A modern farmhouse on a Kentucky ridgeline, designed as a private gathering space for family and guests.
The front of the house. White board-and-batten with a heavy timber-frame entry porch — a modern read on the regional vernacular. Stacked-stone column bases anchor the porch to the site.
Side porch detail. Heavy timber posts on stacked-stone bases, painted-dark soffit. The porch wraps the building's principal facades.
From the side patio, looking out across the property. The reason the building sits exactly where it sits.
A house designed not just to live in, but to gather in.
The great room. A clean gabled ceiling with exposed reclaimed beams, walls of windows to the pasture beyond, polished concrete floors throughout the main level.
Inside the great room, looking toward the bar wing. Trophy mounts climb the gable wall; a reclaimed-stone arch frames the transition between rooms.
Looking down on the great room from the upper loft — the full volume reads at once.
The floating stair. Cantilevered white-oak treads, frameless glass guard, no visible stringer.
Looking back from the stair toward the kitchen — reclaimed beams, glass, polished concrete in one frame.
The bar room. Reclaimed timber beams overhead, stamped-tin ceiling between, dark cabinetry under granite — a separate room with a separate character. The raised live-edge slab runs as a second tier above the bar.
The wet bar wing. Brick veneer, granite, dark cabinetry. The framed photograph above the sink shows the building under construction.
Bar detail. Butterfly inlays bridge natural splits in the slab — the maker's hand visible in every joint.
The live-edge top, close in. A single piece of figured wood, just past the doors to the porch.