THE PLANNING

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Our builder Bob Welsh. A gifted craftsman,
Bob will captain our Crocket Log Home to it's finish.

Bob and Kathy review plans before the foundation goes into the ground.

We took pictures and drew sketches of what we wanted in our home. The hearth on this fireplace in Clyde's Restaurant (The Lodge) in Gaithersburg suited our tastes and exhibited the rustic look we are striving for.

Brent begins gathering rocks from the mountain to use in the construction of the fireplace and rock retaining wall.

We traveled to Garrett County and toured Rick Snyder's Stone Mill, chinked log home, which was built in 2004.

After hours of sketching and scribbling....day trips to regional log home shows and talking with builders and log home owners, Kathy and I decide to purchase a Crocket Log Home from New Hampshire. We were delighted with their attention to detail and their straight forward and professional approach to log home building.

We wanted a chink log style home that replicated the old pioneer cabins in the Appalachian Mountain homesteads, in combination with a contemporary post and beam great room and loft.

On a fall trip to Deep Creek Lake we met Bob Welsh (Sunset Builders), a well known and respected log home constructionist and masonry master. Bob's unabashed sense of humor and gregarious laugh reminded us of a character out of an old John Wayne movie. After repeated visits to his Crocket Log Home and seeing numerous homes and fireplaces he's constructed near Deep Creek Lake, Kathy and I knew that Bob was going to be our captain.

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: :   Walls
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: : Rocks
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