Leadership

Just as we realize building homes really is about the people inside the homes, we hope you’ll feel the same about our company. Blue Ridge Log Cabins is more than a company—it’s about people who care.

Milton A. (Chip) Smith, Jr.
Owner and President

With over 30 years of experience in manufacturing, construction, and sales, Chip Smith’s passion and vision for Blue Ridge Log Cabins has been the driving force to his company’s meteoric growth over the last six years, propelling the firm to become recognized by homeowners, trade media and competitors as an industry leader nationwide.

Our goal has been to revolutionize the log home industry. “We knew if we could build log homes faster, more efficiently, and with a higher quality than had ever been done in the past, we could help more people realize their dream of owning a log home.” -Chip Smith

In 2003, after several years of small but incremental growth, Chip joined the organization and partnered with the founder of Blue Ridge Log Cabins, Earl Taylor. In January 2004, Chip acquired Taylor’s portion of the company and within three years, Blue Ridge Log Cabins was ranked in INC Magazine among an elite handful of companies named “Fastest Growing, Privately-held Companies in America” for two consecutive years (2008 and 2009).

In February of 2009, Chip was recognized by the local Chamber of Commerce as the “2009 Business Person of the Year.” His company has also received the Better Business Bureau’s “Gold Star Award” twice for having zero complaints for three consecutive years.

A lifelong resident of Spartanburg, he is passionately committed to being a personal and corporate community partner. Among the firm’s many community sponsorships and programs, Blue Ridge Log Cabins was instrumental in leading the renovation of the Glenn Springs Academy (formerly Spartanburg County Boys Home), which houses young boys from 5-17 who are abandoned or abused. Several log homes that would house up to 28 boys were donated to launch the project.

Chip has served on numerous local boards and is currently the Vice-Chairman for the Spartanburg County Commission on Higher Education. He was honored in 2007 by the University of South Carolina – Upstate with the University’s coveted Alumni of the Year award.

Chip and his wife Laura have three children (24, 22, and 19).

Click here to view Chips’s Small Business Person of the Year Award »