This single family home in the Greenlake neighborhood of Seattle is a modern home with a strong emphasis on sustainability. The house includes a rainwater harvesting system that supplies the toilets and laundry with water. On-site storm water treatment, native and low maintenance plants reduce the site impact of this project. This project emphasizes the relationship between site and building by creating indoor and outdoor spaces that respond to the surrounding environment and change throughout the seasons.
This photo has 6 questions
jaguey2010 wrote:
Wood countertop - Where can I purchase a slab of wood like that? »
Fivedot Design Build Hi,
There are places to buy them online but it is hard to tell what they look like without seeing them in person. If you live in the Pacific Northwest there are a bunch of places. Some of them have online presences as well (urban hardwoods, meyer wells, gobi walnut). Many arborists/tree cutting companies now offer slabs and might be a good resource.
Ritchieos I recently bought 3 slabs via craigslist seller who got them as payment for services by a guy who had a mobile milling machine on his own ranch. Im currently going throughfinishing process in order to use one of these for my powder room as a counter top for my vessel. My concern is finding a decent support bracket to hold the top (apprx 45lbs) plus vessel 15 lbs, plus anyone who bears down on it with their weight... Or any kid who likes to hang onto ledges.... Ive yet to find decent direction on this problem. My top will not have adjoinied crner wall on either end, so the back wall is all i have. An as i keep having suggested, i will burn the thing before i put legs on it,,,mthat is not the vision i was going for. Im confident if you could, that you will have an idea for me, "my vision" apparently is a shared one , as evidenced in the above photo.... Looks great.
Ritchieos Oh and in more detail of how i intend to complete the finish. Well its learn as i go, but using Tung Oil on Mesquite Slab, also likely a stain towards the darker tones, as its too close of an orange color to that of my concrete floor stain. In addition to a lot of sanding Started with 80 grit and each day i oil and sand until i'm use the 220 grit, then may not need and epoxy as the tung oil hardens and seals superbly.
Ingram and Piper chose natural and reclaimed furnishings to soften the modern lines. A huge slab of salvaged willow tree trunk from a skate park site serves as a vanity in the half bath. A superefficient boiler heats both the domestic hot water and the radiant floors. The house is plumbed for solar hot water preheat, which any future homeowners can easily add to further reduce utility costs.Vanity: urbanhardwoods
LOVE....concrete floors, white walls, long narrow raw wooden bench top and that the loo is separate to the bathing area....bit too tall though...maybe not quite soo high ceilings...
There are places to buy them online but it is hard to tell what they look like without seeing them in person. If you live in the Pacific Northwest there are a bunch of places. Some of them have online presences as well (urban hardwoods, meyer wells, gobi walnut). Many arborists/tree cutting companies now offer slabs and might be a good resource.