It’s a custom home and doesn’t strictly adhere to the modern Lindal Elements grid system. The posts are 8 feet apart. Axmith liked the “cleaner” look of having the posts further apart in this design. It also allowed the clients to install a 15-foot slider door in the main room. The great room is 32 feet wide and incorporates the kitchen, living and dining areas. “In the master bedroom we added a beam just for aesthetics,” Axmith said.
The couple hired an interior designer to create an ultra-modern indoor aesthetic.
The exterior siding is composed of pre-stained cedar.
One thing people like most about this design are the ceilings, which strike just the right balance between elegant height and cozy comfort. In the great room they rise to 14 feet, but drop to 11 feet in the master bedroom, and 9 feet in the bedroom wing and sunroom. These different volumes and heights are reflected in the multiple flat roofs that top this modern design.Axmith said a lot of people query him about the wisdom of designing flat-roofed homes in an area where the annual snowfall can be up to 70 inches. He said that with Lindal’s superior engineering capabilities, it is never an issue. The entire roof is coated and protected by EPDM, a synthetic rubber membrane that has been widely used on low-slope roofs for over 40 years. Roof runoff is facilitated by the installation of tapered insulation, which reaches a subtle high point from which moisture drains in four different directions. The roof itself is engineered to support heavy snow loads of up to 70 pounds. Beams 25 feet in length made of HGL glu-laminated fir and spaced 8 feet apart span the home from front to back. TJI joists lie perpendicular to and on top of the beams at regular intervals. Below, glulam posts in the outside wall are spaced at 8-foot intervals, supporting the beams. “It is exactly the same as any flat-roof commercial building,” Axmith said. “The nice thing with Lindal is there is never an issue structurally. Stick houses run into problems with flat on roof drainage.” Lindal’s post-and-beam system means that snow load pressure and wind resistance can be directly transferred into the ground. This is one reason why homes built using post-and-beam construction reliably meet and often exceed energy code requirements.
Axmith has good memories of this project. “They were great people to work with, more than happy with the design,” he said. The builder built 100 of the 130 Lindal homes built in this area over the years. “It went very smoothly.”
