Wade Hampton House Porch
The porch columns and railings of the home’s porch are made from locust trees.
Wade Hampton Covered Porch
The bark has been preserved to further enhance the rustic look as does the house’s cedar shake roof.
Wade Hampton House Façade
The texture and color of this bark complements the rugged indigenous mountain rock, adding more texture to the façade.
Wade Hampton House Exterior
This stone and shake mountain house in North Carolina serves as a family retreat for golf, hiking, and entertaining during these months.
Wade Hampton House Driveway
The house’s high elevation provides cool breezes and long vistas of distant rocky peaks.
Wade Hampton House Exterior Detail
The skin of the house is composed of large sheets of tree bark that have been steamed into flat sheets.
Wade Hampton Home Foyer
In an effort to create an all-wood look for the interior, reclaimed wood planks and massive hand-hewn beams from old barns were used extensively on the walls and ceilings.
Wade Hampton Living Room
The home’s many fireplaces are lined with granite instead of firebrick and have monolithic slabs of stone above the firebox openings.
Wade Hampton House Dining Room
The dining room's soft white painted plank walls are a stark contrast to the high ceilings covered in reclaimed wood planks and hand-hewn beams. The resulting feel is one of causal elegance.
Wade Hampton Home Staircase
Even the staircase railing makes use of log timbers.
Wade Hampton House Staircase Landing
At the top of the timber staircase, a spacious landing benefits from natural light and reclaimed plank walls & ceilings.
Wade Hampton House Detail
All the floors are made of wide plank heart-of-pine with cracks and imperfections carefully preserved for their charm.
Wade Hampton House Breakfast Room
The breakfast room opens to the rear porch, perfect for taking in the mountain view over morning coffee.
Wade Hampton House Pantry
No trip to the mountains would be complete without the family’s dogs. So, in the pantry, concealed under a counter of rough cut wood, the home incorporates a specially designated area for the dog’s beds.
Wade Hampton House Bedroom
Painted plank ceilings and soft hued walls give the upstairs bedroom airy feel. A nook by the window provides the perfect spot for a reading nook.
Wade Hampton House Guest Bedroom
A guest bed is placed in a window-lined nook to give guests the sense of being in an elegant tree house over looking the forest below.
Wade Hampton House Master Suite
Exposed beams and a stone fireplace makes the master suite a welcome retreat.
Wade Hampton House Family Room
Reclaimed wood planks and massive hand-hewn beams from old barns make this room feel like a rustic escape from the world.
Wade Hampton House Forest View
A fireplace and ample room make the covered porch the ideal location to take in the forest view
Wade Hampton House Outdoor Fireplace
The covered porch is built of locust logs and is the focus of evening dinners by the stone fireplace..