Design
Choosing Your Design From Kontio.
Your 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 planning and building regulation contraints 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
Finalising 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 then 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.
Above - Bespoke log home, featuring SmartLog™ enhancing design options
Delivering Options
One Design - Two Flooplans
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.
Above - Glass House 126
Worth Knowing
Tips to reduce your Carbon Footprint, click the button right to find out how to plan your building to make full use of the range of benefits from your Kontio Log building.
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
Planning Guide
A Guide - Planning Permission
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.
Above - Internal of a nursery school, logs outside, logs inside.
Building Regulations Guide
A Guide - Building Regulations
Building regulations in the United Kingdom instruments or statutory regulations that seek to ensure that the policies set out in the relevant legislation are carried out. Building Regulations approval is required for most building work in the UK, domestic or commercial.
The requirements are set out in a range of Approved Documents, each categorised to a specific sector, such as electrical works, ventilation, etc.
We summarise them in our guide available by clicking on the button below but you can also access them online in full on the Governments website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/approved-documents
Worth Knowing
Reclaiming VAT
You can download our useful guide by clicking on the button below on what you can and what you cannot reclaim the VAT element in your build, as detailed under the DIY Housebuilders Scheme.
Included are tips where you are allowed reclaim VAT by, for example, building in storage where practical, rather than purchasing items such as wardrobes after completion, where the VAT cannot be reclaimed.