Method of Making Log Cabin Structure Using Landscape Timbers

Abstract

A method of placing a façade onto a building structure in order to give the building structure the appearance of a log cabin, wherein the façade is comprised of faux logs or pseudologs attached to the exterior of a conventionally built structure. The pseudologs used to form the facade are made from longitudinally ripped landscape timbers. When affixed to the exterior of a conventionally constructed building, the building's appearance is virtually indistinguishable from that of a traditional log cabin structure.

1 . A method of placing a façade onto a building structure having a plurality of walls, wherein the façade gives the appearance of a log cabin, the method comprising the steps of:
 a) providing a plurality of unfinished landscape timbers, each landscape timber having two opposite flat surfaces and two opposite convex surfaces; 
 b) cutting each of the plurality of landscape timbers longitudinally on a perpendicular line between the two flat surfaces to create a plurality of half-timbers, each half-timber having a flat surface opposite a convex surface; 
 c) attaching the flat surface of one of the plurality of half-timbers to a solid two-dimensional structure, the solid two-dimensional structure constituting one of the walls of the building structure; 
 d) attaching the flat surfaces of additional half-timbers to the solid two-dimensional structure so that half timbers extend in a continuous line from one edge of the solid two-dimensional structure to an opposite edge of the solid two-dimensional structure; 
 e) attaching the flat surfaces of still additional half-timbers to the solid two-dimensional structure so that a plurality of rows of half-timbers are attached to the solid two-dimensional structure, each row extending in a continuous line from one edge to an opposite edge of the solid two-dimensional structure, and wherein each succeeding row of half-timbers is immediately adjacent to the previous row of half-timbers; and 
 f) repeating steps a), b), c), d), and e) for each wall of the building structure. 
 
     
     
         2 . A method as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the solid two-dimensional structure constituting one of the walls of the building structure includes at least one window formed therein, and wherein the plurality of half-timbers attached to the solid two-dimensional structure are cut so as not to cover the at least one window. 
     
     
         3 . A method as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the solid two-dimensional structure constituting one of the walls of the building structure includes at least one door formed therein, and wherein the plurality of half-timbers attached to the solid two-dimensional structure are cut so as not to cover the at least one door. 
     
     
         4 . A method as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein two adjoining walls of the plurality of walls of the building structure meet at an angle, and wherein the ends of each of the plurality of half-timbers attached to said two walls which meet at an angle are mitered at the meeting end so as to form a tight connection therebetween. 
     
     
         5 . A method as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein each row of half-timbers is attached to the solid two-dimensional structure with a gap between that row and each adjacent row of half-timbers. 
     
     
         6 . A method as set forth in  claim 5 , wherein each gap is filled with a chinking material. 
     
     
         7 . A method as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein each solid two-dimensional structure constituting one of the walls of the building structure has the plurality of half timbers attached thereto at a location remote from a building site of the building structure, thereby constituting a pre-fabricated wall, and further wherein each pre-fabricated wall is subsequently transported to the building site. 
     
     
         8 . A building structure giving the appearance of a log cabin constructed in accordance with the method set forth in  claim 1 .