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 had some 10x10 corner posts and beams milled for the inside corners and for beams overhead in the living room. This is the first of those corner posts installed.
This is a shot of a corner post being grooved to allow us to insert a tenoned log end into the post.
This is a picture of a grooved inside corner post
The logs were notched to slide into the groove and fastened to the post with a downward facing lag screw.
Logs are notched, prebored and staged for each area awaitng assembly. We have brought up the wall to the right of the living room door. The logs on the floor are for the section to the left of the door.
This is that section completed.
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 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 framed, and the wings overframed back onto it.
The roof being sheathed, this shot is a pretty good cutaway of the roof framing.
In the livingroom the top of the post was tenoned and a bridle joint was cut on each end of a beam that spanned the room.
Setting the 20 foot long 10x10 beams on top of the log walls was a challenge. We rolled them into the house on scraps of pipe and lifted them from the ridge as we framed the roof. This shows 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 built the porch decks and put the porch roof carrying beams in place.
The Hideaway with rafters, the shed porches overframed on the trusses.