Frontier Log Homes is a family-owned custom log home builder in Montrose, Colorado. For nearly 50 years — since 1977 — we’ve designed and built custom log homes, timber-frame homes, and full mountain homes across the Western Slope, and shipped handcrafted log packages nationwide. 800+ homes, one family, and zero shortcuts.
Since 1977 · 800+ Homes Built · 5.0★ on Google · BBB A+ · Cover of Log Home Living
Frontier Log Homes is a family-owned custom log home builder based in Montrose, Colorado. Since 1977, homeowners across the Western Slope and the country have trusted us for handcrafted log homes, timber-frame and hybrid homes, full custom mountain homes, and log home kits. If you’re looking for a custom log home builder who can take your project from design to keys, here is what to know.
Frontier Log Homes has built custom homes from Montrose, Colorado since 1977. Nearly five decades later we’re still a family-owned custom log home builder on the Western Slope, and we’ve completed more than 800 custom homes — from off-grid cabins to luxury mountain estates.
What started as a log-home company has become a full custom-home builder. Today Frontier Log Homes is a licensed general contractor working in full-log, timber-frame, hybrid, and conventional construction — and we still hand-peel our logs the way we did in 1977.
Most log companies sell you a kit and wave goodbye at the property line. Frontier Log Homes is a different kind of custom log home builder — a licensed general contractor who can carry a custom home from first sketch to final walkthrough, or step in at any point between. Homeowners come to us for four things:
Hand-peeled, dried, and built to last generations.
Log warmth and character on a conventional budget.
Framed homes finished with log and timber accents.
Handcrafted log packages shipped nationwide with on-site assembly.
One accountable team. One point of contact — no finger-pointing between a “kit company” and a separate builder. Explore custom home building, our services, log cabin kits, and custom home design.
Six reasons buyers pick Frontier Log Homes over a kit seller or a general builder.
Our dry-log, chink-style method means your home won’t sag, gap, or settle like green-log builds. It stays true the day you move in and decades later.
Design, logs, foundation, framing, finish. We hold the whole build so you’re not juggling five separate companies.
Steep, remote, off-grid, or road-less? We’ve flown log packages in by helicopter. Difficult sites are our specialty, not our excuse.
Every plan on our site is a starting point. We build to your land, your budget, and your lifestyle — never a catalog.
Handcrafted log packages ship anywhere in the country, with freight and on-site assembly included.
One client came back three decades later to add on to the Arizona home we built them. We answer the phone long after the keys change hands.
Green (freshly cut) logs shrink as they dry — that’s what causes the settling, gaps, and cracked drywall you see in cheaper log homes. Frontier Log Homes builds with dried logs and a chink-style system engineered for movement. The result is a log home that stays tight, weather-sealed, and energy-efficient for the life of the home. It’s the difference between a log home that’s built and one that’s crafted.
Frontier Log Homes holds a 5.0★ rating on Google and Houzz, an A+ rating with the BBB, and a 2004 cover feature in Log Home Living magazine.
★ 5.0 Google · ★ 5.0 Houzz · BBB A+ · Log Home Living Cover 2004 · 800+ Homes · Since 1977
Frontier Log Homes is a family business, not a franchise. With this custom log home builder, your home is built by the same log craftsmen, carpenters, and designers who’ve done this for years — many for decades. When you call, you reach the people building your home, not a call center.
You don’t start with a contract to build. You start with a conversation. Most homeowners begin with a Design Contract — a low-pressure, fixed-scope agreement where we turn your land, budget, and ideas into a real, buildable plan. No pressure to break ground. No obligation to build with us. Just the least expensive insurance in the whole project: knowing exactly what you’re building, and what it costs, before you commit. Don’t have land yet? That’s fine — that’s often the best time to talk.
Turn-key general contracting across Colorado’s Western Slope — Montrose, Ridgway, Ouray, Telluride, and the surrounding mountains, within about 90 minutes of our Montrose shop. Log home kits and dry-in packages ship nationwide with on-site assembly.
Since 1977. We’re a family-owned builder based in Montrose, Colorado, with more than 800 custom homes completed across the country.
Yes. We build complete custom homes — log, timber frame, hybrid, and conventional — and offer turn-key general contracting across Colorado’s Western Slope.
No. Full-log is our heritage, but we also build timber-frame, hybrid, and conventional mountain homes, plus log home kits and dry-in packages shipped nationwide.
Turn-key within about 90 minutes of Montrose — including Montrose, Ridgway, Ouray, and Telluride. We ship log home kits nationwide.
Our dry-log, chink-style method prevents the settling and gaps common in green-log builds, we hand-peel our logs, and one accountable general contractor manages the entire build.
Start with a low-pressure Design Contract — a free first conversation, a fixed scope in writing, and no obligation to build.