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 First Place, West Region
Rich Van Loenen
Morrison, Colorado
The Lodge on a Mountain Lake
Rich Van Loenen is "tired but very satisfied" after working three summers to complete his mountain lodge. The lodge was designed by Van Loenen as a summer home on the lake for hunting and fishing, but will also be used in winter for snowmobiling.
The home is a hybrid, he reports, part timber frame or post and beam-stick frame and D-logs with high cinder block stem walls to better withstand deep snow. Although two carpenters helped construct the house, Van Loenen cut all the wood on his Wood-Mizer, including six species of wood: aspen, Engleman spruce, Douglas fir, Utah juniper, Ponderosa pine, and lodgepole pine. He estimates a savings of $25,000 by using his mill.
His home is located at 8,700 feet in the western San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. |
