This is a key differentiator for us and it is a huge one! We own a sawmill and pay for nothing but maintenance, taxes, and electrical bills. What this means to you is we can take raw dried timbers, refine them, and deliver them to your jobsite for less! We also own all the light and heavy equipment necessary to build your log home. We don't have to rent by the day or week scaffolding, a bobcat, or a dumptruck, or a forklift, or a boomtruck in order to get your home built. We have all the tools and equipment and it is all completely paid for.


For those who do not have this equipment, it could could cost several thousands of dollars over the life of the project, just to have what they need to actually get the job done. For us, the investments we made years ago enable us today to build cheaper so you can better afford your home and so that we can earn more business. It really is that simple. Simple, but huge!

In the end, we understand what it is you want.  You want a great quality home for the lowest price possible.  We want to be able to make a living doing what we love to do and know that if we can't differentiate ourselves somehow you will choose someone else to build your dream log home. We have been building log homes for a very long time and along the way we have built the relationships we need with suppliers to bring you the necessary quality and price that enables us to build our homes for a little bit less.  Everyone wins!  You get your home for less and we win more business. Examples include some of the more expensive parts that make up your home.  We often source kiln dried timbers from out of state by the trailer load.  It would be easier perhaps to buy locally but that is not always the smartest and cheapest choice.  We are able to get windows and doors for near wholesale prices.  Over the years, we have built so many homes that suppliers give us deals that are hard to imagine.  Hardwood flooring, stone, granite counter tops, paint, stain, etc, we are able to get all at reduced cost because of volume purchases and relationships built over our many years of building log homes.

Working with logs is different than working with other more conventional building materials. You have to have the right equipment to lift them into place. You have to cut the corners, often with a chainsaw. You have to know where to place the bolts and how often. Most importantly, you have to account for settling in the wood so that as it dries and shrinks windows and doors are not crushed by the weight.


There are many other reasons why experience matters when building log homes. We have been building log homes in western North Carolina for almost 25 years! Collectively, our team of craftsmen has built over 400 log homes and has seen just about everything there is to see along the way. That experience saves time, saves on materials, and gets everything done safer and on budget. You can rest assured when building with us that everyone has done this before dozens of times!

We pride ourselves on building green. The very nature of building with logs is green as they are the original renewable resource! However, logs still cost money and so do all the other materials that go into your home. We take the time to plan our homes so that waste is minimized and we are able to utilize the common lengths and sizes we buy from lumber yards with very little material lost.


We use cut sheets so we know how long a specific log needs to be in a specific place before we get to the job site. We are focused on limiting the amount of scrap and waste we create on the job site so that your dollars are not discarded into a waste pile instead of used.

Efficiency is created through good planning.  And vice versa, good planning drives efficiency.  In the end, it all affects the total cost of the project and how long it will take to complete it. 


We have learned over the years how to order the tasks at hand for building a log home.  We know who the best resources are for completing those tasks in the right order, at the right time, and for a fair price.  Time is money and poor planning has craftsmen waiting at the job site for the materials they need.  Or held up because a critical path task isn't completed on time and is now in the way of progress. 


This is important to you because log home construction is not something many people actually have experience doing.  Poor project planning can affect the quality of the build, the value of your investment, and your long term satisfaction in your dream home.  We have done this over 400 hundred times and counting, we have this nailed! (literally)

We think our story is different than what you will hear anywhere else. Our experience with most general contractors is that they are the boss and basically no one else matters. We are aware of many GCs who visit jobs very briefly, bark some orders, and then move onto the next job. That is not the way we run our business.


As we have mentioned time and again here, we are a family business that runs a very lean operation. We know, as you do intuitively, that our people are the most important part of our business. They are the ones with the experience. They are the ones who swing the hammers. They make decisions every day that affects the project. They decide to come to work in the heat (or cold), work hard or not, work fast or not, and to work efficiently or not. They are the drivers that make our homes happen and as such they are very important to us.


We are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience working for World Outdoors. Compensation, time off, bonuses, benefits, proactive safety meetings, parties, you name it, we really try to go to extra mile whenever we can. We consider the people who work on our homes as part of our family and we try to create a great team environment so that they will feel the same way.