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Article: Log-built luxury: log home kits offer builders easy ways to provide clients with unique upscale dwellings.(Construction Products)
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- July 1, 2004
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When general contractor Wyatt Perkins started building log homes 30 years ago, he worked on small cabins for weekend outdoorsmen. Today, he's building mansions where families live full time.
"They were pretty rustic back then" says Perkins, president of General One in Hamilton, Mont. "People just kind of put them together and hoped for the best. Now, there's a lot more really high-end log homes. There's a lot of consideration given to the sealing and products."
Indeed, the average log home now measures 2,200 square feet and costs $250,000--not including the land it's built on, according to the Log Home Living Institute. And the buyers are 40-plus years ...