What makes us happy? What makes us feel at home? Let’s explore the differences between Under and Over, Inside and Out, Beginning and End. Where is your heart? Where do you feel the most comfortable, and why? Join us in the exploration of the infinite world of Created Space. We enjoy hearing from you.
Munn Architecture will be hosting the 2011 December Granby Chamber Mixer & Open House with Firebird Design Works, Frye Business Systems and LD Watkins Construction
When: Thursday, December 15 2011 4:30-6:30
Where: Granby Centennial Building, 70 E. Agate Avenue Granby CO 80446
What: Only the best Meet & Greet Party in Grand County!
Join us for this year’s mixer, ‘Occupy the Centennial Building’ where you will be treated to delicious locally-made food and wonderful local liquid refreshments & Holiday Cheer! 2 floors of fun to catch up with friends and make new ones. We will see you here!
Rob Peeters, owner of Naked Aspen Designs, hand-selects all of the standing-dead aspen for his furniture, which is infused with the character of the Rocky Mountain West. His woodworking technique takes the personality of each piece of wood into account, to inform the designs of his furniture. He avoids cutting down live trees, leaving our beautiful aspen forests for the next generation to enjoy.
We recently worked with Rob on a remodel project in Grand Lake, where he fitted 2 beautiful Pullman-style bunk beds to the exact specifications of a tight space with a dramatic view of the lake. The furniture was pre-constructed in his workshop, de-constructed, and then re-built on site, where the bunks fit to the millimeter. The finished product was a piece that looked as if it had been built into the historic cabin on day one, 40 years before.
Bunkbeds similar to those fitted to the Grand Lake-side Residence
Rob claims his interest in “unusual and unique log furniture came from my experience building custom homes in Winter Park. With so many beautiful and different home designs, most with some sort of log accents, I knew I could design furniture to fit any custom home perfectly.”
Rob doesn’t stop with just aspen wood as a material. He incorporates stainless steel, bronze, granite and slate into his designs as well. With a varied mix of local and imported components, his furniture products involve a wonderful variety of color and texture. Rob does custom work, and also has a showroom in Fraser, Colorado.
A beautiful Walnut table top mixed with Aspen edging creates rustic elegance in this dining set
Naked Aspen Designs
535 Zerex St.
Fraser, Colorado
970-726-1039
rob@nakedaspendesigns.com
We will be hauling and spreading mulch for the Fraser Community Gardens on Friday, October 28th – This Date has been changed due to snow!- we will update next week. You’ve got to come and see what they have been up to – it looks great! We would welcome a little help between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm to help spread the mulch around the new raised beds. For more information of Fraser’s new Community Garden, visit the Grand County Gardens website!
07/12/2011
Hello everyone! Below are some fantastic photos of the Beringer/Middleton now that is completed. We hope you enjoy. These photos are compliments of Byron Hetzler. (contact: 970-531-3122). To see construction photos, click here.
We are always excited to connect with a client, but also to learn from them. The patriarch of the family who built this solar mountain retreat grew up in the first rammed-earth home built in Colorado. We learned a lot from the Millers, about design, about family, and about priorities.
Simplicity and self-sufficiency were the by-words for this home in Ouray Ranch. But also, the Table. The home was designed to highlight a multi-functional family table that would be able to fit the Millers, their kids, and their grand-kids…all 14 of them…for dinner. This family meal was probably the most important piece of the home.
The contractor, Zastrow Building Enterprises (970.887.2838), incorporated simple & wonderful interior and exterior details, most using dead-standing beetle-kill wood, avoiding cutting down living trees. This lumber was milled locally, with minimal embodied energy use during transport of materials.
With the help of a superb energy evaluation form, Imagin3 LLC, the team brought the Solar Retreat in at a tight Energy Star HERS rating of 57. This will save the Millers dollars down the road, and provide peace of mind in the knowledge that this home is contributing significantly fewer greenhouse gasses to the environment than the regional average.
1/28/2010
The Beringer-Middleton home was inspired by the many old mining structures found throughout the Colorado Mountains.
Construction Photos:
High Country House and Home Article
Contractor: Cabin Creek Carpentry, Ltd.
