Building the Interior Walls of Our Log Home

Once we’d completed the exterior walls, and as we waited for strong friends to assist in getting the final courses of logs (top rows), Eric and I set to building the interior walls of our home.

Interesting to note that logs not yet exposed to the sun had the bleached pine look, while the other logs, only a week in the sun, were already taking on the orange hue of traditional log homes.

This wall that we’re building over the next few days separates the main floor bath, master bedroom, and linen closets from the dining, living, kitchen area of the home. There will be one standard sized doorway that Eric plans to roughly arch with a chainsaw (and which I will need to sand to beautify).

The first (lower) log laid for the interior wall had to be shaved, chiseled, cut to ensure it would align and be level with the existing exterior walls. Our logs, which rest on the foundation’s sill plate, were a smidge over an inch lower than the sub-floor - not much more than the tongues had to be removed from the bottom of the logs.