![]() ![]() The master suite has walk-in closets and a large Jacuzzi tub while other features include a large kitchen for entertaining and cathedral ceilings at several points! Plans vary from 680 square feet log cabin kits for the ideal getaway to the Riverview log home kit that is an impressive 4426 square feet. Each floor design is created to provide a comfortable living space that is not only aesthetically pleasing but functional as well. We offer a wide range of hand crafted log home kits. Our use of bigger logs, hand peeling, air drying, lag screw and through-bolt construction results in a better project than with traditional methods. We know what most other log home manufacturers have to offer and we have gained our success by being the log home builders that offer the best products, more options and always at the right price. Log homes have come a long from the traditional log cabins of the past and for more than 40 years, Homestead Log Homes has been playing a large role in their evolution. ![]() Post-construction photography by Jed Owen.Best in the West – Since 1978! Order Our Full Color Catalog Today for just $10! Construction: Heritage Construction in Waco. It’s a gift they leave for future generations of Texans. Historical preservation provides the best way for the public to experience the shared history of our country. We appreciate such heritage sites our clients choose to rehabilitate before these personal, and in some cases national treasures, are lost forever. A century-and-a-half later, descendants of this family restored the Coryell County dog-trot house to preserve its history in order to feel the presence of their stalwart Texas ancestors. ![]() The property and its farmhouse and barn were then sold to the current owners. The Tennessee doctor, who migrated to Texas in the mid-1800s, built the cabin off Highway 36 for himself, his brother, his brother’s wife, and 15 children. It’s widely believed that the passageways were closed in winter to keep out the chilling winds and provide an extra room for large Texas families. Texas settlers enjoyed a similar respite in the long days of August because of this ingenuous pioneer climate control. The name “dogtrot” comes from family dogs finding comfort in summer heat in the shade and breezes created by the covered passageway between the two cribs of the home. “That’s my Mama’s house, where she was born,” our client said. “What is that?” we asked, identifying the structure as great examples of Texas’ mid-nineteenth century log cabin construction, but not realizing it was the ancestral home of our client’s mother, the house we’d come to see. In the dead of winter the hundred-year-old live oaks hid the entry to the barn, but the crepe myrtle in front of the Texas farmhouse couldn’t conceal the signature ‘dog run,’ an open breezeway between the two dovetailed-cornered cribs of the old house. On our drive into the Texas Hill Country between Gatesville and Temple, we spotted a breathtaking steep-pitched timber frame barn and dogtrot log home sited, north of the road. ![]()
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