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Before finishing their new Okanagan Valley home, a B.C. family set fire to it. Specifically, homeowner Jon Friesen and his father David took the house’s siding – big boards of Douglas fir – and torched each piece to give it a charred, blackened surface. This sounds radical, but is an ancient practice that serves a …
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Will Gamble Architects has updated a house in west London with an extension modelled on a Japanese tea house. Burnt House is an extension to a Victorian house in Fulham featuring a charred wood window seat and gridded glazing. Its design is based on the shoji screen, a facade or room divider in traditional Japanese architecture and …
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Whether you’re ready to build a new wood deck, furniture, or wood wall paneling—or aim to spruce up existing ones—you’ll ultimately want both beauty and longevity. While chemical preservatives can be applied to untreated wood to prolong its life, and stain or paint can enhance visual appeal, these time-consuming treatments must be undertaken separately. So …
ON THE WINDSWEPT southern side of Martha’s Vineyard, at the end of a rural road that emerges from a dark copse of oak trees, sit two austere, inky-black farmhouse-style buildings — a studio and a private residence — that compose Chilmark House. Designed by the New Haven, Conn., firm Gray Organschi Architecture with Aaron Schiller, founder of …
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