TMAD is excited to see this significant house near completion. The image to the left is from a vantage similar to an earlier post. It is hard to image the wall that once occupied the beam's locale and not experience the great room opening to the dining room and kitchen. Also, the other steel beam at the mid point of the wood rafters was once a larger wood beam with spindly columns supporting it. Replacing the wood beam with steel allowed us to eliminate the spindly columns and "free" the massive blue stone fireplace from those, yes, spindly columns...which were just inches away.

The other images with this post are fairly self explanatory. I do want to draw attention to the side door image below. It may seem insignificant but it isn't. Another thing we did was "pierce" the primary vaulted volume with a perpendicular secondary hallway that is open at both ends. You can see the other opening WAY down the hall as it passes behind the stone fireplace. Not very feng shui but where once this house was an interior warren, it now opens and relates to the outside while maintaining its integrity as a significant residence designed by an early career professional with connections to FLW. A bit tangential, but worthy of mentioning.

Lake Cabin by Hutchison & Maul Architecture complete!