Dogtrot Log Cabin plans???

[ahahahni1]

I have a idea in my head of what our dream home would look like. But I cannot find a plan even similar to it. Anyone seen a dogtrot log home plan? I mean how difficult could that be? I would settle for a single story log home with back and front door lined up. Have to be two bedrooms with one big multipurpose room. Would really appreciate any links or ideas.

[glazed]

We are building something very similar. No official blueprints, though ... we will build ourselves.

Two separate 30x30 buildings with a 30x30 covered/screened area joining them.

One building will be the kitchen, bathroom, laundry and "main" room ... and the other building will be the bedrooms.

The screened area between will be outdoor kitchen and living area.

We will build pole barn style ... with strawbale infill and earthen plaster ... very simple, and very natural, and very easy, and very cheap.

And, in my opinion, very beautiful.

[whiterock]

Look for the book Texas Log Buildings by Terry Jordan, should find it in lib. Shows examples and basic floor plans of old Texas log homes.

There is a house in what used to be Old City Park in Dallas, it was moved when DFW airport was put in. It is a dogtrot with two rooms on each side and a second story, the rear rooms are shed rooms as i recall, with a log kitchen behind it.

Ck your pm box. I sent you a message.
Ed

[Triffin]

Check out this owner/builder thread "Dogtrot at Hightop"

http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=3613.0

Triff ..

[painterswife]

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~liz/design.html

[GaMntHomestead]

I know this thread is 4 years old, but I was wondering if the OP got a dogtrot cabin/house built. Or if Glazed, the fist one to reply to the OP, has finished the one she said they were building. I am wanting to build one for our land in the North GA Mnts and am always wanting to see actual dogtrot cabins/houses, plans, drawings, links...ect. :-)

[FarmboyBill]

Is a DG house one with a porch between the 2 rooms/houses?

[GaMntHomestead]

Yes Bill, that's what it is.

[RebelDigger]

Our house was a two room dogtrot originally. They usually did not use plans. Our two front rooms are 15 feet square and the dogtrot hallway is 8 x 15. Really don't need plans for that! The important thing, if the dogtrot is to be left open for the air circulation is the porch and it's roof. That roof which is a long, sloping extension of the roof over the main house is necessary to produce the physics to get the air going in the dogtrot. Here is a link to a study done on a dog trot not far from us by some students from Berkley that has detailed measurements and explains how the air thing works, interesting ready. Even on a still day, an open dogtrot has a breeze (which is why, if the grid ever goes done, I will be reopening our dogtrot hallway).

http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/vit...trot_high2.pdf

[TedH71]

I've always liked dogtrot cabins.

[GaMntHomestead]

Thanks RebelDigger, I'm going to check out that study right now!

[ErinP]

If you research passive cooling, there are several designs that will cool a house in a similar fashion.
A two-story with a central stairway down to the basement. Open the upstairs windows and basement and it'll draw cool air up the stairway like a chimney.

[Freya]

Originally Posted by GaMntHomestead

I know this thread is 4 years old, but I was wondering if the OP got a dogtrot cabin/house built. Or if Glazed, the fist one to reply to the OP, has finished the one she said they were building. I am wanting to build one for our land in the North GA Mnts and am always wanting to see actual dogtrot cabins/houses, plans, drawings, links...ect. :-)

Try pm'ing both of them with a ink to this thread and ask nicely for an update.

[Maura]

I've done the basement cooling. Put a fan in an upstairs window blowing out until the cool air has come upstairs. Trees on the west side of the house also help.