Athens, Ga premier custom home design and build

Front of house from above.

Front of house from courtyard.

Courtyard water detail.

Serpentine retaining wall from courtyard.

Back of house from below.

Cantilevered porch on west end of house.

Screen porch and deck on back of house.

Custom cast hardware.

Front doors in curly cherry with applied twig casing.

Cast bronze backplate.

Stair tree

Free-standing, tapered, stone chimney.

Kitchen sink facing courtyard.

Wormy maple cabinets with organic eastern cedar crown.

Kitchen island artifact display case-walnut top and eastern cedar frames with sycamore bark panels.

View of dining room and pantry cabinet.

Dining table in red cedar with applied twig apron and natural yellow cedar crotch pedastal.

UGA arch sideboard in adirondack style.

Beamwork in living room ceiling.

Hammered-copper, serpent handrail on wrought iron twig balustrade.

Loft handrail of naturally grown tree yokes with twig handrail.

Master bedroom fireplace.

Stair tree with poplar bark clad wall behind.

Bowfront master bath vanity.

Claw footed tub in master bath.

Extraordinary Log Cabin in Walton County, GA

This client was special. He wanted the last house he would ever build to be a log cabin. He needed someone with the creativity, craftsmanship, and knowledge to interpret and create his one-of-a-kind home. We explored the heritage of log cabins from the Adirondacks and the beautiful old national park lodges out West. While on vacation, my client visited the Adirondack Museum in New York, which inspired the kitchen design.

Exceptional resources were essential to interpreting the Adirondack style in a native Georgian landscape. I found a small group of log workers in British Columbia that build cabins while keeping the character of the trees in their logs. Their crafted logs were used throughout the entire home. A neighbor reported that lightening had struck an ancient poplar in their yard, peeling the bark off completely, allowing us to use native bark for wall covering.

A totally original design, inside and out, the entire home was handcrafted with a well-coordinated team of subcontractors. A blacksmith made the house jacks; door hardware are custom bronze castings; woodworkers made furniture for the kitchen, dining room table, wet bar, and sideboard, display cabinets, and bathroom cabinets; stonemasons built the fieldstone fireplace and an outdoor serpentine retaining wall resembling an eastern diamond back rattlesnake.