Better Rocky Mountain Homes by Design

Before After Sunday’s (6/26/2011) Birmingham News has several well composed stories featuring homeowners in Cahaba Heights and other Alabama towns who are having difficulty obtaining enough insurance money to repair of rebuild their homes to the necessary codes and updates required by building codes in our state. Insurance companies initialize procedures to payoff insureds after a large scale loss situation. These procedures implement reduced payment formulas known as catastrophe payments. Catastrophe payments are released in the hope that the recipient will accept the amount tendered as final payment. What owners don’t understand is that the too good to be true cost per square foot construction amount they heard that their brother-in-law gets from his best buddy the builder isn’t going to come close to the expenses required to demolish, update, repair or rebuild a house with substantial damage. There are always incidentals and upgrades because of available materials and methods or con...

This door is built from Redwood planks, with bronze and hammered steel hardware. The thing that makes this door interesting is: it was built for security. It is on a cabin in the mountains 25 miles from pavement. The cabin is a dovetailed 10” x 12” redwood cant; truly a cool place in a beautiful location where the elk loiter and conventional services don’t exist. This place was built to keep honest people honest. Behind the Redwood skin of this door is a steel plate, and on the other side of the steel plate, another redwood skin. It is the kind of door that bullets won’t penetrate and honest people could never break into. The multipoint hardware system secures the door in several locations around the door. The windows on this cabin are covered with shutters build the same way.

Durango Mountain Resort (Purgatory) has a ski-in, ski-out Townhome community with luxury appointments. The units are set up for bringing all your family/friends and having everything needed for comfort. Every bedroom is a suite with its own bathroom. The lofts and rec rooms also do double duty as overflow sleeping quarters. These are 2 of the 7 buildings. They are located on the best real estate at the mountain for slope side skiing accommodations.