls are constructed entirely from solid beams manufactured by laminating together strips of pine under intense (16 BAR) pressure to produce the ultimate in strength, durability and longevity. Standard log buildings use solid logs where the moisture is held in the centre of the beam and very gradually dries out. The pressure that results causes the beam to crack and warp, with obvious detrimental effects to the integrity of the building. While this may be sufficient for temporary buildings, it is certainly not acceptable for a permanent structure built to withstand the test of time. Remember this method of construction has been developed to endure the extremes of weather seen in Northern Europe.

Windows and doors are sourced from local manufacturers whether it be timber or PVCu that you prefer. All windows and doors are housing grade and offer a thermal grade c value.

The final look is a matter of taste. Internal or external wall finishes can be added as required. The beam walls can be painted or left with a ‘natural’ look to suit your preference and the local environment. Materials such as roofing are also a matter of your own preference. We understand that if you are building a home of your own, you want it to have the look and feel that suits you and not to be dictated to by being forced to accept a manufacturers “bog standard” appearance.