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Mountain

Rugged, warm, enduring

A home that wraps you in timber, stone, and firelight the moment you step inside.

Rustic retreat. Heavy timber, stone fireplaces, plaid. The ski chalet, the lakeside cabin — built to shelter and warm.

Heavier and more rugged than Craftsman; more layered and architectural than Rustic.

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What sits closest

The styles nearest to yours, measured the same way the quiz measured you. A room of yours that does not quite fit this style often fits one of these.

CraftsmanWarm & Rustic
French CountryCoastal & Sun
FarmhouseWarm & Rustic

How pattern works here

  • Mountain pattern starts with the materials: knots, bark, log ends and rounded stone.
  • Printed and woven pattern comes from textiles, with striped wool park blankets, Navajo geometric rugs and hooked rugs with animals and plants.
  • Color comes from the woods and meadows: cedar brown, forest green, deep barn red, lake blue and warm cream.
  • Painted bands of Native American design on beams and masonry appear in the great lodges, so treat them as a reference, not a copy.
  • Use one strong pattern per seating area and let the wood and stone fill the rest.

Surface by surface

What this style asks for on each surface, and what pushes it into a different style entirely.

Flooring
  • The style calls for wood that looks used and honest.
  • Reclaimed Douglas fir is milled from old mill and shipyard beams, often clear and vertical grain, in 3/4 in thick boards and mixed widths around 2 1/2 in to 5 in. Fir is soft, so it can dent and will wear in over time.
  • For a harder floor, rustic hickory is one of the hardest domestic woods, with strong color swings, and random width oak with plugged screws follows Timberline Lodge.
  • Flagstone suits entries, mudrooms and terraces.
  • Avoid: gray-washed wide planks, high gloss finishes, and porcelain wood-look tile in the main rooms.
Cabinets
  • Cabinets are plain wood with the knots left in. Knotty alder is the common lodge-house choice; it is soft, so it can dent, and it darkens and reddens with age.
  • Rustic hickory is much harder and shows knots, mineral streaks and strong contrast, so expect each door to look different.
  • Lodgepole pine, including blue-stained beetle kill pine, ties the kitchen to Rocky Mountain forests.
  • Finish with a clear coat or a warm stain rather than paint.
  • Avoid: high gloss lacquer, flat white slab doors, and gray stains that hide the grain.
Cabinet hardware
  • Hardware is forged iron or dark cast bronze.
  • Acorn Manufacturing forges iron cabinet pulls, knobs, hinges and latches.
  • Rocky Mountain Hardware makes cast silicon bronze in dark, dark lustre and rust living finishes, made for rustic settings.
  • These finishes change with use and build a patina.
  • Avoid: polished chrome, bright nickel, crystal knobs and thin modern bar pulls.
Lighting
  • Light fixtures are iron, copper and wood, built at lodge scale.
  • Old Faithful Inn has copper and iron chandeliers and wood candelabra that crown the log columns.
  • Timberline Lodge made fixtures from wagon wheels, ox yokes and singletrees, all in hand-forged iron.
  • Candle-shaped electric fixtures keep the glow low and warm.
  • Hang one large chandelier in a tall great room and keep sconces near eye level.
  • Avoid: recessed grids as the only light, cool white bulbs, and glossy glass globes.
Fireplaces
  • The fireplace is the center of the house and is built of local stone.
  • River rock, native fieldstone and cut granite ashlar all appear in the lodges, and Timberline's openings run 7 ft high and 5 ft wide.
  • A two-sided fireplace can serve the great room and the dining room at once.
  • Set a flat flagstone hearth and forged iron andirons in front.
  • A log or plain timber mantel fits better than a carved one.
  • Avoid: linear gas inserts, thin stone tile veneer, white painted brick, and polished slab surrounds.
Windows
  • Windows are wood casements with divided lights, plus one big view window.
  • Old Faithful Inn uses diamond, circle and rectangle light patterns in single and paired casements, and Lake McDonald Lodge pairs multi-light casements.
  • Timberline frames the peaks with plate glass windows 7 by 11 ft.
  • Hand-forged iron grilles add a detail where needed.
  • Avoid: vinyl frames, snap-in grilles, and heavy swags that block the view.
Stone
  • Stone in this style is local and rough.
  • In the shell, granite is rough-cut or cut into ashlar for piers, chimneys and fireplaces, often matched to nearby rock.
  • Inside, granite is the working counter stone: it is often very hard and low absorbing, though direct local heat can crack it.
  • Fieldstone veneer and river rock carry foundations and chimneys.
  • Slate splits into thin sheets and can scratch, so test it before using it on a busy floor.
  • Avoid: polished white marble, bright engineered quartz, and stacked stone panels with a uniform look.
Interior doors
  • Doors are heavy wood planks with forged iron hardware.
  • Both Old Faithful Inn and Timberline Lodge have plank entry doors with hand-forged hinges and latches, and Timberline's is hand-adzed Ponderosa pine that is 5 ft wide and 10 ft tall.
  • Interior doors can be knotty alder to match the cabinets.
  • Acorn still forges strap hinges, door pulls and thumb latch sets.
  • Avoid: six-panel colonial doors, hollow core slabs, and polished brass levers.
Stairs
  • Stairs show the logs and timbers.
  • Old Faithful Inn uses half-log treads with gnarled log railings and balusters, and Timberline uses solid Douglas fir timber treads.
  • Newel posts can be gnarled logs or carved posts; Timberline's cedar newels end in carved animal finials.
  • Keep the structure heavy and visible.
  • Avoid: cable rails, glass panels, thin metal spindles, and painted white treads.
Paint
  • Paint plays a quiet role next to all the wood.
  • Benjamin Moore's cabin palette groups cedar brown, forest green, lakeside blue, crisp white and a toasted neutral.
  • Soft Chamois OC-13 suits trim and ceilings, Iron Gate 1545 suits kitchen walls, and Caldwell Green HC-124 suits doors or details.
  • Cottage Red HC-184, a deep brownish barn red, can carry a door, an accent wall or a cabin exterior.
  • Timberline drew its guest room colors from meadows and forests.
  • Avoid: cool grays, stark bright white on every wall, and pastels.
Ceilings
  • Ceilings expose the structure.
  • Log scissors trusses, open log rafters and half-log ceilings laid to read as purlins all appear in the lodges.
  • Between beams, use pine boards, plain or beaded.
  • In an Adirondack-leaning room, birch bark between log rafters is a period detail.
  • Avoid: flat white drywall with recessed cans as the whole plan, foam faux beams, and painted coffers.
Wall details
  • Walls are logs or wood.
  • Peeled log walls, round or hewn, lead in great rooms.
  • Rough-sawn pine paneling and beaded-board pine suit bedrooms and upper floors.
  • Adirondack camps add stretched birch or cedar bark panels and twig work around doors and windows.
  • Avoid: shiplap, picture frame moulding on drywall, and faux log wallpaper.
Furniture
  • Furniture is rustic and sturdy.
  • Old Hickory style chairs of bent hickory saplings with woven bark seats furnished Old Faithful Inn and Lake McDonald Lodge.
  • Mission settees and rockers with loose cushions fill the lobby, along with octagonal tables with leather tops and brass studs.
  • Timberline used rough-hewn pine and oak trimmed with wrought iron and rawhide.
  • Avoid: tufted velvet, lacquer and mirrored pieces, and thin metal frames.
Textiles
  • Textiles are wool, flax and cotton, made to last.
  • Timberline wove its upholstery and bedspreads of wool and flax and hung hand-appliqued cotton or linen draperies.
  • Striped wool park blankets lead, such as Pendleton's 100% virgin wool Glacier National Park Blanket, with stripes from trading post blankets.
  • Woolrich's red and black buffalo check, from 1850, works as an accent.
  • Leather shows up as table tops and rawhide trim.
  • Avoid: shiny synthetics, faux fur throws in bulk, and pale sheers as the main window fabric.
Rugs
  • Rugs are handmade and patterned.
  • Navajo rugs were original at Lake McDonald Lodge, and traders sold Navajo weavings to outside buyers by catalog and at trading posts.
  • Choose rugs woven by Navajo weavers.
  • Hand-hooked wool rugs, many made from scraps, cover the floors at Timberline.
  • Persian and oriental rugs appear at the Ahwahnee, both laid and hung.
  • Avoid: printed polyester rugs that copy Navajo designs, shag, and high gloss viscose.

Where to start

Real paint colors and products, so you have something specific to take to a paint counter or a showroom.

Wall paint
Benjamin Moore Soft Chamois OC-13Trim and ceiling, cabin palette
Benjamin Moore Iron Gate 1545Kitchen walls, cabin palette
Benjamin Moore Northwood Brown 1000Nature-inspired depth
Benjamin Moore Colonial Verdigris CW-530Nature-inspired depth
Benjamin Moore Caldwell Green HC-124Bolder option for architectural details
Benjamin Moore Cottage Red HC-184Deep brownish barn red
Benjamin Moore Jack Pine 692Hunter green, for exteriors
Flooring
Longleaf Lumber Reclaimed Douglas FirFrom Hingham Shipyard beams, vertical grain
Hardware finish
Rocky Mountain Hardware Silicon Bronze DarkCast bronze living finish
Rocky Mountain Hardware Silicon Bronze RustCast bronze living finish
Acorn Manufacturing Forged IronCabinet and door hardware

The architecture underneath

A lot of what makes a room read as this style is in the architecture, before any furniture comes in.

Steep Gable Roof with DormersSheds snow, pierced by shed or hipped dormers
Stone Base, Timber AboveBoulder or fieldstone ground floor, logs above
Cedar Shake or Shingle SidingLong shakes, wide exposure, stained or natural
Great Room with BalconiesTwo or three stories, log rails around
Massive Stone ChimneyOne stack, often several fireplaces
Log Columns and Gnarled BracketsPeeled or bark-on, decorative crooked braces
Plank Entry Door, Forged IronHeavy planks, hand-forged hinges and latch
Native Materials from the SiteLocal stone and timber tie it to place

What to know about the materials

A few materials this style uses need more care than they look like they will. Worth knowing before you choose them.

PineIt blotches. Pine takes stain unevenly, so it is either painted or handled with a gel stain, and you see it on the real board before it is ordered.

If you are working on a house and want to see what this style would look like in it, set up a time with Jeid Studio and we can go through it with your answers in front of us.

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