Cladding the outside of a high craft mountain home in Pagosa Springs, Colorado our Larch Cinder siding provides the perfect natural substrate for a house that  collaborates several specialized artistic elements.

The homeowner says, “If  you ask me, my house celebrates the love of the wood, and the structural elements are really doing a great job combining the house structure with the beauty of the wood in a way that’s sound and, in a way where you can bring in as many design elements as you want.”

As a creative, the homeowner loves applying different types of materials in her work, as well as her home. She has an affinity for wood, metal, and glasswork and says, “Those materials flow through my artwork; I do fused glass, I absolutely love glasswork, and I love doing metalwork and combining the two. So, you see that [in the house] with the wood, to the metal, to the stone, and to the glass, with all of the windows.”

Similarly to her creative excursions, our client’s home is a piece of art that deserves both inspection and reflection through its use of disparate materials into a singular medium. A purposeful foundational piece that ties it all together is our traditionally inspired, responsibly harvested and American made, Larch Cinder siding.

Charred via our proprietary Shou Sugi Ban process, we vigorously burn the surface layer of the Larch away before wire brushing the char and revealing a contrasting array of grains and tones. 

This process enables the wood to take color well, and in the case of this mountain home, allows the emotive hue of our Cinder cladding to blend with the diverse array of materials on the outside of the house:

Our vertically installed Larch siding provides a rustic contrast to the stacked stone facade and horizontal metal siding on the second level of the home, lending a comfortable tone that pulls from each of the house’s biophilic hues. The Larch siding both blends and stands apart from the strength of the stone and the edgy metal horizontal siding. 

Offering a specialized artistic bent true to the homeowners’ goals, as well as being a material that speaks the vernacular of the mountains, our Shou Sugi Ban Larch Cinder checks all of the boxes of aesthetics, sustainability, and performance. 

With its attractive tones, intriguing grain patterns, and resistance to rot, insects, and fire, our Shou Sugi Ban Larch Cinder not only ignites a chosen design intent but protects your home and investment.

Architect: New Energy Works Design

Builder: Talamante Construction, LLC

Other Credits: Tamarack Grove Engineering

Photos: Nathanael Ward Photography