Eestipod Lifestyle - Affiliated Agent for Kontio
Kontio are different! Kontio.
The worlds largest massive wood home builder produce log homes and buildings that can, by design, look nothing like a timber log building, or at least a conventional timber log building.
Smoothing your route through Planning Permission
When embarking on the exciting journey of designing a log home, the anticipation, even if you are a professional, is often tempered by the looming challenge of planning permission. Whether it is a family or retirement home, a holiday let, or a commercial building, navigating the intricacies of your local authorities planning processes can be daunting. However, choosing Kontio log buildings can simplify and smooth the path through the complex maze of planning permission. In this brief overview, we look the advantages offered to the private client or professional.
How Kontio are Different
Kontio, like all of its competition, offer log homes with the traditional castellated corners, this can be seen in the top image featuring Aurea, a large family home designed for clients retaining the traditional feature of castellated corner and wall joints.
Other than for a holiday let set in a wooded area in a rural location, pushing this building successfully through into a more urban environment is going to be somewhat difficult to say the least.
Removing the Traditional
Now look at the second image and the difference is immediately clear, gone are the castellated corner and wall joints, it is a building that is still every bit a log building but the design now looks like a conventional home that would be a welcome addition in any urban or city area.
Hill House EX125 uses a log system unique to Kontio - SmartLog, this log is non-settling and allows for greater design freedom, on looks alone it should pass muster in meeting planning approval with its conventional visuals.
What are Planning Departments Looking For?
To prioritise designs that are functional, sustainable, contextually appropriate, and enhance the overall quality of the built environment. They assess proposals based on factors like site layout, density, character, appearance, and impact on surrounding areas, ensuring developments align with local planning policies and contribute positively to the community.
One of the key factors looked for now is sustainability and here Kontio can outshine just about any other method of construction.
The Traditional View of a Timber Log Building
The Chalet style timber log building offering massive timber logs with the traditional castellated corner, wall and floor joints.
This type of building has been brought into 21st century by use of laminated timber technology delivering greater stability and performance but the chances of easing such a design through UK planning, especially into more urban environments is slim.
River House (featured) is a Kontio building and a perfect holiday let, set in wooded areas and as a holiday let it is more likely to see a successful route through planning.
Kontio's Unique Design Solution
We might use the term here, "chalk and cheese" such is the difference in design, Koivuhaka featured here, still very much a massive wood timber log building but one with an obvious difference in design - no castellated corner, wall or floor joints.
Koivuhaka, by any measure, looks just like a typical architect designed building (designed in fact by Kontio's own architects) - it still has to progress through the UK Planning process but its cleaner lines will most certainly help, it's easy to see Koivuhaka in a town or city centre setting.
A Stunning Retirement Home or Holiday Let
From our extensive Glass House Collection, Glass House 80 could bring a unique offering to your sites portfolio. Clearly different by design, flooded with light and to a quality that is a cut above typical offerings.
If you are an architect then the Glass House Collection could be the perfect solution as a retirement home being on the one level throughout with all of the health benefits of natural sunlight and energy saving too reducing lighting bills and using a material that is sustainable to the core.
Nalle - Garden Buildings with a Difference
Not to be confused with other, so called "log cabins", Kontio's collection of buildings use laminated log technology and are designed for year round use and built to last, with the minimum of maintenance for 70 years or more.
Take Nalle, available in 6 different sizes, featured here is Nalle 40 offering 40 square metres of internal accommodation, including a galleried bedroom.
For the larger garden, as a holiday let or even set into holiday parks delivering the log cabin experience - log inside, logs outside, perfect for smaller families and groups.