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Barn-Style Home, Lakeside View
Barn-s yle ho e, lakeside view
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Michael and Lisa Shaw didn’t know the answer until a local designer brought it to life with the help of Columbus County’s agricultural roots.
“I’m usually heavily influenced by local buildings,” says Channing Glover, owner of Glover Designs based in Lake Waccamaw. “I draw a lot of inspiration from local farm buildings and barns, and try to interpret that into my architecture and adapt it into a modern living scenario.”
Inspiration began with a barn on Smyrna Road. The Shaws’ house is designed to mimic the lines of a traditional tobacco barn, but using modern technology.
One “traditional” aspect with a modern twist is the flooring. A raised concrete slab serves as both finish and foundation.
“We’re using the material for what it is,” he explains. “Down in the South, we’re inundated in humidity and mold, and a lot of moisture problems can be remedied by getting the house out of the ground, putting dirt in the foundation and pouring a slab.”
The flooring is finished with a coat of polyurethane. The house is raised approximately two feet on its dirt foundation from the ground,
which should prevent potential moisture problems found in crawl spaces, like mold and mildew.
It’s going up on the same property as the family’s former lake house, which had been there since the 1950s and repeatedly damaged by hurricane-related flooding.
After Florence, the family had to decide whether to renovate or start over on their forever home — including selling their permanent farm residence in Chadbourn.
“It was a big shift to move from the countryside and the house they’ve lived in and raised their three kids, but they wanted to move to the lake permanently, so that’s where the conversation started,” Glover adds.
To design the new home, he took loved aspects of the former lake house and emphasized them. A critical component was the lake view.
“We came back to that multiple times — the view of the water, and how many spaces take advantage of that view,” he says.
The open floor plan lends a view of the water and pier from the front door. Tall windows and sliding glass line the back of the house, along with a 12-foot porch accessible from living room or master bedroom.
Michael and Lisa stand in front of their front door with a view of the lake behind them. The porch ceiling is made of natural cypress wood specially planed for them by Pridgen Woodwork.
Glover’s design concept highlights aspects of a traditional barn to emphasize those vantage points.
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A tobacco barn on Smyrna Road in Whiteville inspired the framework for the house.
“The lakeside porch is our favorite part,” Lisa Shaw says. We’re really looking forward to the open concept, but the porch is going to be a highlight.”
The screened-in porch is large enough to serve several functions — including outdoor dining and the Shaw’s favorite bed swing — and allows a “seamless transition” from interior to exterior, another focal point for Glover.
“Their old house had a covered porch that ran the entire length of the house, so I added big sliding glass doors on the rear of the house, and a glass ‘lake room’ with a view from two sides for relaxing and taking in the lake.”
Another unique feature is the countertops, made from recycled glass.
Using Solid Concepts based in Charleston, S.C., Shaw visited a warehouse that recycles glass from downtown bars to pick
Michael and Lisa look at a quartz countertop sample that will coordinate with a custom counter- top for the island made from recycled glass by Solid Concepts in Charleston, S.C.
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Below, blue cabinets are being installed by Fowler Cabinet Shop in Clarendon. Above, the lake room and majority of rooms are painted “Nebulous White” by Sherwin Williams, which has a hint of blue that pairs with the blue and green glass chippings in the countertops.
what she wanted in various countertops, she explains.
The 9x4 kitchen island includes a mixture of quartz and Chardonnay-bottle chippings. The bathroom countertops feature a different glass.
“This process has been unique because I really tried to emulate a tobacco barn and pull out those forms,” Glover adds. “This is one of the only homes I’ve done that harkens back to old North Carolina tobacco barns…I think it resonates when you stand back and look from certain vantage points.”
“I think Channing is the one that got the inspiration, but we liked it when he came back to us,” Shaw says. “We tweaked it a little bit, but Channing and our teams have been a dream to work with.”
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General contractor - Jeffrey Sumner, with HERR , Inc. in Whiteville (910) 640-2607
Paint colors and design ideas were chosen with the help of Maggie Pinson with The Magnolia Project, LL C in Wilmington.
Find Glover Designs on Facebook, Instagram or Houzz, or contact Channing Glover at (910) 660-3606.
From left, Nathan, Lisa, Michael and Colin Shaw with Colin’s Boykin Spaniel, Jace, visit their home during construction. Daughter Carly is not pictured.
Both navy and white siding elements are made of fiber-cement, which Glover chose because it will weather well over the coming years. The roof is made of galvanized metal.
Channing Glover and his son Joshua stand in a tree house Glover built for him in their backyard in 2013. Top right is Glover’s sketch of the side project.
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