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Wade Hampton House

This stone and shake mountain house in North Carolina serves as a family retreat for golf, hiking, and entertaining during these months. The house’s high elevation provides cool breezes and long vistas of distant rocky peaks.

The skin of the house is composed of large sheets of tree bark that have been steamed into flat sheets. The texture and color of this bark complements the rugged indigenous mountain rock, adding more texture to the façade. The porch columns and railings of the home’s porch are made from locust trees. The bark has been preserved to further enhance the rustic look as does the house’s cedar shake roof.

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. Even the staircase railing makes use of log timbers.

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The home’s many fireplaces are lined with granite instead of firebrick and have monolithic slabs of stone above the firebox openings. All the floors are made of wide plank heart-of-pine with cracks and imperfections carefully preserved for their charm. 

 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.

Stepping out of the house to the rear deck and porch one is immediately struck by the beauty of the mountain views. The covered porch is built of locust logs and is the focus of evening dinners by the stone fireplace.

Hewn logs are woven into a decorative lattice detail that runs from top of column to top of column. Sitting on this porch at night, one can hear the sound of tree frogs calling their mates while the hoots and calls of owls fill the air.
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The porch columns and railings of the home’s porch are made from locust trees.

The bark has been preserved to further enhance the rustic look as does the house’s cedar shake roof.

The texture and color of this bark complements the rugged indigenous mountain rock, adding more texture to the façade.

This stone and shake mountain house in North Carolina serves as a family retreat for golf, hiking, and entertaining during these months.

The house’s high elevation provides cool breezes and long vistas of distant rocky peaks.

The skin of the house is composed of large sheets of tree bark that have been steamed into flat sheets.

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.

The home’s many fireplaces are lined with granite instead of firebrick and have monolithic slabs of stone above the firebox openings.

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.

Even the staircase railing makes use of log timbers.

At the top of the timber staircase, a spacious landing benefits from natural light and reclaimed plank walls & ceilings.

All the floors are made of wide plank heart-of-pine with cracks and imperfections carefully preserved for their charm.

The breakfast room opens to the rear porch, perfect for taking in the mountain view over morning coffee.

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.

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.

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.

Exposed beams and a stone fireplace makes the master suite a welcome retreat.

Reclaimed wood planks and massive hand-hewn beams from old barns make this room feel like a rustic escape from the world.

A fireplace and ample room make the covered porch the ideal location to take in the forest view

The covered porch is built of locust logs and is the focus of evening dinners by the stone fireplace..