Episode 3 | Log Cabin in Colorado Mountains | Amish Dream Homes

I dominate like a bar I'm an animal My Kem are logs sitting like a circus around here oh I'll have to start cracking the whip here There's no point in life without dominance Diana loves the

mountains

, it's such a fun family. It will be a great

cabin

that would be a radical fun trip. I can't wait to see the faces on it when they arrive. Oh my goodness, welcome to the winter wonderland in the

mountains

of northern Montana. The family life of master craftsmen LV Miller and his wife. Rebecca has six children, but this Amish family doesn't ride horses or buggies, they use cell phones.

Hey, grab my tech and power tools. Oops, LV runs one of the largest

cabin

businesses in Montana. His team makes unique wooden houses. send them to families across the country and spruce up their interiors turning their

dream

s into reality it's spring in Montana the heat of log cabin building season LD and Abby's team are in overdrive getting ready to build and equip more of 30 amazing cabins this year super staff we got a call from a couple in Colorado who want a log house in the mountains sounds exciting sounds great we can't wait to meet you beautiful over there my name is Diana Janssen and this is my husband Espen Janssen my Silva It's near Norway, we have three kids, they're actually more adventurous than me, one step forward, three steps back, my mom is the craziest of all of us, most moms say, oh, you want to go on a date with mom and daughter and they go.

We go out for coffee and my mom says you want to walk a 14 or we want to be closer to all the things we love to do, like skiing, ice climbing. Hello, I would love to build a cabin on land that I have inherited. It sounds so romantic to be able to come home for Thanksgiving and have a wood stove and a mountain cabin for my cabin. I would love to have a porch off the foyer overlooking the property and a kitchen that is the central focal point of the cabin inside and a total area of ​​about 1,100 square feet, it will be an amazing experience to be here and have a cabin instead try to camp here, it will be nice to have her while lb and his team build the cabin structures for clients like Diana and Espen designer Abbey adapts her interiors Hello, Abbey Abbey is lively and fun, but she is very creative, she has a knack for the interior and makes that really stand out.

The mountains are beautiful, yes they are amazing and I'm Abby. Nice to meet you. I'm Espen Espen and what are you looking for? So we're downsizing right now. We have a 5 bedroom house with over 3000 square feet and it requires too much maintenance. I have a criteria that you need. be exaggerated resistant you are in the right place you have it every time I ask his opinion he says: "I don't care, it's dirty, yeah, everything, what kind of kitchen I don't care, just dirty, okay, what do you have to say ?" Tell us a little bit about your terrain how high this place is, it's ten thousand five hundred feet, this valley right here is where all the loose space is.

Wow, the part that can be built is very steep, well, there is something we are used to. LT has drawn a design that will look great on the mountainside of Diana and Aspen, it will be a chalet style home built on two floors, the main entrance will be from the road and will lead through a mud room to a ground floor kitchen Open plan and a living room with bathroom to one side, double doors will open onto a large porch providing spectacular views of the mountains. A long staircase will lead to the loft area, which will be the master suite with separate doors to the dressing room and master bathroom.

This open-plan space will overlook the main living area below, but LVN Abbey will race against the clock to build the family's mountainside

dream

home in time for Thanksgiving, then , where will the children stay when they come to visit the shed in a shed where my parents were? make me stay, they talked about it for a long time, yes last summer we cut down the trees ourselves to make room for the cabin, we have been camping there for a long time and it is exciting to have a cabin excited, the slope is very possible. It will be a challenge and in the mountains the weather can change very quickly.

We'll have to get to work on this project before Thanksgiving in northern Montana. Elvie and his team are preparing to build one of his most challenging log cabins. To date, today we are starting to build Diana's house, my brother Joe will be the foreman here on the rig and in Colorado the wood we use comes from a hundred mile radius and it is special wood, there is no lodgepole pine and it grows thick gather and compete for as much sun as possible, so long straight logs with very thin bark make really beautiful logs for the house and for his house alone we are using over 120 logs.

I think this is really cool. The central area is an entire cathedral with open beams. ceiling so you can see from the kitchen to the dining room, that's going to be really nice with this hallway coming off the side, let's do it, let's do it. Elvie and Joe have no time to waste if they are going to finish Diana's. home in time for Thanksgiving, we pre-assembled the entire log package here on the deck, the log walls, the rafters, the stair roof joists, the porch gables, then we took down the entire structure and the We ship to Diane's lot during free assembly, we are careful to do it by hand. each log precisely so that when we get to the mountains of Colorado everything fits and nothing is missing you need the spoon to beat the sugar and pepper mm-hmm on the other side of the garden, Elvis's wife and daughters are preparing a gift for him construction team.

It is one of my old favorite recipes, everyone likes it, we like to bring cookies to the kids at the pad because they are practically next to us. I definitely learn a lot from my mom. I like to be busy. I probably learned it from my dad. I have amazing cookies hmm Wow mmm healthy stuff, it's always a big surprise when they bring cookies with that pattern. It's a good thing they make them with all-natural ingredients, so they are very tasty and probably good for you, well, I know. Okay for me, one more first light, we have to keep moving, get these logs ready to load on the trucks, as soon as we get the whole houses up, we'll number everything and take it down, put them in big bundles.

They put them in the truck and are outside the dinner place with so many logs. LV has organized two semi-trailers to ship Diana's house. We have Wild Man Joe as well as Rocky and his semi truck, these guys know how to deliver a log home with this package. here they moved it again they have room to push them here is where it gets a little complicated oh there goes the last one to go really important to make sure her house is just as she ordered it is 1100 miles from Elvis's yard to the lot Diana Joe and Rocky will head south through Wyoming and into Colorado.

It should be a two day trip, but with the snow storm blowing on the roads, the roads are quickly becoming dangerous. We have a little bit of whether suddenly a little snow or not, so it's We'll make the roads a little fun, like going ice skating, they probably won't scare us a little, it gets slippery, it'll be a pain, look at the road, it's pretty slippery now, we're turning right now, so It's going to be a fun ride with the logs in transit Diana is visiting the Abbey design studio in Bozeman Montana when it comes to interior design.

I have no idea. People always come into my house and then just move things around. I know what I like, but I don't know how to get there, well, let's see your project, my bad. Abbey has prepared some design plans for the interiors of the cabin. There's a lot that can fit in Diana's house, so Abbey has focused on space planning and wants to put in a mobile. island in the kitchen to open the front of the house for a dining area overlooking the porch Tim, this will leave enough space for a desk and shelving as well as a sofa and a communal table to create a living room from here the family to enjoy the stunning views of the mountains and the warmth of a wood stove.

Abby wants to commission a unique piece to store firewood and mount the TV to maximize space in the upstairs corner of the master suite. There will be plenty of room for a king bed with nightstands, as well as a chair and floor lamp. This will still leave room for two large dresses for all of Diana's outdoor clothing. Tell me what elements you like in the furniture. I like natural elements of wood and metal. I like the clean lines, great, let's take a look at this table here. This is a walnut top, so it's the contrast of adding the metal with the wood that's what draws you in.

There are many pieces that reflect what I like and there are many. pieces that are very strange. I'll leave the interior design to Abby. Actual conditions are bad at the moment. That storm we hadn't kicked up just got ahead of us and now we're driving on ice. So far we have rotated. our titles lost grip maybe I don't know half a dozen times I guess when I got there a plow right in front of us or whatever on a hill on ice braking too much this is what's called a dangerous situation you're standing here if you step on the Brake too hard you'll end up right in the ditch if you're going 70 miles an hour and you hit something and say oh bomb, I mean you'll just explode drunk spinning, I'll tell you. can happen at any time these roads should not be disturbed with Diana's logs on the way to her mountainside property in Colorado ellaby is doing some last minute yard work hey come on I wonder how many eggs they have today , probably in total My wife Rebecca and I have six beautiful children before I go to Colorado.

I'm going to get my balls together with two little girls. Lots of green eggs. They will be delicious for breakfast. Dad, you're her friend. He says funny. funny stories and drawings, okay, it's my turn, terrible, don't drop them, okay, let's go inside, we better go to Colorado. Good job, I didn't drop a single egg yom-yom here we go to Colorado, goodbye everyone, this is Diana. Come on, Joe and Rafi should be almost there with the lugs by now. This is the plot where the house will be. Here my property goes beyond these trees to the next group of trees down there.

I don't know why people want to live on a beach, there's nothing to do but lie on the beach. Hi Diana, how are you? Yes, this is an amazing place, thank you. That's wrong, what's 10,000 feet here, so the mountains up there are about 13,000 feet. We are at ten thousand six hundred. my winter wonderland is amazing, it's beautiful The Aldys team faces the challenge of locating Diana's house among the forest on the mountainside. The views should be impressive, but getting the logs to the site won't be easy. The road leading to Diana's lot is too narrow for Joe and Rocky Semis we are going to have to unload all the logs in town and transport them to her lot in a smaller trailer with my camera so I can send it to my husband so he can believe me , you like robust, you will certainly get it.

It's a big, thick log in my little cabin with the logs delivered, a crane arrives to help the Elby team assemble the house. They want to place all the logs within the next 48 hours at ten thousand six hundred feet. The number one obstacle is whether there is any snow. or the cold wind would be really miserable, that's nice and we'll start here with our generators and still like high altitude, here we go, we're excited to get this thing on the road, we'll put our tools down right away, we'll start laying out the first log The pitch It's critical, there's a broken line on the log that lines up with the foundation and it squares everything up, burn me to within inches, okay, that's perfect, so it's important to have those straight and the rest of the house moves on.

In the first course, we should definitely improve this corner a little. The team is my brother José. Oh, he's a leader. Don this job, Chris and a right hand we have the power. And there's Jerry Phillip, my brother-in-law. let's double check our crossing measurement here I'm an animal when it comes to sitting logs I hope this isn't bragging, but I'd probably smoke these guys if we had a competition. I would beat him. He had claws when I was younger, we fought, he always won and now that I'm older, he's gotten a little closer to Brian, hey, thanks, puff, we'd have to save some time, the owners are always excited to see how he turns out.

They lift the trunks. big problem for them Wow, happy customer, happy life for me, jealous, nice to meet you, Joe, yeah, nice to meet you, Jew. I felt like I needed to make him a very big meal and put some meat on the bones, how can you move these big logs? and be very thin, but I guess it's hard work to keep them in shape, no, okay, what do you think these trunks don'tthey are small? Hey? The bigger the better I like it, the bigger the better I can tell by the size of the logs. that my square footage will be smaller, it doesn't look like there will be a footprint, but I always wanted a cozy log cabin high in the Rocky Mountains. do it, the sun reaches the horizon, they'll probably stop, it's hard for me and the boys to be away from their family for any period of time.

I prefer to have married men in workplaces far from home because it gets faster because you want to get home to your wives this will be my home for a while. I miss Rebecca in the kids in Colorado. Diana stays on her lot to oversee the assembly of her dream log house. I'm sleeping in the car to save. some money has been quite nice I can see the sun rise every morning the first night I was here it was zero degrees it was very cold when I came out now it's hot it gets up at 25 degrees now this is my refrigerator.

If I have to put this cooler outside, it has the ability to lock with padlocks so the bears don't get in. I always have to sleep with a lot of clothes on because what if a bear was attacking him? car I could just run out when I get up I make myself a cup of coffee, you can think without it. Greetings, Today is another great day on site, it is our second day with the crane and we are looking forward to installing the second floor and grating. before dark my Stetson is much warmer but we have to wear helmets on site, well we are working at over 10,000 feet and where we live at just over 2,000 feet there just isn't the oxygen we are used to, you just have to know that . go deeper I try to drink a lot of fluids and get over it it's like every little thing you did made you tired it's crazy hey José, what's going on with your door around here?

Look, if you look at this, we'll have to move on this. the logs will move that way, okay, now go up and get these screws out of here, well, we tried calling them and they wouldn't come in, so we just screwed it up, not a good plan, start lifting, oh, it's always fun have LV around or she has different ideas, oh my god, there goes a ship. I do things a little differently on some of those things, but it works. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Something like a circus. Around here, it's getting more and more fun. this show on the way i'll have to start cracking the whip here now make sure you don't try too hard on the ladder there i'm holding this ladder down it's not putting anything i don't see anything happening yeah what's happening how many friends are there the world is working oh hey I see it, maybe one more scoop, I appreciate you here have good eyes for spotting Jerry, when you're here if we could get better help around here we'd be in good shape, we'd get an AI Program, you make Check these people's eyes before they start working a little better.

I love it, it wouldn't do any harm at all. Secondary education at least looks good. Dominate like a boss when you lift a big beam in the mountains. from Colorado, it can be a challenge, now, now, now, wait, are you tight? Yes there you go, it weighs over 2000 pounds, if the wind picks up or they start spinning you don't want to mess with that. That's a big beam so one post goes here and then the second post will go here and the fall of the posts has set in, Jax, it takes about two years, you have to lower these posts a little bit, they'll go down about two . inches up here will be cozy, so it's an Amish tradition that the owner has to write the last log, he has to sit right in the middle of the log and everyone on the ground has to swing all the way up and then they have to figure out how to get down after that.

I totally agree. It would be a fun trip. Well, it fits. Wait guys. Good job. It was great. Now I can walk through it and start to visualize where I could. putting up my furniture is very exciting in Montana Abbie is visiting a local craftsman to create a custom TV stand and storage unit for Diana's living room today we are here at Pete's shop he is a good friend of mine he focuses on metal and wood I think so. It will be fun to bring some cleaner-lined industrial elements to Diana's cabin. Yeah, I can't wait to see what she comes up with, so here's the model that we just did some little details on that she had a nice piece of steel tubing. just come out on the side and be a nice subtle detail, well, let's do it.

What excites me is that I know they will completely kill it with the aesthetics. This is our reclaimed barn wood because I love raw materials and letting the materials speak for themselves. God is definitely in the details, okay, can I absolutely try one? Here's how to do this, hold it here and make sure you push down here so it's flat, you want to make sure it's flat, pull the trigger, it's just not designed. training machinery, that's good, so these are the shelves that will sit inside the wooden console and then we have the perforation that goes down the edge, we can easily bend it and it creates a nice little detail throughout that scene, just pass it over radical radical here's our first amazing piece, looks like we've set up the latest record just in time, the weather is changing and it's going to make our lives a lot harder, here come the snoke's, welcome to winter, wonder, heavy Colorado in Colorado, the weather is killing it.

Havoc with the Elvis crew who are building Diana's log house on the mountainside. We've been making great progress on Dinah's cabin, but right now a snow storm has hit. boards with slots in the roof bar, the temperature is probably 28 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit and with the humidity dropping fingers get cold, we have harnesses to be safe but these boards all it takes is a little snow and it's just slippery as can be and you don't want to fall off this roof, it's a long way to the ground, we started late with the snow, but we have all the pine boards tongued and grooved and an afternoon is a house builder's entire day log cabins we have been making good progress with Diane Estes cabin then the weather hit us and we have to move on so we can get this done so Diana can move in before Thanksgiving domination Jerry is the fun guy in the recruiter we go into total boss mode when we start working what I always try to do is dominate.

I'm dominating. It kind of breaks things up and makes everyone laugh a little. He has a way of thinking in words. Donald and gently. with it, but it has this strange way of making them almost contagious. It's definitely a blessing when you wake up in the morning and expect to go out and just dominate the day it seems like the word dominate has really spread overseas, even Cruz was. I'm not working with her, they say domina, we use it a lot, we're probably over it. I guess it's because it's a sweet word. Life has no meaning without domination.

These guys weren't really tough, so let's take a little break. We found this. old banjo here in town with one string missing we'll see if we can make this play I mean, this is more important than building a log house I have time to breathe I have time for music that's right, keep it loud Believe, we'll make it this I noticed they were all crouched around the banjo trying to do some southern things with it. I don't like other things happening, we're losing it. Oh that's when we kept trying to make it work and it just kept breaking it was a pretty intense moment where we gave up on Gary the banjo boss, he can handle it no matter what comes his way.

You get along with many of their 4-string teachers as the kids continue working on the roof. Diana is visiting a local carpenter that she was designing. her kitchen the kitchen is a very important part of the house for me, I love it, I'm very excited to work with Todd. I'm going to choose the doors I want, little door anatomy for you, the horizontal pieces are rails and the vertical ones or stylus, this is a panel so you have stiles, rails and panel, okay, I think it's okay, It's okay, it's very rustic, it's beautiful when I buy the wood, it comes raw like this, some have more blue than others, this loose stain is a fungus.

It is not the beetles that kill the tree, it is the fungi and then the fungus gives it the color. I like this blue color, but I don't like it to dominate, so maybe I'll put the bluer pieces on the panels and the less blue ones. I'll put on the Stiles and the rails. Okay, it's an amazing machine that can be used as a style or rail. I would like it to be very fast. I love your store. I like it. The weather has improved, so now the boys are finishing up. road, so Diana said she had a cabin that she and her son Alex built a little shed, so I'm going to check it out.

It's a beautiful place down here. It looks a little like the first cabin my brothers made with round logs like that. What happens if you don't remove the bark? They rot, trap water and things like that. Yes, they will probably last ten or fifteen years and will probably fall off. Yeah, all that's wrong was that I was just trying to close it before winter. Yeah, your shed makes our product look great, that's why we hired you, huh, I hope so. Yes, yes, which reminds me that I am very concerned about the position of the porch. I think we need to move it when the snow plows arrive. bury the hall porch, so I think we should move it to the side.

I hope this doesn't set the team back too much because I really want this cabin to be finished by Thanksgiving in Colorado. Diana has ruined the works by asking LV. to move the porch off the foyer, I really think the entryway will be buried if we haven't now worked with the hill you said you have on the property, it's a big change to bring that entryway to a different side of the house per the original plan. The hall porch was to be built facing the road, but with such a steep slope, Diana is worried that it will be buried in snow in winter, so Elby's team must move the porch to the side of the house, this will allow Dianna to park in the driveway. straight through the hall and into the open plan kitchen and living room as you walk down the hill I'll go to the Sunburst entrance which is a really nice feature with all the pre-cut logs in Montana this change is a big setback so The DS team will race against the clock to finish it today for Thanksgiving.

My children will bring the windows. I'm really excited about the cabin because we can go skiing. We are thinking about purchasing ATVs and snowmobiles. It is perfect. My son Alex is digging. some steps so we don't fall or turn the cabin windows the Dianna select for women are actually a very good quality window there you have it kids oh my goodness I'm glad I had big kids they call them coated windows that means You have vinyl on the inside on the outside, so you have the best of both worlds. Nice stairs you made, oh my goodness, this is so every stage of window installation requires skill, so Ellamy says he's the animal that cuts a window, okay?

So let me ask you a question: would you rather have an animal cut out your windows or would you rather have a professional carpet cut out your engine? I think it cuts like butter. The first thing we do is measure the windows and the second thing is get a level, make sure we have really straight lines along the edge of the window so that when we cut it it's as square as possible, gave it a try and then we cut a 45 degree bevel on the outside and that's just to give it It's a nice finish, Jerry, you want to sand this down.

We have to put a window, but around the window and then we will insulate the top of the windows. It is completely airtight. No air can pass through there. We simply trimmed the entire interior of the window to make it look tasteful it goes with the style we have here. Well, with the windows, it has been reduced to a B to equip the interior. I hope to finish it by Thanksgiving. We'll see today. We arrived. in Fairplay Colorado it's beautiful, the leaves are changing and the weather is amazing and Elvia is out of the park again.

The house is beautiful, so I'm very excited to get home or pick up a van full of her personal items. I think it's always good to have something personal. items so that when they walk in they feel like they are at home Hi, it takes my breath away, there are so many different areas that we are trying to implement in one space. I really just want to overfill it with too much furniture that we're going to stack. It's nice inside I love the TV Sam I think it turned out great look how cozy it will be to watch TV in here I love the logs the steel is all heavy the TV is dark and the console is dark it doesn't stand out that you have a TV in the room it just blends well, what are you doing?

I'm going to wax here. I have an idea, let's go watch this when I was upstairs and I looked out the window and saw perfect weather. I thoughtwhich would be awesome for a bench that is a piece that came out of the wall when they were cutting out the doors and windows oh that's perfect this is a little flatter I need to put the legs here oh let's do it I enjoy working with Abby on the interior design Abby has brain. I have the Brawn look, how cute is she. I need to ruin it. That is.

I love that we find everything on the property. Let's do it in ten minutes. You can have a bank, no. I'm here I feel like I'm snowboarding, we finished painting it, okay LV, damn, you give a firm I 5 there, I'm less tough, huh, oh yeah, it's all that good cabin building me there. I guess Abby is done. great job finishing the cabin the interior now can't wait to see the reaction of the diner's family right now Diana and her family are on their way here to see the cabin for the first time can't wait to see you It's great to see what Abby has done, yes, because I have no design tastes.

It's true, I can't wait to see her faces when they arrive. The only thing I will look for is whether it is exaggerated or not. sturdy Wow, check it out Wow, hello, what do you think you throw up? Let's go down, let's see the other side absolutely. I can't wait, oh my gosh, this looks so amazing, it's beautiful, it looks so good, these cabinets are amazing, it's that blue. pretty pine I wanted the kitchen to be this focal point I really think it is, it goes from the kitchen to the property. I love it, you create your little office space.

I know it's a big room, but there are special places. do different things yeah what I love about this is if you're working on your laptop you can still look out the windows. I love how open it is.open, but we also have to find cool spaces. I love how we can put your mother's table here. Look at all this space so you can expand it. Yes, that was my concern. You know what I like about this space when you move in. under the kitchen you look up at this high ceiling, yeah, and that's why we have this spacious feeling here, let's look at your room.

I like these log stairs, yes. Wow, look at it, oh my god, this is beautiful. Look at our first bed. 22 years of marriage. We've never had one before. This is really cute. I like it. The upholstered headboard would be great because when the aspen leaves turn into coffee in the morning, I can't sit and drink my coffee. I try. What do you think your vanity looks like like this? Looks like he finally found her home. It always seemed like a stepson and all the houses I lived in, but I think it's for a log house. Now it looks very good.

I love the mix of old and new, all the different woods. Reed. How nice they did it, yes, let's go see the bathroom, okay, everything turned out. I still look amazing, I love it, I love it, it's so amazing, it's not your sink, yeah, so each one of these is mine, the one on the right, so I can get a very close shave and I can match that hair very flush, it's beautiful and then I really like the top. I think this is an absolutely perfect bathroom, so why don't you come out and look at the porch?

Look at them, they wear great, it's Spectacular, it just falls and it's like you're living in a tree house. Is beautiful. The river area down there is where the moose walk around and have a cup of coffee and see the new ride. I would love to hang it from my hand. kiss here and just hang out and we have logs to hang them yeah we made you a bench on top of the bed she thought about your garden. She was thinking of turning that piece into a bench, no, you're not sure she did. saving it all this time, so I'm really glad you did it for me, that's really fun.

I think the cabin is absolutely amazing. I love how open the loft is. I love the way she IV decorated everything. It's perfect for our family to feel comfortable. she snuggles, so this is the piece she asked Pete to build for you. As you like? To me, extremely durable is the theme of this cabin and it is extremely durable. I have always dreamed of a log cabin in the woods in the Rocky Mountains, this is my dream home, this place is fantastic, although there isn't much room for rooms, so when out of town, bet your last dollar, I'll be here looking forward to the Thanksgiving meal because 'I'm so grateful for everything that's going on here for us, this cabin has our family written all over it.

This will be a good year. I think my parents will be very happy here, especially my mom this year. I am very grateful to have been. blessed to finally have my dream house, so exciting, very excited, I am grateful for the fact that it is exactly what I wanted, an extremely sturdy cabin, it has been Dianna's lifelong dream for a log house and here it is, it's a dream.