By Jeff Eason, Reprinted from “Made in the High Country” Sept. 28, 2016 Since 1985, Mountain Construction has created buildings and homes that look like they are part of the Appalachian Mountain landscape. With creative use of natural construction materials, including locally sourced timber and stone, Mountain Construction in known far and wide for building […]
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Building Grid-Tied with Off-Grid Capability
We are Builders and Planners! Check out our website Photo Gallery to see the diversity of our work! Also check out our YouTube Channel and other links we have on our website!In recent years we have focused on keeping overhead down and still producing quality and creative projects. Our competition is generally less experienced and […]
Aging In Place-Designing Your Home for Your Future
Aging in Place Staying in your own home as you age can be cheaper and more pleasant than moving to a retirement facility. We have designed and remodeled many homes with that in mind. With some simple, inexpensive and attractive solutions we can help you stay home as you grow older. These changes will often […]
Hearthstone Timber Frame Homes
Timber framing is just the kind of traditional craft that we at Hearthstone specialize in. Meticulously practiced for centuries as the preferred method of building construction, the trade and traditions mostly died in the early 1900s as steel mills, high-production saw mills, wire nails, and mass production psychology replaced the art and craft of Timberframing, […]
Mountain Living: A Place for Modern-Day Pioneers
Reprinted from: Focus: A Newcomer’s Guide to the High Country, A Publication of the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce, 2013 edition. Between a generous number of companies and local architects, there is a wide variety of or businesses, everything is made with great respect to the environment. It is by honoring the area’s natural elements […]
A Mountain Peace
“A Mountain Peace” By Julie L. Semrau, Reprinted from Yippy Yi Yea Magazine, Fall 1994 A winding private road climbs up the side of a mountain overlooking scenic vistas of Wheeler and Taos mountains in the distance. Michael’s cabin, banked by sheltering pines on one side, glows with sunlight on the natural wood of its […]
Remodeling is Green Building
By Mark Kirkpatrick Reprinted from High Country Home Magazine and Resource Guide, Spring 2012 The mountains of North Carolina have been an attraction to many primary and secondary homebuyers since the turn of the last century, due to the cool mountain summers and lush scenery. Many wealthy industrialists and successful business people began to buy […]
Crafted to Perfection
by Emily White Reprinted from High Country Home Magazine and Resource Guide, Spring 2012 Mountain Construction claims to create art you can live in. “Well, it’s true,” boasts homeowner Bill Hunter about his mountain home atop Yonahlossee. One can verify this claim simply by looking at the outside of the home, adorned in natural […]
Adirondack, Craftsman Style and Rustic hand crafted homes
For more information about MOUNTAIN CONSTRUCTION and a free consultation CONTACT us.Adirondack, Craftsman Style and Rustic hand crafted homes using the natural beauty of wood to create a unique home are sources of inspiration to us. There is a great tradition of building Natural Element homes in the Historic communities around Linville, Blowing Rock and […]
Home Grown: Building Smart, Sourcing Local
*Information provided by Mountain Lumber Co.The “Great Recession” has brought dynamic change to our economy, our lifestyles, and our prospective on the future of business. We’ve read the books, followed the blogs, tweeted, friended, and examined our personal goals and ambitions. The consensus? Business will not be as usual, there is a growing shift in […]