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Three recent homes, told honestly, the site challenges included. Full project books are available at the studio.
Perched at 3,100 feet with a 40-mile view of the Craggies, the Overlook demanded a steel-reinforced foundation cut into solid granite, and rewarded it with the best sunrise in Buncombe County. Twenty-six tons of native stone, a 24-foot glass wall, and a great-room truss raised in a single day.
Build Something Like ThisA full timber-frame home raised from Douglas fir bents cut in our Swannanoa shop, wrapped around a two-story fieldstone chimney. The owners asked for a house that would 'outlive the trees around it.' The oldest joinery technique we used dates to the 1700s; the geothermal system beneath it does not.
Build Something Like ThisEleven acres of pasture, a spring-fed pond, and a brief that read 'a farmhouse our grandkids will fight over.' Board-and-batten cedar, a standing-seam roof, a scullery kitchen behind the show kitchen, and a sleeping porch positioned for the evening breeze off Cane Creek.
Build Something Like ThisWe interviewed five builders in Asheville. Hearthstone was the only one who told us what our lot would really cost to build on, and then came in under it.
Whit & Caroline AldridgeThe Overlook at Town Mountain, completed 2024
