Design Services

How do I start to design my custom Heritage log home?

First of all at Heritage Log Homes we offer our design services FREE of CHARGE.  When we start the custom designing process from our office, we recommend that you review many of the log home floor plans from our site as well as look into other publications for ideas, such as log home magazines.  Keep an open mind because from the smallest to largest of floor plans may offer an idea or design criteria that could be incorporated into your log home floor plan.

Once you have come up with designs and features that you like, we than sit down with you and start to sketch ideas on paper to start the beginning of your new Heritage log home.

From the sketch we will than put the proposed floor plan into our 2D CAD system in our office.  This service is free of charge.  This step allows you to get a real idea of the space usage in your floor plan by full dimensioning the floor plan and indicating things such as fireplaces, bed rooms and beds, bathroom fixtures and their layout, kitchen layout with appliances, dining rooms, great rooms, and also garages.  It’s not uncommon for this phase of the design process to take 2-3-4 times as the floor plan gets improved and tweaked from version to version.  This step is included in our services to you from Heritage Log Homes of Michigan.

If you should need to see a representation of your custom floor plan in more of a three dimensional version, we have teamed up with an outside firm that specializes in log home designs.  We will than offer taking your plan from 2D to the 3D world.  To offer this service to our clients and with the time it takes to create these models, Heritage Log Homes of Michigan will require a design deposit on your custom designed floor plan.  This deposit goes 100% towards your Heritage log home package and if you should not pursue Heritage, than the plans will be yours for you to do with you like.  These fees are dependant upon living sq. ft., garages, porches, and decks.  If you should decide to go through this option, you will receive more detailed plans on all floors of the log home including the basement and all the exterior elevations in a 3D model format.  If you should decide to have a 3D model of your plan created, we will notify you of the design costs up front.  These costs will need to be paid prior to the design model being started.  If there are revisions to the 3D model that need to be see prior to going into a Purchase Agreement with Heritage Log Homes, we can estimate those fees at that time.