Log Cabin Build Total Cost | How Much Did We Spend? | Cost Breakdown
Welcome to RidgeLife. In this video, we look at each step in building a log home or cabin and how much it costs . We give the total cost Ann’s breakdown each step including materials and labor. We acted as our own general contractor over the build of our custom designed Honest Abe Log Homes using their Genesis log system that consists of 12”x6” Appalachian style timbers interlocked for a secure and safe fit.
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00:00 INTRO
03:13 Land Clearing
03:59 Garage
04:36 Foundation
05:26 Electric
06:36 Water Well
07:16 Insulation
08:45 Roofing
09:12 Plumbing
10:14 Natural Gas
10:50 Septic System
11:30 Gutters
11:56 Drywall
13:01 Stain & Finishing
16:17 Flooring
17:08 Kitchen Cabinets and Countertops
18:28 Stairs
19:11 HAVC
19:46 Termite and Pest Control
20:12 Septic Permit, Building Permits, Builders Insurance Extra Stain, Lighting and Miscellaneous expenses
20:54 Sidewalks
21:19 Log Home Package with Construction Labor
22:00 Total Price
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This is the best informational video on log cabins I've watched. Very engaging and educational. Everything looks great. Well done!
Thank you so much!
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@@RidgeLife Hello! Might have missed it but, is the cost of labor including in your pricing...? Sometimes it seems like you did... Thank you!
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I have so much love and respect for this guy and for his choice of music. Never knew southern musicians are so great.The best video ever.
Wow! Thanks!
Geez, my father took most of the logs off his property he used to build his 2,300 sq ft home. Peeled and cured himself. Some came from the local lumber company in town. Has finish walkout basement, vaulted ceilings, open loft with masterbedroom off of loft, 3 bath home, 3 bedrooms. All cabinets made from Heartwood cedar, which also came off his property. 2 fireplaces, main floor, and in the finished basement. front porch total length of front of the home, back porch off main floor, length of the home, patio off master bedroom, upper lower staircases heartwood cedar cut in half log treads. All for under 45k. Just shows what you can do if you're willing to put in the work and take a couple of years to build it mostly on your own, the savings are huge.
Wow! That’s amazing!
W TN is a lot warmer than MT. In our area our winter daytime temperatures are between Zero and 25. Y’all don’t get the snow either. Our Log home is an oversized Montana Rancher. We’re too old and have too much arthritis to handle stairs, so our house is a single story
Yes. Smart move!
Absolutely beautiful. Awesome presentation Tim. Go Ridge Life!!!
Thank you.
Tim, this is an excellent video. I like how you broke everything down, and made it easy to understand. The log home is beautiful, and I hope Momma Carol loves it!
Thanks! She sure does!!!
Awesome job putting this video together Tim. All inclusive construction and associated cost. Professional! 👍🏻😎
Thanks 👍
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Really helpful and well done. Congratulations on your new paradise.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Very informative and detailed. Thank for sharing the Honest Abe Log Home build with us!
My pleasure!
Tim, this home is so beautiful...thanks for sharing this information. Have a wonderful day and blessings 💞
Thank you! You too!
This was incredibly helpful. I'm building a log home in East TN. So much useful info here. I think you got a great deal all around.
Glad it was helpful!
Absolutely GORGEOUS! This is what I've always dreamed about having! A hunting cabin is a great idea! Very informative video Tim! GO RIDGELIFE!!! 👏👍🤟🥰
Thanks Dot!
It is so beautiful Tim. Great breakdown.
Thanks Cyndi!
What a detailed list of costs. This was great Tim. Lived the sped up sections of the build you showed us. Her house is gorgeous. Thank you for taking the time to compile this info and video it. Stay happy, healthy, hydrated and safe. May God continue to bless you, your family and your adventures.
My pleasure!
WOW, great video Tim. I hope that Grandma Carol has a long and peaceful life in her log home surrounded by her loved ones. Stay safe brother and as always my be regards to Starla.
Thanks Paul! Will do.
Thank you Paul. I am so happy and content.
Beautiful home . Not a bad price. The craftsmanship is excellent! ❤️❤️❤️
We love it. Thanks!
Very well put together and great information!! It looks good and I know yall are satisfied!!
Yes we are!
I love the kitchen layout! There are so many crazy fancy things done in kitchens now-a-days but I like a simple, cozy, functional design like this one. It's beautiful! Thank you for breaking down the costs for us! It's so helpful!
Yes! Thank you!
Tim, you did a great job on your mom's home, I'm sure Grandma Carol is going to love every minute living there. Can't wait to see the barndominium and barn build. You friend are living my dream.
I am humbled! Thanks.
Mine too
Great job on route you went with on building this and appreciate the time you invested in the footage and educating us on the tube with your process Much appreciated Sir
Thank you very much!
Great video! Thanks for the info & time you spent on the cabin cost content.
My pleasure
You certainly got a beautiful home for your mom Tim . I’m sure she’s happy there . Thx bless you .💕🙏💕
She loves it! Thx
Superb! Very helpful. You are the top of the line - the very best. You teach with both joy and skill. Thank you.
Wow, thank you!
Beautiful home! Grandma Carol is a lucky and happy lady.
Yes, thank you!
Great video! Lots of detail well done and well said.
Thanks!
Nice Tim, not bad! Thanks for the breakdown!
My pleasure
Sir, what a great video. You answered all of the nuts and bolts questions for us who want to build our home. Way to assemble the video also. Thanks for your time.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video and awesome home!!! Congratulations on a job well done!
Thanks so much!!
Beautiful cabin, congratulations. Really nice video showing all the expenses and the total.
Thank you!
The log home is my dream home ❤️❤️... It's so unbelievably stunning!!... For how it turned out the final cost , while not cheep it's not bad for what you ended up with 👍... I'm so happy for Grandma Carol 🤗.... Nice touch with the Ridgelife cup 😉😃
Thanks so much Ann! It was an experience getting here for sure.
We’re going with Meadowlark Log Homes out of Libby, MT. It’s a true log home. A 9” log has the natural equivalent of R-19 insulation, (2X6” stud walls). Great video. It was interesting.
Thanks! You will love it.
that was SOO helpful! Thank you~great job
Welcome!
Great breakdown!
Thanks!
Awesome video, really great! Beautiful home.
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing all of these details.
You are so welcome!
Beautiful log home! 😍
Thanks Heather
Wow! Beautiful accomplishment...Beautiful home...Blessed Momma
Thank you so much!
Wow! I want something just like this. Two years ago we sold our home in the city and are living off grid. What an adventure it has been. We want to build a home out here and these log cabin homes have caught our attention. Thanks for sharing!
Good luck! Thx
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL ❤❤
Thank you so much!!
Great video!
I appreciate that!
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing
My pleasure!
Absolutely gorgeous, Tim.
Thank you!
Interesting! Helpful information ✨
My pleasure
Its an amazing space for sure.Priceless and Wondrous home for your Mother and future generations 👍🏽☮🇺🇸
Thanks!
Beautiful house bro! Hope God gives you a full life to enjoy the fruit of your labor with your family! God bless you all endlessly! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much!
It's gorgeous Tim!
Thank Y'all!!!
You're welcome. I am sure your mom will absolutely love it there. You guys did great! Love it!
It’s absolutely beautiful and there is no comparison between this and a conventional home, living is much more peaceful. My husband and I live in Alpharetta GA and 4 months ago we bought a 700 sqft cabin in Mineral Bluff, GA on the side of a mountain just to escape the rat race of corporate America.
Ooh very nice! Enjoy!
Did you build your cabin or buy an existing?
@omarx7865 we were our own general contractor from ground up. We did a lot of the finish work ourselves too.
Beautiful cabin. I love the exterior stain color and the Sheetrock inside to break up all the wood.
Glad you like it!
Very nice thank you, we plan on doing this in Smith lake Alabama, Honest Abe, we are gonna check them out. Thank you
Great service
Not bad. It's worth it. Amazing home and it'll be there for a long time.
Thank you very much.
Love the Log Home
Thank you!
Beautiful!
Thank you!
GO RIDGELIFE, MR TIM!! AWESOME VIDEO!!
Hi" MOM" RIDGELIFE CAROL!! LOL
Thanks!
Beautiful home.
Thanks!
Just found your channel! I live about an hour north east of you. We're wanting to out a little n law quarters on our property down the road. Thank you for sharing, great info!💗
Howdy Neighbor!
TOTALLY AWESOME ABSOLUTELY PERFECT
Thank you!
Great production.
Much appreciated!
The Best is yet to come for you.
YES!
Love it!
Thanks!!
Your home looks really good 👍 love it
Thank you!! 😊
@@RidgeLife your very welcome
A GOOD VIDEO TIM A BEAUTIFUL HOME
Thanks!
Great video... It was interesting comparing notes with your build and a similar one I completed about 18 years ago. Ours was a panelised home, similar design, and being a geek with tractor toys I did all that part myself along with some finish work and insulation and painting. Wife and I did probably 1/3 of the build and farmed out the trades, yet with our 2,000 sf build w/walk-out basement ended up very close to your final price. Should make mention your final cost didn't include land purchase which most would require. We bought our land 22 years prior and waited till it was paid off before building. Great job, looks very nice and seems reasonably priced.
Wow! I am going to build my own off grid cabin over the next couple of years. Yeah. Land prices vary so much from state to state. Thx!
Beautiful home. .
Thanks Brian!
Beautiful cabin. From Mel and Gary's channel.
Thank you.
Lots of folks will be looking for the cost associated.... good idea
Yeah not many out there actually tell you what they paid and total cost. Let’s hope! Thx!
Congratulations on your build man!! Thanks so much for breaking down the costs like this. The price you paid for this wouldn't even buy a condo nowadays. Its good to show folks they have options to maintain a comfortable state of being while not paying for it with blood. ✌️ Great video thanks again for sharing🙏
My pleasure and thanks!
Beautiful place.
Thanks!
EXCELLENT 💯
Thanks!
That is one awesome place
Thanks Mark!
Hello Tim, Have a great evening!
Hello there!
GOOO RIDGELIFE 💚
Thanks Bud!
Beautiful home, great video. Just to let everyone know, 1200sq ft rancher here in south jersey on 2 acres with a superior walls foundation and oh yes its a modular will cost you 300k.No porch, no garage and no metal roof. 250 k is a steal.
Wow! Yeah much more affordable here.
Like that you built it to suit ya'll , me I'm not a fan of gypsum/dry wall , I'm more of the traditional log cabin look throughout , in sure at today's prices that would have added considerable cost to the cabin. Sure does have a nice setting in the woods ,like how you kept utilities Ac/heat and thankless water heater on the outside, thumbs up 👍
Thank you very much for your kind words!
The Cost is Something you have to worry about with anything, but that Beautiful Home is so Beautiful and Build so Good, if i had a 10 million Dollars or more there's No Dollar amount if i had it i wouldn't Give to live the Rest of my life in that Home!! God Bless you all.
Yes! Totally agree!
Excellent video and log home! I’m quite sure that same project would’ve cost 50% more up here in the northeast! Yours looks beautiful. Hopefully grandma’s enjoying it.
She is loving it! Thanks!
This is a sweet cabin
Thanks!
Nice 🎉
Thanks!
A beauty! 👍👍👍👍👍❤❤
Thanks!
One thing that would make this video even better would be to include the cost breakdown on an overlay at the end of the video. I was trying to take notes and wasn't sure I caught all appropriate figures. Otherwise great work thank you!
Thanks for the feedback!
Great video, thanks. 2 comments. Costs are a lot less in Tennessee than in n Idaho wherecwe will build, but your numbers are very helpful. And I cant believe your finish guy used those ladders without fall protection. That's a huge no go for me
I bet it’s higher there! Yeah he scared me too!
Hello Mr Tim. I am sorry you felt pressured into reveling the cost. I'm very happy to be back and ready to get back to work helping you. Bless you and take care.
Oh no pressure. I just thought many would benefit from knowing. Thanks!
Beautiful house. I'm thinking about building one soon. I'll be using wood and electric heat.
Very nice!
Our barndominium also has taken two years to build out. Our metal building is 2000 sq ft, two bedroom, two bathrooms, large pantry and living room/ kitchen, open plan.
Lots of work, huh?
@@RidgeLife I thought I would never finish, almost 76 years old.
Your Mother has a lovely home, and the price was worth it!
Thanks. She loves it.
Wow wow wow how beautiful so lovely,👍👌✌🏻
Thank you.
Great video you should be professional spokes person great communication skills your moms home is great build and price great job contracting job! Always watching ! I keep my eye on you
Wow, thank you!
I really like this intro song.
Thanks!
Great video. Beautiful place. Looks like a park. Who does the mowing? 😁
It’s all us!
I've been collecting cardboard boxes for about 30 years now, and I'm about ready to pour a foundation. :)
Cool!
Thanks for your great video. You did a great job. So that $250,000. Did that include the Lands cost. ? As it is a small 1400 S.F. house, so maybe the land was included in your total too. Tennessee R.E. is not expensive. Plus built a stick built 2 or 3 car garage out of wood first, and sided the front, and two sides you see with the timber look siding to match your house, and maybe use real T1-11 Ply with groves every foot, or maybe smooth, with board and batton strips on the back. That garage he had built was kind of pricey for a small all metal garage. But maybe grandma does not need lots of storage. As no need for a foundation on that small metal garage, just the small 4" thick slab floor. As this garage system is light, I dought any reason for a 12" inch wide x 6" inch thick foundation. But if wood, and big better wood trusses, that are spaning a much larger distance, as a 2 or 3 car garage, you need a foundation to hold it all up. But when done right, it would match the house. Do the same roof angle, and metal roofing. You could even have storage built in above the garage, or a kids apartment, or man cave, grand kids play room, ect. Maybe frame it a steeper pitch roof to get more space up there, and maybe a few dormers with windows facing the front. Gingerbread look. Then you can have a shop, and storage using one bay of the garage, with the stairs to go up stairs, and 2 spaces for cars or truck. Or use some of that one bay for a home office, or the upstairs for that, and put in exterior stairs to go up to it. As that Big Lot you will need a riding mower and park it in the garage. Nice clean easy lot to maintain. Nice clean job, and nice utilities shown. You paid to much for those cabinets I saw in the kitchen. Maybe the granite was a fair price, if that was a total installed price on the granite. That is a small house at 1400 .S.F. so maybe it did include the land for this $250,000. ? I usually build for resale. So I would have built the House bigger, maybe 2000. S.F.+ , 4 bedrooms, and a 3 car garage, at $300,000.+ total. But a bit more if making a big room above the garage, and making it real nice, and adding Dormer windows above the garage as a apartment, or a office. As that big attic room above the garage may add a extra $20,000. To its cost. Or make it even better, as it is a good place for a Son, or grandsons Apartment.
No that is without the land. You have to remember this was built just as the lumber and material prices were skyrocketing. Thx
Really nice log cabin and great job explaining the various steps. We are also purchaing an Honest Abe Log Cabin and have just started the process. Do you know the colors of stain that you applied both outside and inside? Really looks great. Thanks!
The exterior is permachink Smoke. I don't recall the interior but think it was natural.
I thought it was Smoke but wanted to make sure. Were you able to just apply 1 coat of stain since Smoke is the Ultra-7? Thanks again.
My friend and I have built it, two of us.
WoW!
@@RidgeLife We still have a little bit of finishing off to do.
Tim- Amazing job, possibly one of the BEST breakdowns of what's involved in building a log home. I went on Honest Abe's website, but I can not find a Dakota listed even if I use the search bar. Am I missing something? Can you post a link directly to that home?
I don't think it is a current model but was one they had that closest fit out plans and we customized from there. You can ask them for the floor plan though.
Thanks so much!
Colorado be like: "No no no....That's $900,000 listed, and will be sold for $1,000,000 because some Californian will get into a bidding war and pay $100,000 over asking price...and will pay in cash.
WOW!!!
It's sad how Colorado has become. I dunno where you're from, but as a Born and bred Colorado native, I blame Californians for our house market and other prices being so high (beyond economic normal changes).
@Lynette Agueda your mind is 💩 if you live in SoCal or close to SF. Northern CA is like eastern wa and eastern Oregon F around and find out 😂
@Lynette Agueda Well it's the policies and politicians you voted for that made CA expensive
@Lynette Agueda it's true though, you guys have higher inflation. When you come to states like Colorado ( or Montana as many do) it's like if I went back and time and bought a house. My money would go farther. Which unfortunately we can not afford because our income in this state is not as high. Thus you do two things, take homes from us that we can't buy, and cause the housing prices to rise to a point where we can no longer afford them, but you can.
Hi, wonderful video series on the log cabin build. I have a question regarding one of the line items if you don't mind answering. On the electrical section you stated that it was about $10,000. Was that just to run power to the house or did that include wiring the inside of the house and all the lighting, switches, receptacles, etc?
That’s was all in for electrical.
Great Video, what was the square footage on this build
It is 1400 hft2.
Beautiful home…. But where do I find this song at the intro and ending??? Can’t find it anywhere
It’s on epidemic sound. Thanks.
Thank you for a great video. My wife has been stressing about us having our own cabin built and hopfully after she sees this video she'll be a little bit less aprehensive. We are not from Tennessee and have no idea how to go about finding honest and reliable subcontractors. We haven't even found our property yet so I don't really know what part of the state we'll settle on. We have looked at several properties just sout of Nashville and also farther east in the Sieverville area. Do you have any advice for finding individual contractors(land clearing and grading, foundation, plumbers, electricians etc). Thank you for any advice you can offer. Howard
Honest Abe Log Homes helped us find the sub contractors for log specific work and work they has experience in our area. We then spoke with other contractors and got an idea of who they use locally. We then went to facebook groups to get opinions on their work.
Hey thank you for the video I called about a well on my land in North Ga he said 12,000 to 15,000 I think i'll shop around.
OUCH!
Did you find a better price? One thing that can drive up the cost is the land itself. If it's rock bed drilling can be very difficult.
This is an incredibly informative video. Thank you for sharing. I do wonder about 250,000 for a building which is engineered logs on the first floor only, and otherwise stick built. And none of this included the cost of the land. But it's very nice.
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely beautiful.