You’ll want to take a look inside this unique log home design located in Chester, New York. This immaculate, contemporary log home is located on 2.5 secluded acres with panoramic views. On the property, you’ll find rolling hills, two ponds, weeping willows, and mountains that accent the skyline. The log house construction is just one mile from the famous Arts and Crafts Village of Sugar Loaf. At this log home, you can savor mornings by the bow window or the on your covered front porch serenaded by cardinals. The kitchen is stylishly refreshed with painted cabinets, modern hardware, a wainscotted island, granite countertops, and a stainless fridge.
Proudly entertain in the grand living/dining room featuring a dramatic fieldstone fireplace. The relaxing den overlooks the deck, pool, and fire pit. The upstairs bathroom is renovated with slate tile, double vanity, lighting, toilet, and sleek freestanding tub. A spacious main bedroom has high ceilings and a walk-in closet. Architectural interest abounds in log beam detailing, cathedral ceilings, and gambrel-style roof. Plush, new carpet in all bedrooms. The full basement has Bilco doors and a wood-burning stove. The gambrel roof details of this log house construction are what sets this log house apart from other log cabin designs.
A gambrel roof is a symmetrical two-sided roof in which each side has two slopes, one steeper and one shallower. When you think of a typical barn roof, the gambrel roof is the most common design that you will see. This style is also a standard roof design found in Dutch colonial houses, and some historians suggest that early Dutch traders in Southeast Asia saw the style and brought it with them when they traveled to other places. The peak of a standard gambrel roof design is normally built at a 30-degree angle, with the second slope at 60 degrees, but it can be customized according to an individual builder’s wants and wishes.
Gambrel roofs are easy to build and they offer more storage space under them than typical pitched roofs (the triangular roof shape you see so often). They also require fewer building materials to build than roofs with extra support beams and columns. Because the gambrel provides more space, they are often seen in storage sheds, barns, or other similar structures. Gambrel roofs used in houses, log house construction, and residential buildings often include a dormer (an additional space that juts out from the building with its roof parallel to the larger roof) and double-hung windows to allow light into the space.
The gambrel can be built either end-on or side-on. The side-on gambrel style is more common in log home designs, especially those who are conforming to a farmhouse plan. Since the gambrel roof is so spacious inside, dormers are not needed to provide living space on the upper floor. Instead, dormers are used primarily to provide accommodations for windows to provide light and ventilation to the upper floor. Modern design and log house construction methods mean that gambrels can be quite strong, and you will find gambrel log homes from Montana to New England.
