Log Home Builders - About Us

Log Home Builders, Custom Log Homes, Log Cabin Builder, Construction, Plans, Nanaimo, BC, Vancouver Island, Canada

Thank you for your interest in our handcrafted log homes. We hope the following information will be helpful to you.

Norse Log Homes are experienced log home builders that specialize in quality handcrafted custom log buildings. Whether you're interested in a mountaintop log ski chalet, a log cabin on a secluded lake, a unique log office building, a log cabin resort development, or your own dream log home, we can build to suit your needs. Norse Log Home Builders have over 1000 homes' worth of design and construction experience. Our office and main construction yard is located 5 minutes north of Nanaimo on beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

The people at Norse Log Homes have been log home builders since 1975. We moved to Vancouver Island in 1984 in order to be located at the source of the world's best supply of Douglas Fir logs.

We use select west coast grown Douglas Fir or Western Red Cedar logs with a mean diameter average of 11 - 12 inches mid span and a 15 - 16 inch butt diameter. Our logs are hand peeled using the traditional draw knife method, then scribe fitted using the Scandinavian style of saddle notches and lateral groove construction. We are proud of our natural handcrafted log homes. The quality of our homes far surpasses machined log home kits.

We have two construction yards and three 82' hammerhead cranes located on a total of six acres. Norse Log Homes hand crafts sixty to eighty log homes each year. Your project will be constructed by our highly skilled craftsmen at one of our two Vancouver Island sites. It will then be numbered, disassembled and loaded onto a truck or into a container for shipment to your waiting foundation anywhere in North America or around the world.

Norse Log Homes would be pleased to quote on log package costs from your design sketches. Our log package costs normally run between $35.00 and $45.00 per square foot, depending on the amount and complexity of your log work.

We also offer a complete custom design service which can convert your log home sketch into construction blueprints starting at $1.06 per square foot. This cost can later be deducted from your contract price.

Thank you again for your interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information or for an accurate Log Home Quote on one of our Log Home Plans or on your own ideas.