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Tiramuuk features a large kitchen with all the conviences of any modern home. The kitchen has a ceramic floor and counters that are accented in artistically detailed oak, cherry, and pine cabinets. It is also filled with free form rustic furniture.

The downstairs master bedroom and kitchen each have an entry way to a nicely sized bathroom that has a 5 foot long clawfoot bathtub. A living room with 24 foot high ceilings has a catwalk suspened 20 feet up covered in vines and rustic art. Custom made stairs will guide you into a balcony and down a hallway where two more bedrooms with deep window wells also share in the adobe feel. There is a nice sized upstairs bathroom with a large slate shower. The upstairs also has a study/bedroom with a large opening that looks upon the living room.

Tiramuuk was built with "green living" in mind while maintaining a colonial feel to it. It was inspired by the earth and woods around it yet using some of the simple technology that has been introduced in the past decades. Take for instane the 2 foot walls made of strawbale and earthen plaster. The average R-value (R-value is a term predominantly used in the building industry to rate the insulative properties of construction materials and building assemblies) of a house is anywhere between 13 and 19. In a house built with straw bale and earth and plaster it is 58! What does that mean? It takes very little to heat it in the winter and the heat will also be absorbed and last a long time. As an added plus the reverse effect occurs in the summer. The house actually stays cooler than the outside tempeture.
Almost everything used in the construction of the house was found only acres away in the forest around it. All the wood is first surveyed for length, shape, and integrity than milled with our own mobile saw mill leaving very little waste. The slate used is from a quarry only an hour away and the earthen plaster is from where the house now stands with the exception the highest quality kentucky redball clay that we borrowed from our neighbors to the south