precisioncraft Takes Top Honors for Outstanding Custom Log Home Design
Source: Market Wire (press release) ()
Highlighted Links Log Home Plans Log Home Awards
MERIDIAN, ID–(Marketwire - November 13, 2007) - There really is “no place like home” — if
“home” is an award-winning custom log edifice by PrecisionCraft and sister
company Mountain Architects. Working in tandem, the pair nearly managed a
clean sweep of the available prizes for excellence in custom log home designs at the 2007
national showcase hosted by NAHB’s Building Systems Council in Hilton Head,
South Carolina.
The two custom log homes, Eagle’s Nest and Hermosa Vista, both top dramatic
mountain sites and rise above the national competition for the brilliance
of their creative combinations of log and timber frame construction.
The Eagle’s Nest log home
plan has been turning heads since the custom log home design premiered
in 2006, when the home was voted “Top Design” and “Editor’s Pick” by Log
Home Living. Built at Tamarack Resort in Donnelly, Idaho, Eagle’s Nest
unites the best of log home and frame construction in square milled log
walls and custom timber frame trusses. Climbing the spiral staircase to the
unique turret tower, or basking in the warmth of a two-story stone
fireplace in the vaulted great room, visitors admire the deft touches that
make this design a winner.
A variation on the Hermosa Vista floor
plan, the second PrecisionCraft-Mountain Architect collaboration tops a
9,200-foot peak, where the Sangre de Cristo Mountains afford a panoramic
vista. The home lives up to the dramatic setting, framing the spectacular
view with expansive banks of windows. The design merges dramatic with
pragmatic; the oversize windows were chosen with an eye for their green,
energy-saving capacity, as well as their beauty. Green log home design is a
feature for all PrecisionCraft homes. The Hermosa Vista interior is also a
visual treat, ingeniously juxtaposing the textures of cedar logs,
stucco, tile, glass and stone.
Both Eagle’s Nest and Hermosa Vista unite the traditional …