Cedar Home

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A cedar home is warm, beautiful, and inviting... and it's also a smart purchase.

Cedar homes are typically of higher quality than many "stick built" houses, in both material and craftsmanship. There could be a number of reasons for this. Maybe it's that dream home expectation.

Maybe the warmth and elegance of a cedar home is a reflection of the owner's personality.

It probably also has to do with the quality that is built in to the packages on today's market. Cedar home vendors offer a variety of floor plans, from cozy to soaring, but you see more of the upper scale models. I'm told all the kits have quality built in.

Please understand that "kit" doesn't mean "cookie cutter." In most instances the cedar home is a custom designed and built home. A specialized cedar home vendor normally provides design and materials.

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The construction materials are cut to the proper dimensions at the vendor's yard and trucked to your home site. A contractor in your area then builds your house.

In this class of home, the building material - cedar, is a primary feature. The building style can be a log home, post and beam, timber frame, or conventional frame construction. And of course these high tech days, a combination of the above styles.

Cedar has a number of important advantages as a building material:

Natural beauty

Natural resistance to decay

Natural resistance to termites and insects

Exceptional durability

Excellent wood finishing characteristics

Nature-compatible coloring

Western Red Cedar seems to be the preferred material for cedar homes. The source for western red cedar is the Pacific Northwest (USA and Canada). Most cedar home manufacturers are headquartered in the Pacific Northwest area.

Cedar home custom kits and components are milled there and shipped to many countries in addition to US and Canadian home sites. A cedar home fits perfectly into natural surroundings. You can have natural beauty surrounding you inside and outside the home.

Several cedar home companies show floor plans on their website. This is an example. Search Google using the term cedar home plans to learn more.