‘Contour Project’ Views of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia The Contours were starting a new chapter in their lives, retiring from California and wanting a place in the Virginia Piedmont where they could work; he could jam with his musician friends...
‌they could entertain and be close yet visually separate from the neighboring communities, including nearby Roanoke. They also desired a space where their children could have a commodious place to visit.
The existing early 1800s cabin on the property was inspirational, but not functional for their needs, recalls Peter LaBau, their regionally based architect. It wasn’t salvageable, “but did have exposed stone on the foundation and a rambling look with older and newer pieces joined, and that really moved them," he says.
The building materials were also chosen to evoke a feeling of age and accumulation. The structure is timber with steel roof spans, and the look of structural stone is created from a cultured stone exterior finish that came in at $3 a foot. “This stuff gets better all the time,” LaBau extolled. “And we set it without grout so that it looks dry laid.”
A major factor in making the home appear as if it had evolved over generations was the look of the exterior siding. “When Erin first came to me, she brought photographs of Western structures with the once-paintednow-faded look, which they really wanted,” LaBau says. “And it was totally fortuitous that we discovered Harvest Timber Specialty Products and the authentic appeal of the Windswept Weathered Wood siding.”
“I wanted to use reclaimed materials on the cladding. But for an exterior application, I was really reluctant to use something that wouldn’t last. “The siding from Harvest Timber Specialty Products, though, is harvested from dead or standing dead timber chronicling a powerful Eco-Story”.
So instead of fueling the massive forest fires we’ve been seeing out West, this timber sequesters that accumulated carbon. They mill it and give it a textured surface and treat it so that the wood can be re-coated in the future and will last for many years. We chose three different colors for each of the separate building sections to achieve the look the client wanted.�
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