Steve and Kristyne McDaniel's House

Both of us arrived at a preference for a Lindal cedar home independently, long before we met. It wasn't hard selecting the design we wanted, because each of us likes very open floor plans, lots of windows, and soaring ceilings. The post-and-beam construction techniques used made creating the kind of house we wanted much easier.

Photos

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Below is a photo of a home with a similar appearance to the one we are building. We will replace this photo with one of our own home after it is complete.

Design

There are thousands of homes around the country based on a set of basic Lindal designs. Our design is a custom design, just like all the others, but we did base the initial layout on the Haliburton plan. The house pictured above is similar to the one that we will be building. Some interior photos of the above home are shown here. Our kitchen will not be as modern, but many of the other features will be similar. Other features we intend to include are shown in this document.

Our home was drafted by a group of designers at Lindal, engineered by subcontractors employed by Lindal, and then the entire materials package for the home's lockable shell is shipped out at once. We will receive the package in two parts, with the first shipment arriving after the scheduled completion of the basement level. The second shipment with the windows and doors arrives shortly afterwards, at a time when the framers would be more likely to be ready to install them.

While the house is sold as a package, the home itself is a stick-built custom home, using the same time-tested post-and-beam construction techniques used for hundreds of years on many homes and barns.

Designer

Our designer and Lindal dealer, Linda Gottleib, owns Quest Cedar Homes and Sunrooms in Silverado, California. Her Lindal home is almost directly across the Santa Ana Mountains from ours. The initial layouts were done using Chief Architect. The final drawings were then done by the Lindal design and engineering teams. We will scan in a few of the layouts for you to view as time goes by.

Special Issues

The site had no electric power, water, or phone lines directly to it. In order to cope until more of the neighboring landowners decide they'd like to help finance bringing in the municipal power, water, and phone services, we needed to be creative. By the time the home is completed, we expect to have the street paved, with the water, power, and electrical buried in the street just like in any other neighborhood.

This page was last modified on 28 April, 2007