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Bears Den is a
home-based business, operating from a log cabin near Pierre,
SD since 1996.
Our log packages are designed for the
South Dakota prairie. Kiln-dried,double tongue & groove logs
with saddle notch corners bolted together with through-bolts
make weather tight walls. Natural tapered, hand peeled
beams, trusses, posts, and railing add a rustic feel to the
milled full round wall logs. Design and planning assistance
plus on-site technical support from an experienced log
builder makes building it yourself or using a local
contractor and local suppliers an attractive choice.
In addition to our custom log home packages and log cabin
kits, we supply and install true half log siding and log
accents including log beams, log trusses, log stairs and
northern white cedar log railing for rustic remodels or new
projects.
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Try out Log Cabin
Life in the Black Hills of South Dakota
The Erickson log home, located near
Deer Mountain south of Lead and Deadwood in the Black Hills,
was completed last year by Jason Rakow Construction, an
experienced log home builderfrom Lead, South Dakota. This
Bears Den Log Home now known as
Old No. 7 Place is available for vacation rentals. Jennifer
Erickson has created a fascinating web site, "the Building
of Old No. 7 Place" with rental information, a virtual tour,
and photos tracing the entire construction process. Check it
out at
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Start the
Adventure
To get the best results and provide the best
service, Bears Den treats all log home plans as
custom plans. Gathering information and sending
preliminary drawings back and forth for approval can
take several months, but it's the only way to
design the log home that's right for you. We'll
start with your sketch or one of our distinctive log
home plans combined with your ideas and special
needs. As we go through the process using
experienced log designers, your ideas, and our log
building experience, the perfect plan will
evolve.
Plan deposit amounts are
based on the size and complexity of your home. They
usually run from $1.50 to $3.00 per square foot of
estimated living space. The plan deposit is credited
to the log package cost when the order to cut logs
is placed.
But it doesn't cost anything to talk about building
and living in a log home, so call Mike today at
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Mike Sines, Owner
Bears Den Log Homes
Mike Sines is a retired Police Captain and
experienced log home builder working in the Dakotas and
surrounding states.
Ann Sines is a free-lance writer and quilt-maker. She
creates custom quilts, teaches quilt classes, and produces
the Bears Den Newsletter,thoughts on quilts and logs, books
and dogs, brilliant insights,acts of stupidity, and
practical solutions tumbled together in no particular order.
The business name came from our first
Alaskan Malamute, Bear. Bear was followed by Mato ("bear" in
Lakota). Sophie, his sister from a later litter, was 8
months old when we got her. Mato was followed by Barney, (a
derivative of Bernard, "bold as a bear" in Celtic), born
April 2010 in Walsenburg, CO.
Barney at 10 months |
