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2010 Specialty Project up to $30,000
Specialty Category Trim/Millwork
In keeping with the spirit of home-as-vacation-lodge we created the feel of a roomy rustic cabin. A space the Owners could step into and know they were not just home but at home.
When an electrical fire destroyed their 1940’s era ranch, the homeowners wanted to create an interior space that would be the perfect extension of their personalities. They were outdoors people—hunters and Harley bikers who spent weekends and vacations outside—and they wanted that feeling of open air as part of their daily lives. No stuffy dens. No dark kitchens. And certainly nothing that you would expect to find inside an unassuming ranch.
To give the outdoorsy log cabin look, exposed cedar beams overhead and cedar extensions, casing, and baseboards were installed .
The great room, the place we wanted most to resemble a hunting lodge, is defined by its cedar log wall at one end, three-foot high cedar wainscoting, and a Valley Forge fieldstone fireplace with a raised limestone hearth and mantle. To blend the receptacle plates were constructed out of cedar and fit between the grooves. Bruce pre-finished hardwood flooring and the staining of masonite doors to give the appearance of wood creates the illusion of bringing the exterior wooded landscape inside.
The trick was to make the interior so personal, so rustic that you could forget where you were.
When you love the outdoors and you want to reflect that in your home, natural light is the best way to invite all of it inside. Throughout the house, we installed Terratone Andersen windows with natural wood interiors and matching grills between the panes. Earthtones were used to give the home an outdoorsy log cabin look, from the crown moldings to the staining of the fiberglass doors and trim.