Hornby Island Hippy Log Construction

Anyone who's been to Hornby has seen that almost every building has some sort of driftwood built into it. It makes good sense, though. Use what's cheap or free when you can.

Our house now fits in a bit better to the Hornby Island theme. Anyone who's been following our 'blog knows that we've been building an extension onto our house. My design of this new wing calls for a 9' overhang over a covered deck outside the front door. We decided that beach logs would be a perfect post to support this over hang. We took our trusty log carrier (thanks Stringfellow!) down to the beach and gathered up 3 of the most interesting logs that we could find and still transport.

The deck will be a 2 level affair. I decided to do this by putting the joists on half of the deck on TOP of the beams and inset the joists inside the beams on the other half.

We first laid out, dug, and poured the footings. Then we built and installed the main deck beams. The beach logs sit on top of the deck beams, more or less over the footings. The roof beams sit on top of the notched driftwood and on top of the top plate of the wall on the other end. Rafters will get notched and sit atop of the roof beams.

The above photo shows what we've done so far. Below is a slide show showing more detail on how it all came together.