Log home kitchen
Jake | January 7, 2010Last Friday I went to see a customer who wanted to remodel his kitchen. Log home had a wonderful scent as I entered the building. There was fireplace, fresh boiled coffee, wooden furniture, paintings and sauna. Every single piece gave something for the whole log home atmosphere.
Unfortunately there was a problem. Original builder of the log home had done some basic mistakes while building the log home. Firstly, the total erecting process had taken more than two years. This is a clear indicator of some compliance problems between various work stages. Secondly, materials were sort of shoddy, therefore brining down the durability of the log home. Thirdly, log home had combined structure of log shell with extra timber-frame insulation on inside. All of these features made it very challenging remodeling project.
How those challenges materialized? Present kitchen was built on three different kinds of surfaces. There was brick wall, outer log home insulated wall and inner timber framed light walls. Differences in log home settling were drastic, because there weren’t proper mechanisms on place to adjust for settling. As a result, kitchen cabinets were skewed to multitude of directions. Original installation work had also been rather poor as there were some extra holes on the cabinet doors.
We spent couple of hours mapping their needs and sketched some raw ideas for the future kitchen. Now I am in the process of drawing plans based on our initial discussion. Soon I will have a suggestion and related cost estimations to show for them, then we know if there is need to make detailed blueprints. It was such a nice log home, so I have special interest towards this deal. I will let you know how things turned out.
