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  • Log Cabin Luxury

    Log Cabin Luxury Recently, my family and I spent a weekend just outside of West Yellowstone. It was amazing! We went to all the great tourist places: Yellowstone Park, Quake Lake, and Big Spring, to name a few. The crisp fall mornings were beautiful! But surprisingly, one of the highlights of the trip was the cabin we rented. The rustic comfort of a cozy log cabin is something that has to be experienced. It has a feeling all its own. There is nothing quite like sitting down in front of a cheery fireplace with a blanket and a warm cup of hot chocolate. Equally relaxing is the pleasure that comes from taking a nap in a cabin loft with the rain falling gently on the metal roof. The Plan Collection offers a large selection of Log Cabin House Plans big and small. The cabin above is GHD-1021.

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  • Mountain Home Plans – Stylish Ingenuity

    Mountain Home Plans – Stylish Ingenuity   Mountain Home Plans, like almost any other style of architecture, were developed foremost for function. While settling fertile mountain valleys overlooked by the snowcapped peaks of the Rocky Mountains, people needed homes that could withstand the long harsh winters. The result of the settlers' ingenuity is known today as Mountain style home design. Mountain house plans are a hybrid of several stylish and functional types of home design. They often combine the rough-cut quality of Craftsman House Plans with the rustic appeal found in Log Cabins. Mountain houseplans also borrow design principles from Swiss chalets in order to provide you with a stylish home that was made to adapt.   This is R3102b. It is a perfect example of Mountain Style Home

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  • Luxury Log House Plans

    Luxury Log House Plans Looking at a home in all of its contexts is an important step in choosing a particular design. In fact, it makes the home plans, or the house plans, or whatever your preferred phrase may be, just that much more important. The plans must have the context of the home inherent in the design. So what are the contexts; what do we look for in a home? To be fair, we must note that the answer is different for everyone. It depends on your last home, and what it lacked or didn’t lack. It depends on how much you have to spend… well, usually anyway. Too often we think of house plans in terms of how many square feet, how many bedrooms, how many bathrooms, etc. Instead we need to think about the indoor environment Looking at the environment, or the

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  • Log House Plans Step by Step

    Log House Plans Step by Step Log Houses are generally sought after for their rustic appeal. The exposed raw material blends in with nature’s landscape and gives a feeling of being one with your surroundings. The great outdoors are the main inspiration for the overall design of all log home plans.To truly capture the connection between nature and your log home, you’re plan will need a few key features. Log house plan NDGJB-1016 has everything you need to create your indoor/outdoor natural environment. The designers followed this simple recipe:Step 1: TransitionYour land is a valuable asset and should be enjoyed by your family and friends. To take full advantage or your very own outdoor home, create a transition between your house and your lot. A covered wrap-around porch is the perfect example of this.

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  • Cozy Log House Plans

    Cozy Log House Plans Log house plans can be used to live in all year long, or for a great vacation spot. At The Plan Collection, we have a variety of both small vacation lodges, and large log homes that you’ve always dreamt of.NDGJB-1027 is a beautiful example of something right in between. With three bedrooms, each with plenty of closet space, and two full bathrooms, this plan is fully capable of year long residency. However, with a small footprint facilitated by open design and few cumbersome extras, this set of log home plans is inexpensive enough to be a perfect get-a-way in your favorite resort town.1027 is one of my favorite log house plans for several reasons. One of the best features about this set of plans is the wrap around front porch. With a section left uncovered, you can choose to stay in

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  • The Dream Home Collection: Plan #1

    The Dream Home Collection: Plan #1 DD-3925 I would like to go over a few of the key features that this home posseses. It has a master bedroom on main level, original kitchen with triple garden-doors, two large family rooms one of which is used as home theater, and 5 spacious bedrooms. On the main level it features a large closed foyer, half-bath, master bedroom suite with walk-in closet and private bathroom, kitchen with island / lunch counter and access to sunroom, dining and living rooms share a central fireplace, large family room with cathedral ceiling and home theater with integrated furniture. On the 2nd level it features two cozy bedrooms, a bathroom, sitting area, mezzanine overlooking family room, bonus room. And finally in the basement, is a the laundry facilities, a

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  • Cabin Plans

    Cabin Plans All year long people are searching for the perfect cabin plan for the lot the just bought at the lake. I highly recommend searching through our cabin plans and enjoying the spectacular floor plans that some of these designers bring to the forests and lakes. I have featured above this article two of our more popular cabin plans. This first one is a recent addition to The Plan Collection family. Some key features of this plan are a master bedroom with walk-in closet, foyer, and fireplace. Other features include rear porch, deck/patio, special ceiling treatments, and mezzanine. The second is from a gallery of cabin plans done by one of our designers. It’s wonderful how the covered porch adjoins the deck. The great room is open to above. The

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  • My Dream Luxury Home!

    This is an Amazing Luxury home! house plan #R3102 This is one of my favorite house plans. It features a very luxurious country look. It gives me the feel like I am right in Jackson Hole, WY. For those of you who have not been to Jackson Hole, it is a very rugged but elegant Country town by the Teton Mnts. A very popular tourism spot. This home plan would just fit great in a nice country environment. Of course, having a landscape like that wouldn't be too bad either. Check out this house plan on theplancollection.com. Type R3102 in the house plan search engine. Meanwhile, I will keep

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