Atlanta Country Club Luxury Home
Sustainably sourced wood products for residential home build
Root-to-Fruit Story
One of the primary components for sustainable building is taking in to consideration the local environment, and optimizing the usefulness and economy of materials.
Thinking holistically about the environmental and neighborhood stewardship, a residential homeowner seeking to build a new custom home engaged Eutree to help repurpose trees identified for removal on a new parcel of land in Atlanta Country Club.
Eutree worked with the client and builder Steve Edison Custom Homes to identify and salvage logs that could be crafted into flooring, paneling, mantles, furniture pieces and other architectural wood products based on the client’s architectural and design plans.
While the removal of some trees was required for removal due to construction or hazardous reasons, the client and Eutree worked with local arborist to minimize the impact to the tree canopy and surrounding environment.
Each locally sourced tree was selected for a specific purpose. The selection criteria is a core value of sustainable building that allows for intentional design of the product. Featured here are poplar logs that were selected for paneling.
Long pine logs were selected to be crafted into exposed beams and architectural accents throughout the home.
Each log is tagged and labeled on the property site.
Logs are then transported to the Eutree lumberyard.
Eutree unloads each log.
Logs are inventoried and relabeled according to the client’s architectural and design plans.
Each log is milled for a specific purpose.
Cants are milled for various lumber board sizes that will eventually be crafted into flooring, paneling for feature walls, and furniture pieces.
Several logs were identified to be milled into slabs for tabletops.
Featured here are the cut drawings for how Eutree’s sawyer will mill this particular log for thick, wide plank white oak quartersawn stair treads.
Eutree’s project manager oversees the milling of the stair treads according to the client’s design plans.
The client’s pine logs are milled into beams.
Once beams are milled, they spend several months weathering in Eutree’s lumberyard to achieve the client’s aesthetic for a natural old world look.
Each cant is brought inside to be milled into lumber boards.
Eutree’s project manager discusses the resawing plan with the client and demonstrates how the cants will be resawed into boards to make flooring, lumber boards and paneling.
Each cant is ressawed into individual lumber boards. Featured here is a rainbow poplar board that will eventually be crafted into paneling with a gray finish for the client’s wine room.
Lumber boards are stacked, stickered and labeled.
Once all lumber is milled and resawed into boards, it is placed in Eutree’s lumberyard where it will begin the process of slowly air drying.
Over the course of several months, lumber stacks are monitored to ensure proper air flow is occurring between boards. Slowly air drying lumber ensure straight, durable, high quality boards.
The lumber completes it’s air drying phase once the moisture content level in the wood reaches 20%.
Once air drying is complete, each lumber pack then enters the kiln for the final drying step.
After several weeks in the kiln, lumber is then removed and brought into the warehouse where it will then be crafted into hardwood flooring, paneling for feature walls, beams, slabs and dimensional lumber for furniture pieces.
Lumber from the client’s pecan logs were crafted by our furnituremaker partner, Lamon Luther, into this stunning kitchen island.
Eutree’s authentic reclaimed barnwood prefinished floors are featured throughout the main floor of the home.
Weathered pine beams crafted from the client’s logs adorn the vaulted ceiling in the grand living room.
Tables, shelving and other accents crafted by furnituremaker Lamon Luther are featured throughout the home’s interor.
The second floor features wide plank prefinished oak floors crafted from the customer’s white and red oak logs in a mixed width. (Unique to Eutree, is our ability to craft long length floor planks; average 8'-12’).
Flooring installation was performed by the pro craftsmen at M.S. Construction Services.
Prefinished herringbone floor design installation by M.S. Construction Services.
The white oak floors features a wire brushed and skip sawn texture crafted by Eutree.
Generously cut stair treads from the client’s white oak logs are the centerpiece in this dramatic industrial modern staircase.
The illuminated lighting system beautifully showcases the quartersawn pattern in the wood’s natural grain.
Lighting pendants accent the floating staircase.
Beams and mantles were also mounted as accents in the home’s outdoor spaces.
A sycamore live edge slab is the gathering space for this outdoor patio table crafted by Lamon Luther.
Shelving and other wood accents can be found throughout this stunning custom home; all sustainably crafted from the client’s salvaged logs giving the wood a new life to be enjoyed for years to come.
