This 10,300 square foot, four story mountain home was designed by minimalistic contempory architect Dale Jones Evens of DJE Architecture in Australia. This custom home's straight forward design is actually a complex structure from a engineering standpoint defying tranditional timber framing and mountain architecture and creating awesome living spaces within. Timber reclaimed from the abandoned Lucky Boy and Greyhound mines near Stanley, Idaho is utilized throughout as structural members and clads the great room fireplace and the "shaft wall" of the home's "core" stairwell. Reclaimed timber peices were selectively chosen and placed in order for the owners and home's visitors to awe over it's weathered beauty, rusty bolts holes and knotches and cuts created from it's original carpentars over a century ago. Other unique stratigically placed and finished features of this home include a ground level entrance with two large black solid oak "suspended" doors mirroring each other at oppsite ends of the stone cladded entrance hall creating a optical illusion as visitors enter from either side; a large catilevered sitting area in the master suite that over looks the great room and provides the same stunning views one can enjoy from the great room level; floating black timber stair threads with a glass ceiling peering through to the master suite's ceiling; a contemporary wine cellar with aluminum shelving and a window to allow visitors to peer in as they arrive from the basement level entrance; and a kitchen with a hidden pantry and a wet bar designed, built off site and installed by Studio Becker of San Fransico. A comlex automation system integrates a whole home radiant interior heat and snowmelt system for all terraces, walkways and the driveway along with the entertainment and security systems and all other plumbing and mechanical systems of the home.
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