Saturday, August 4, 2007

Larry Schuster, Builder Extraordinaire


"Who's the best custom builder around here?" we had asked the locals, and Larry Schuster's name always came up first. We'd almost bought one of his houses a couple years earlier, and it was easy to see the quality craftsmanship in it. So we contacted him back in the fall of '05, and he agreed to build our house when we were ready. He normally does one house a year.

At the time he was finishing up a huge, multi-million-dollar log home in Noxon, which is about 20 miles north of us.

I just found out today that the home in Noxon will be featured in the November 2007 issue of "Log Home Living" magazine. Maybe there will be a picture of Larry. He'll be the one that looks like an old-time mountain man.

He's highly thought of throughout the building community up here. Today I had a powwow with Tom Wagler, our Mennonite cabinetmaker, and he told me they don't come any better than Larry. "He's a perfectionist," Tom related. "It may take him a little longer to complete the project because of that, but you can be absolutely certain that it's done right."