Thanks for noticing & liking, Brenda Haverkamp!

Love it! Thanks for sharing.

The house looks like a cartoon.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? (THe house translates the vision of the homeowners. The image above is of the "Storybook Cottage" as it is known!)

I love it. It is unique.

Thank you!

Omg i love this! Would make an awesome green house!

Glad you like it. The house is "green" in many ways (green building) but do you mean an actual greenhouse? We used many reclaimed materials and took indoor air quality and energy efficiency measures in this project. It also follows Sarah Susanka's "Not So Big House" rules in that it is about 1/3 smaller than the clients program originally called for... (in spite of that, it is still a large house...)

I love this roof. Was it difficult to find craftsmen who knew this technique?

I had to go outside of my normal area. The roofer came from the Chicago area, while this project was in the Milwaukee suburbs. I saw another award-winning project in southern Wisconsin where this type of roof was used, and contacted that builder to find out who they had used. Thanks for asking!

Angela- Thanks for asking but I no longer know how much it cost. I can tell you that it was very labor intensive and very expensive. I think it may have taken a crew of 3-5 guys about 2 weeks to do that portion of the roof. I'm glad you liked it!

I install a ton of cedar shake and I got say this is the coolest shake roof I've ever seen!

Thanks! It took some special skills and patience from those roofers...