mountain home ideas
The kitchen’s earthy finishes continue the rustic-modern style. The hammered copper sink, wood accents and oil-rubbed bronze on the faucet, lighting and hardware add rustic patinas, while the white cabinets and white quartz counters keep things feeling clean and bright. “For the backsplash, my client knew she wanted something light but didn’t want typical white subway tile with dark grout. Instead we went for a warm gray porcelain backsplash with light grout,” Dorlini says. The backsplash adds shine and picks up the subtle marblelike veining in the countertops.
Behind barn doors. When an extra bedroom for guests isn’t a luxury you have at home, how about this for a clever way to host them in your living room? The doors can slide shut when the beds don’t need to be accessed. Custom barn doors can be pricey but may be a worthwhile investment if this is the perfect style for your room (and they look lovely with this wood paneling). Alternatively, look online for DIY barn door projects and hardware kits.
Montana fishing cabin - vaulted the ceiling in the great room and the master suite using scissor trusses, a construction method that eliminates the need for visible horizontal beams or a low, flat ceiling. “It’s an economical way to build a roof structure,” he says. long horizontal window behind the sofa placed high up the wall to preserve privacy, as that side of the home faces the main road.
Montana fishing cabin - The great room faces the lake; original had horizontal muntins, or strips that divide window panes into segments, so he designed the tall windows behind the wood-burning stove to echo that look. The floors and ceiling are clear-coated pine. “I’ve always gravitated toward Scandinavian mountain architecture: clean and simple,” Maphis says. “I kept that theme throughout.”
Montana fishing cabin - ladder leads to the sleeping loft.
Montana fishing cabin - Beyond the kitchen and past the entry is a small dining area
Montana fishing cabin - mud room
Montana fishing cabin - cabinetry is simple painted wood, topped by a composite countertop; range that is only 24 inches wide, which is on the smaller side. The duct above the upper cabinets on the left sucks up hot air from the range hood and deposits it outside. Maphis deliberately exposed the galvanized metal duct
Montana fishing cabin - adding foundation under old structure- To create a new foundation under the old cabin, workers dug out a crawl space under the shack, poured standard concrete footings and created a foundation of pressure-treated wood and plywood sheathing. They wrapped the buried portion of the foundation with membrane roofing material, which is used to keep water off a roof, then finished with a layer of 2-inch rigid insulation around the foundation block. “It’s a creative solution that will last almost like a standard concrete foundation would,” Maphis says. The new wing of the cabin got a standard concrete foundation.
Montana fishing cabin - covered the cabin with prefinished steel that has a texture that mimics the look of board-and-batten siding. Since the color is painted onto the siding and then run through an oven that bakes it into the material, it shouldn’t ever need to be repainted, Maphis says. The roof is corrugated metal.
Montana fishing cabin - Here’s the cabin after the renovation, photographed from the same angle. Maphis kept the fishing shack’s original shape and added a wing to the right, doubling its size to 1,056 square feet. Before the renovation, the cabin had one very small bedroom and one bath. Now it has three bedrooms, two baths and a sleeping loft.
Montana fishing cabin - The cabin, shown here, had no foundation, and there were mice in the walls. But, Maphis says, “my wife and I liked the charm of it.” The couple figured they’d do the minimum to get the cabin in working order for weekend stays. But then “We started spending time up there and we just loved it,” Maphis said. Plans changed to “Let’s just remodel it, add on, make it ours and make it right,” Maphis says.
exterior hardiboard painted a blue grey
alabama cabin canopy over front door and round window over door; dutch door
board and batten walls painted Grey Mist with dutch front door
paint BM Grey Mist
fishing cabin in Alabama
another view of screen back porch which attaches to living room with 3 french doors and master bedroom with dutch door
screened back porch addition
elegant and simple master bath
TV room adjacent to bunk bed room
neutral bedroom with dark wood furnishings
island and stools
fireplace and side windows with log walls
wood floor
white cabinets and burnt orange walls with wainscotting
mix of furnishings
separate garage
barn finish big sky montana
steel siding
white bedding
bunk room canvas walls and lantern lights
bunk room wall of storage
TV room chairs, piano and photo arrangement
fireplace stone and sofa style
homewood remodel family room sink area with corrugated backsplash and kohler trough sink
homewood remodel family room area bath sink area with corrugated metal back splash and kohler trough sink
homewood remodel office area california republic wood wall plack, fish handles on white cabinetry
homewood remodel whimsical wood and metal animal head sculptures, bear foot stool and sectional sofa
homewood remodel bunk room with light recess over each bed
homewood remodel with custom bunk beds note light over each bunk
homewood remodel with bath tub, window seat and wood floor
bunk room
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