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Black Bull Bozeman Custom Home Building Progress Report 1

January 24, 2014

The Teton Heritage Builder team has been working hard on getting the Lot 216 project up and moving at Black Bull Subdivision in Bozeman. This home, designed by Talus Architects of Bozeman, MT, will be going on the market in the next few months. It is a stick framed home with timber details both inside and out. The Great Room offers fantastic views of the Spanish Peaks mountain range, that you can see upon entering the home through the foyer. It is a 4 bedroom home with open concept Kitchen, Dining and Great Room space. The Great Room is vaulted to capitalize on the grand room feeling.

The home has a very nice sized Master bedroom on the main floor with a huge walk-in closet and master bathroom. It faces towards the same views of the Spanish Peaks that the Great Room does. There is an additional bedroom on the main floor with it’s own bathroom as well. An office, laundry room and mudroom complete the first floor in a tremendous layout. In addition, the home features a 3 car garage.

On the second floor, there are 2 additional bedrooms, a rec room and an additional full bathroom. The rec room features a vaulted ceiling as well and is perfectly suited as a TV area.

One of the best things about the home is it’s location. Situated on a fantastic Estate lot in the Black Bull subdivision, which is home to a premier Tom Weiskopf designed golf course, this lot backs up to open space, and, therefore, will never have a home located behind it. It is very close to Bozeman, MT, and within driving distance of 2 phenomenal ski resorts, Bridger Creek and Big Sky.

This home embodies all that Teton Heritage holds dear in our business: Creating Legacy homes with an attention to detail and quality that is unsurpassed in our markets.

Stay tuned for more pictures, as the project progresses.

Big Sky’s Yellowstone Club Home featured in Big Sky Journal

November 27, 2013

Big Sky Builders Modern Beacon in the Yellowstone Club

Yellowstone Club Mountain Modern Home Creates Huge Buzz in Big Sky!

Teton Heritage Builders’ was recently featured in an article by Seabring Davis about the most impressive modern rendition of homes currently located in the Big Sky area. The article is featured in the latest issue of Big Sky Journal, released earlier this week.

It was a true collaborative effort on the parts of THB, the architect, Reid Smith, and the interior designer, Len Cotsovolos.

The home features some very cool elements that have previously were not available in the Big Sky market, namely in the tile finishes. The curtain wall windows were manufactured in Germany, and are a triple glaze product that really add to the overall efficiency of the home. All of the cabinetry was custom made in Idaho, while the interior doors were built out of a custom shop in Bozeman.

The home also features very high efficiency systems in regards to heating, lighting and solar control. It has a geothermal heating system, that heats the home through radiant floor heating. It also has a very sophisticated lighting control system that can be operated by remote when needed. From a solar heat gain perspective, the home has automated blinds on the south walls to help keep the home cool in the summer.

Top to bottom, this home has had a huge impact on the YC market, as one can see many designs reflecting this one popping up all over the resort.

We at THB feel very fortunate to have worked with the team that we did, in addition to the owners, as it once again reflects our dedication to craftsmanship and diversity of our homes.

Enjoy the article and we look forward to hearing great things about it in the future.

Big Sky Floorplans

August 20, 2013

We get requests frequently from prospective clients who want to see Big Sky floorplans. Folks want to understand how our homes are laid out and get a feel for what their Big Sky log cabin or timber frame home might look like. We completely understand the situation and more often than not have to rely on simply describing home plans to clients because we don’t own the architectural design to give out.

Over the last 17 years of building in Jackson Hole and Southwest Montana Teton Heritage Builders has built some gorgeous spec homes. Many of these homes went on to be published in coffee table books and magazines such as Ralph Kylloe’s Cabins & Camps, Cowboys and Indians, and Custom Wood Homes. And it is now our pleasure to make the architectural drawings available for you to spend time with.

Teton Heritage Builders is very proud to showcase projects under construction in Bozeman, MT and Big Sky, MT. These timber frame cabins both have stunning views of the Spanish Peaks range and feature an open floorplan designed for entertaining. When you take into account the secluded master suites and accompanying guest quarters, these homes are quintessential homes of Big Sky Country.

The Elk Ridge 75 project is located in the Club at Spanish Peaks. This Big Sky cabin is situated with ski access to Big Sky Resort and a Tom Weiskopf golf course. We are more than happy to introduce you to the architects at Centre Sky Architecture that helped us to put this vision onto paper.

Our Bozeman cabin is in the Black Bull golf community which also has a Tom Weiskopf golf course. Just a few minutes from both Bozeman and Big Sky, this home is a gem for the family that skis, fishes, hikes, boats and golfs. Designed by Talus Architects, specialists in Rocky Mountain homes.

Please contact us if you would like more information on these homes.

Top 10 Features in Luxury Homes

July 23, 2013

The results are in. The people have spoken. We now have a list of the top 10 features in luxury homes. Topping the list is a warming drawer in the kitchen!

The National Association of Home Builders recently conducted an analysis of the hottest features in luxury homes valued at or above $500,000. After analyzing national data on over 120 home features, the NAHB released the list of the ten most desirable features. The list is as follows:

Warming drawer in kitchen
Two story family room
Kitchen with wine cooler
An outdoor kitchen
Two story entry foyer
An elevator
A wet bar
An exercise room
Home in golf course community
A game room

If you put all of these features into a single building I can see how it can be considered a luxury home. But not everybody desires each and every one of these homes features. As Big Sky and Jackson Hole builders we love to bring our clients’ dreams into reality. So if our client’s dream home includes an exercise room then we will absolutely build it!

Teton Heritage Builders works with progressive Jackson Hole and Big Sky architects to make creative home ideas a reality. We have retrofitted homes with elevators, built hidden passages, made a wooden ship in a play room, and built full wine rooms in our homes. The only limit to what we can build is the imagination.

Log Cabin Framing

July 11, 2013

Foxtail Residence Big Sky Log Cabin 3 — Log Stack Cabin in Big Sky, Montana

If you are planning to build a log cabin it is important to think about the framing. Log cabin framing can impact the budget of the home as well as the utility costs. Let’s compare a traditional log stack cabin to a cabin with aesthetic log accents.

Thinking about log cabin framing in the traditional way is a bit outdated in today’s technological world. A true log stack cabin is exactly what it sounds like – hewn logs stacked on top of each other with chink in between the logs to keep the winter chill out. The look is great, but the thermal properties are atrocious. You achieve about 1 R-Value point for every inch in diameter of the log. Essentially, your home has worse insulation than a home built in the 70’s. In addition, it is costly to run power for outlets and light fixtures in the logs.

Today’s answer to the log stack is a conventionally framed home with aesthetic log accents. It is a blend of old and new paradigms and is a particularly interesting cabin design. This style combines the best of modern home insulation techniques while maintaining the traditional look and feel of a log cabin. By applying log accents to the shell of a traditional, stick framed home you gain the cost savings of easily running power and ducting around the home. You also get the benefit of proper insulation that is tragically lost in a pure log cabin. If you live in Montana or Wyoming (or anywhere in the Rockies) this equates to large rough-in savings as well as big energy savings over the course of a winter and the life of the cabin.

Caddis Fly INT46 — Custom Built Jackson Hole Log Cabin

If you choose log cabin framing with log accents your home will look just as authentic as the one next door (same chink, same stain, etc.) but your log cabin will be less drafty and easier on the checkbook. The upfront cost is greater with the framing and log accents since you must mill the logs specifically for the application. However, over the life of the home you will end up saving more money on utility costs than you spent on the log cabin framing. And the best part – if you choose the right builder, nobody will notice it’s not a true log stack cabin.

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