A black gabled house under hardwoods, the ground around it still open.

01SignatureSite visit

Falcon’s Perch

Amy Reynolds

A Signature House, carried onto a wooded lot. The interior is furnished. Outside, the ground is still open, and the oaks are still overhead

Began as
Signature House

Falcon’s Perch, as drawn

Program
2 bed · 2 bath · 1,488 sf

As drawn, loft or basement.

Place
Hohenwald, Tennessee

Region only. We do not publish addresses.

Timeline
January 2024

First walk to furnished interior.

Design
HUT

Architecture and interiors, as one.

01The land

A cleared pad under the oaks.

The subfloor on the foundation, set in the oaks, the ground still bare.
The pad
The gable wrapped, standing among the oaks, leaves on the ground.
In the oaks

PhotographAerial

Drone still of the pad under the canopy. To be flown.

The pad is poured under the oaks that stayed. Which trees were kept, where the porch faces, and where the water goes are written here once the record is complete.

02Building

Frame, roof, then the room.

The visits caught the raising, the roof from inside the room, and the fit-out. Dates come from the build record.

  1. To be confirmed

    Foundation

    The pad, with the subfloor on.
    Foundation and subfloor under the oaks.
    The pad
  2. To be confirmed

    Framing

    The gable goes up between the oaks.
    The roof being raised, trusses going on between the trees.
    Raising
    Inside the gable while the roof is still open rafters.
    Inside
  3. To be confirmed

    Roof

    The deck, seen from inside the room.
    The full roof structure over the great room, loft wall framed below it.
    The room
    The roof deck from the other end of the room, windows open to the trees.
    From inside
  4. To be confirmed

    Fit-out

    Cabinets in. The scaffold is still in the room.
    The kitchen during fit-out: sage cabinets, island carcass, scaffold at the left.
    Kitchen

03The house

Furnished inside. Open ground outside.

The great room furnished, the kitchen beyond, under the vault.
Great room
Leather sofas facing a black fireplace, doors open to the trees.
Fireplace

FilmThe house, in one take

A slow walk from the pad, under the porch, into the great room. To be filmed.

04The people

In the owners’ words.

Published with permission.

I didn’t know what to expect; I’ve never worked with an architecture firm before

Amy ReynoldsInterview · To be recorded

For Amy, the experience of working with The Hut Company was more personal and collaborative than she had expected.

Amy ReynoldsInterview

05Journal

Written along the way.

06Where it stands

The record.

  1. To be confirmedSite visitThe lot walked. Hardwoods overhead, the pad cleared.
  2. To be confirmedIn constructionRoof framed, then decked. Photographed from inside the room.
  3. To be confirmedIn constructionKitchen fit-out. Scaffold still in the room.
  4. To be confirmedSite visitInterior furnished. The ground outside still open.

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