Cypress Bend: Our Dream

Several years ago, Peggy and I went on a great ski trip to Utah. We visited several resorts, Alta, Brighton, Park City, Snowbird, Solitude, but by far our favorite was..... Deer Valley.

The reason it was our favorite is because in Deer Valley, you get to ski through all of these beautiful residential neighborhoods which multi-million dollar homes. And most of these were LOG homes. They were stunning. I remember Peggy and myself sitting in Stein Ericson Lodge sipping some wine and talking about how awesome it would be to have a log home. That was the start of our dream – Cypress Bend.

We first considered the type of logs we wanted, such as Cypress, Oak, Cedar, Pine, etc. We chose Cypress since our property is covered with several large Cypress trees. This led to our selecting Suwannee River as our log supplier.

It took seven years from dream to reality – but now, every day we get to see more and more of our dream home come alive. It will probably be November before we move in, but like all goals, the journey is even better than the destination. We’re learning a lot, and loving seeing what can happen when you plant a seed and watch it grow every day.