Design
Choosing Your Design From Kontio.
The search for the ideal Kontio design begins with understanding your specific circumstances and requirements.
Factors such as your family size, location, site and property characteristics, together with building regulations will help to drive you towards selecting the appropriate house model.
Consider functionality as well; imagine having breakfast on a sunny deck and waking up in a peaceful bedroom located in the most secluded part of your property. Identify your key daily activities to ensure that the Kontio design meets those needs.
We will work with you, your architect and Kontio's Experts to assist you in this process.
Above - Log Home Interior
Long Live Wood
Finding Your Design
Premium Quality
Bringing Your Designs to Life - Fulfilling Your Desire
All homes in the Kontio Collection can be adapted and modified to suit your own particular needs, or, you can go bespoke, working with us and your architect to reach a starting point in your journey to create your unique dream home.
Kontio love timber but the addition of Kontio SmartLog™ to the range of logs can have a dramatic effect on your design options. Kontio SmartLog™ delivers stability to a design which means that working with other materials is now a possibility.
Delivering Options
One Design - Two Solutions
The majority of Glass Buildings and Log Homes featured in Kontio's Collection offer optional floor layouts as here with Glass House 126. Selecting a style that is part of the Collection can save you money and time as the design, production and engineering has already been completed, having an alternative layout for a floor plan just increases your choices..
Left - Glass House 126
Worth Knowing
Finding an Architect?
The Royal Institute of British Architects is a global professional membership body driving excellence in architecture. They serve their members and society in order to deliver better buildings and places, stronger communities and a sustainable environment.
You will need an architect to guide you through the planning process, deal with the various regulatory processes and of course, to present the drawings required to support your application.
RIBA can help you to find a Practice, the more information you can provide, the better the match with your selected Practice.
Your Project
You can use our basic plans and images to present to RIBA explaining your needs.
Match
RIBA will match your needs with accredited practices.
Receive Responses
You will receive replies from interested practices, note your details are not shared.
Choose
Make your selection from the suggested practices and you are off to the home of your dreams.
Client Services
There are over 4,000 accredited Chartered Practices in the UK - RIBA can help you to find the right practice for you
Our Guide
A Guide - Planning Permission & Building Regulations
The planning process can seen to be something of a minefield but gaining approval for a timber log building should not be any more complicated than for any other type of building, be it brick, concrete, timber frame, etc.
Our helpful guide will take you through the Planning Process and provide useful pointers as to how to ensure first time success.
For log homes for the holiday sector the process is simpler from the perspective of Building Regulations and Building Control.
However, for family homes the process becomes more involved as Building Regulations and Building Control play a key role.
Left - Internal of a nursery school, logs outside, logs inside.