In their huge book of information and ideas, Lindal Cedar Homes explain their building approach:
" . . . cedar's beauty is more than skin deep; it is also one of Nature's most perfect building materials. Pound for pound, it is as strong as steel, with remarkable insulating properties and a natural resistance to weather, decay, pests, and climatic extremes that assures a lifetime of low maintenance and high value."
s advantage of the wood's strength and glowing good looks. By freeing the walls from bearing any structural load, post and beam opens up all kinds of interior possibilities, including an airy, spacious design that showcases the cedar and lets you arrange interior walls, doors and windows to meet your most personal plans."
Lindal offers custom designs as well as a wide array of other plans. Three custom houses are shown on the next several screens, followed by a sampling of other designs.
Town & Country offers cedar homes, custom-designed from scratc
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1992 Town & Country Cedar Homesss WA (Both)
Town & Country offers cedar homes custom-designed from scratch or adapted from one of their many plans. They describe the construction process as follows:
"After the wood for your custom home is kiln dried, it's carefully cut into timbers exactly the size and dimension called for by your plans. Since there is little waste, we save money, and so do you . . ."
"At our plant, your home is assembled according to your custom plan . . . Since it is constructed inside, we minimize weather damage to wood, or hold-ups due to inclement weather.""
The four-bay structure on the north contains the living room, kitchen, and second-level guest bedroom floating within screened walls. The z-shaped arrangement of the building works with the existing oak trees to create two distinctive courtyards: an entry court defined by the open car pavilion, and a river court on the east defined by the screened pavilion.
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1992 Paul Hester (Photographer)
Lake/Flato Architects, Inc.
The stone living room within the screened building forms a wall to the cold winter wind and captures the cool south-easterly breezes in the summer.
Three (3) acres of natural shrub overlooking Vineyard Sound
Three (3) bedroom, 1600 square foot weekend house
Exposed wood frame on point foundations
Cedar siding, post-and-beam framing, EPDM roofing
Electric baseboard heating
Robert Lawson, structural: Alvin Cooke, custom steel and
brass work
Doyle Construction
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Paul Warchol
Steven Holl Architects
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Lake/Flato Architects, Inc.
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tubes are mounted on the roof of the living room to exhaust hot air and bring in light.
Roof ventilators and light tubes are mounted on the roof of the living room to exhaust hot air and bring in light. The spacious nature of the industrial buildings allows for an elegant collage of cement plant parts and natural materials.
The entry also serves as the center of movement throughout the site -- a place from which one can proceed to the garden or the house, to a formal or informal order, to a public or private domain..
The final design shows the steel building broken into three parts. The narrow central building, clad in metal, contains the master bedroom, library, utility, and open dog-run entry. The open three-bay structure on the south is the garage and farm implement building.
"Lindal's unique system of post and beam construction takes advantage of the wood's strength and glowing good looks. By freeing the walls from bearing any structural load, post and beam opens up all kinds of interior possibilities, including an airy, spacious design that showcases the cedar and lets you arrange interior walls, doors and windows to meet your most personal plans."
Lindal offers custom designs as well as a wide array of other plans. Three custom houses are shown on the next several screens, followed by a sampling of other designs.
". . . Over the past 35 years, Julius Kowalski, Production Manager, has personally had a hand in over 4,000 fine wood homes. By comparison, a local builder who erects 12 homes a year will have the experience of building only about 480 homes in his entire lifetime."
Whenever possible, existing trees and vegetation have been preserved. When the spectator stands in front of the building, the first layer is natural forest, the second layer is a glass block wall with conventional shuttered windows, the third layer is more trees and bushes (behind the glass wall), and the fourth layer is an internal courtyard of still more forest.
In their huge book of information and ideas, Lindal Cedar Homes explain their building approach:
" . . . cedar's beauty is more than skin deep; it is also one of Nature's most perfect building materials. Pound for pound, it is as strong as steel, with remarkable insulating properties and a natural resistance to weather, decay, pests, and climatic extremes that assures a lifetime of low maintenance and high value."
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