(530) 899-0680Tricks of our own that change a number: a cost, a span, a permit. The ones we can show working on a real build, with the numbers that came out of it.
Mark and Sarah wanted a multi-generational guest home that could become a rental, and local zoning clamped down hard on the footprint. Rather than expand outwards, the team engineered a strict 30x40 footprint and reclaimed the dead space over the main floor with attic trusses as a bonus room loft.
The traditional path from raw land to a custom log home runs through weeks of architect consultations and a bill for a baseline set of drawings. Sierra Log & Timber built a filterable floor plan database instead: find a layout, tell them about the property, and download a complete scaled study plan for nothing.
Between site excavation, concrete and strict local square-footage caps, expanding a home's footprint outward in California is financially punishing. The SmartBuild Bonus System is a framing approach that unlocks livable space inside the existing roofline instead, out of the dead attic air a standard roof leaves behind.
