Big Sky Journal : The New Montana Cabin - Contemporary Approaches to the Traditional Western Retreat

by Davis, Seabring

• ISBN13: 9780762746965
• ISBN10: 0762746963
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-16
• Publisher: TwoDot

Summary

The traditional dream cabin meets the twenty-first century. There is a new style of architectural design emerging in the West, one that taps the spirit of history even while keeping an eye toward the future. It's an aesthetic that integrates a homestead heritage with sustainable living, luxury with logic, pleasure with pragmatism. The ideas might be applied to a historic train depot that is converted to an urban-inspired living space, a farmstead reclaimed as a family retreat or a new sod-roof home constructed of salvaged and recycled woods. It's one part rustic, one part recycled and all parts refined style to assuage the yearning for nature, open space and the need to own a piece of it, if only for a little while.

Author Biography

Seabring Davis is the editor of the award-winning magazine Big Sky Journal. She is the author of A Montana Table: Recipes from Chico Hot Springs Resort and Insider’s Guide to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. She lives in Livingston, Montana.

Table of Contents

Natural Contour: Frank Lloyd Wright influences in a remote canyon

Reframing the West: Sustainable materials in an award-winning mountain home

Intentionally Irrelevant: The outside is brought indoors with this simple design

Found Montana: Reclaiming a contemporary getaway

Revering the Ranch: Modern luxury in the Grasshopper Valley

The Augusta Depot Lives Again: Refurbishing a train station

Homestead History: Historical roots in the shadow of the Rockies

Urban Renewal: An interior designer incorporates recycled materials into a funky new Victorian

Stepped Up: A prairie home built into a hillside in Gallatin Valley

Fitting In: A new rustic modern home within a historic neighborhood

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Excerpts

From the introduction

 

“If there can be a defining element in the new Montana cabin, ‘place’ is it: the notion that we are all free to enjoy the openness—the sky, mountains, rivers, and forests—while respecting the land and its history.”

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