So like you, we are building a dream. As the new facilitator of the “Building a Dream” blog, I want to share with you our journey.

Along with many baby boomers we started thinking about retirement and building our last home. We bought two acres and scoured the Internet for home plans and decided on one.

Then out of the blue in the local “Penny Saver” advertiser, I spotted an ad for a log home kit. I called the number to find out the details. The seller described an 1800 sq. ft., 2 story home, and made of western red cedar logs. He said Real Log homes was the manufacturer and gave me their web site www.realloghomes.com. He said the kit was stored on his 10 acres under carefully wrapped tarps.

I went to the web site and looked over the showcase models and amazing interiors. I wondered if one of these homes could be ours. As a smart husband I wanted to involve my wife in this possible change of direction. We reviewed the log homes on the Real Log Homes web site. She surprised me by becoming excited about the possibility on having a log home.  We poured over the log home plan of the kit under wraps in Eureka, CA, but we needed to see the logs for ourselves.

I called the log home kit seller and said we wanted to see the stored kit. We arrived on a beautiful day. The log kit was carefully wrapped.

So we stood at one of the five wrapped stacks on cedar logs and loosened the tarps and I put my head under the tarps. Wow, even after a year I still remember the intense aroma of the cedar logs.

Well, we began the adventure to build our dream.  The home you see below is the “weatherized” log home we saw wrapped in tarps an year ago. In this blog I want to share how we got to this point and beyond.

I hope you join us.