The dock’s cleats became coat hangers.Ī soaking tub offers rest and relaxation in the master bath. Salvaged pieces of Dave and Heather’s former boat dock destroyed by Hurricane Florence were repurposed into a bench in the laundry room. That barn was our lineage and now we get to keep it going.” “Here I am running my hands over it, saying ‘Look at the grain!’ The farm has been in our family forever. “My dad said, ‘So what are you going to do with all this old junk wood?’” laughs Dave.
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In the master bedroom, a headboard is made of the Pennsylvania barn’s siding that Dave’s dad planned to throw out. The floating vessel sink base in the powder room is made of the reclaimed American chestnut, as is the fireplace mantel, the kitchen hood, and a beam underneath the staircase. I would say, ‘Dave, we need this, and this.’” “I literally stalked the barn for a long while. “You can’t find American chestnut anymore because there was a blight that killed everything,” says Heather. “We went all through my parents’ barn, this gorgeous old pole barn built in 1865, we found all this American chestnut wood just sitting up in the rafters,” Dave says. During construction, Heather and Dave took a trip to Dave’s family farm in Pennsylvania and discovered a gold mine.
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The low-slope roof on the porch combined with the steeper pitch on the main house create that farmhouse vernacular.”īlack framed windows and glass doors bring in modern touches and natural light. “The wrap-around porch is signature of a country farmhouse. “I definitely pulled from my background with the design I grew up on a 500-acre farm near Charlotte,” says Thompson, owner and residential designer of Thompson Design Build. Like Dave and Heather, architect Cory Thompson grew up in a rural area. The fireplace mantel, staircase beam and kitchen hood accent are reclaimed American chestnut wood from Dave’s family farm in Pennsylvania.