Log home has contemporary flair and Bristol Mountain view

How hard could it be? Everyone grew up playing with Lincoln Logs. This was just Lincoln Logs writ large, right?

Ajai and Jyoti Nemani, who love to ski, had a friend who owned a small log home with a big view of Bristol Mountain. When he moved out of state, the couple jumped at the chance to buy the house.

Their plan was to fix it up and build an addition (deteriorating logs and lots of burrowing bees persuaded them). Eventually, they realized it would be more practical to build a new, custom log home instead.

Only theyd never done anything like this before. Ajai, a physician, and Jyoti, an ultrasound technician, arent exactly general contractors.

But Ajai was determined. It took two years with lots of doubling back, rescheduling, some squabbling and correcting things on the fly to get the job done.

Building with logs wasnt as simple as I thought, Ajai admits. Everything looks great on paper.

The couple worked with a family friend, architect and real estate agent Maria Furgiuele. And they hired Timberframe Inc. in Canandaigua; Rick Wyffels, owner of Wyffels Log & Timberframe Homes in Canandaigua and an independent representative for Real Log Homes; and Peter Van Scott of Van Scott Builders in Palmyra to build the new 2,600-square-foot home.

After construction began, Jyoti realized that when she stood in the kitchen, part of the gable wall hid her view of Bristol Mountain. So Timberframe Inc. tore the piece out and built the more open timber-framed style gable instead.

I was a pain in the butt, Jyoti says with a laugh.

But the change made all the difference in bringing the beauty of the outdoors inside, and the soaring, 20-foot floor-to-ceiling gable in front is a highlight of the home.

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Log home has contemporary flair and Bristol Mountain view