The 12' Wide 200' Long Hardwood Deck is our Favorite Living Area in Summer
This exquisite 4,800 square foot log / frame lodge at Moose Creek Estates on the Idaho / Montana border is built on three levels. The large main floor has three bedrooms (one of which is a second master suite), two bathrooms, a spectacular kitchen and large living room, and unparallelled mud room and laundry room. A loft / office occupies part of the top level. The lowest level consists of a large master suite / living area, bathroom with four by five foot shower with two shower heads, storage room / walk in closet. The entire exterior of the lower level (all exposed concrete) is covered with beautiful river stone. With fireplaces, exterior walls, etc. there is more than one hundred tons of river stone.
A large herd of elk migrates onto the property in June to have their babies. It is common to see elk and deer and occasionally moose only twenty or thirty yards from the deck. Wildlife of all types are ever present on and around the property. In minutes you can be in the National Forest that surrounds the Moose Creek Estates on all but one corner. There you can hunt or photograph trophy deer, elk, black bear, and many other species. The development controls access to a 2.5 mile frontage and thousands of acres of National Forest.
This exclusive luxury lodge blends into nature as if it belongs here just as it was designed by architect Don Stamp.
Lodge in Winter
Lodge / Garage from East Showing Custom Garage Door
The fireplace was made to handle logs up to four feet long and eighteen inches in diameter. The antique skis on the wall give one and ideal of the scale of this warm and homey room. They are fourteen feet long. The large living area provides lots of space to entertain guests who love to join us year around. If you enjoy outdoor recreation, there are numerous activities every season.
Living Room on Main Floor
Excellent downhill skiing and snowboarding is available only four miles up Highway 93 North at Lost Trail Powder Mountain Ski Resort which is known for it wonderful dry powder. Just a mile up Highway 43 from Lost Trail is the Bitterroot Cross Country Ski Area with hundreds of cross-country skiing miles of trails and exquisite scenery. It is always nice to return from skiing, snowmobiling, or snowshoeing and warm up by one of two large fireplaces in the Moose Creek Estates lodge.
1 of 2 Fireplaces Accommodates up to 4 Foot Long Logs
Forty-four of the beautiful hand forged iron shields, by North Fork Forge, adorn the stair railings inside and outside. Stair railings are topped by iron fillets as are the front of each inside stair tread. North Fork Forge also created a hand wrought quaking aspen chandelier that spans nine feet between two of the large beams and is seven feet tall (see article on North Fork Forge earlier in this blog for more of their incredible iron art).
One of 44 Hand Forged Iron Shields that Adorn Stair Railings Inside and Out
Hand Forged Quaking Aspen Chandelier by North Fork Forge from Below
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Hand Forged Chandelier by North Fork Forge seen from Loft |
An art niche at the top of the loft stairs is a great place to display this silver mounted saddle made by world famous maker Ray Holes in 1952 as well as other arts and antiques.
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Art Niche at Top of Loft Stairs |
The twenty foot long bar is made from a standing dead beetle killed douglas fir from the property. The tree was 154 years old. Note the copper working surface and elegant one and one half inch thick, solid hickory cabinets in the kitchen.
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Custom Bar - Note Part View of Door to Garage on Left in Front of Stairs |
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Lighted Stair Treads Reflected off Granite on Island at Night |
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Bar Sink - Note Copper Work Surface on Custom Bar |
A large island with vegetable prep sink and its own disposal enables for lots of cooks to share the kitchen. A custom English baked clay sink is showcased under granite with an earthy pattern that also adorns the other cabinets, counters and serves as a beautiful back splash.
A six burner Wolf Subzero gas stove makes cooking a pleasure. The large Subzero side-by-side refrigerator is faced by hickory as is the Bosch dishwasher.
Floors throughout the living areas, hallway, lower level master suite, storage / walk-in closet, and laundry room are solid rough-sawed hickory.
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Spacious & Functional Kitchen with 1 1/2" thick Custom Hickory Cabinets & Rough Sawed Hickory Flooring |
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Wolf Subzero 6 Burner Gas Range - Work Surfaces Covered with Beautiful Granite |
If ever there was a perfect laundry room, this is it. From the garage, one has the choice of entering the laundry room or the kitchen. This allows the laundry room to serve as a mud room. The builders didn't love the four hundred pound cast laundry sink near as much as we do.
There is ample storage for everything from coats and boots to kitchen supplies and the central vacuum cleaner system hoses. Everyone who sees this room expresses a wish that it was in their home.
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Laundry Room When Cabinet Doors were being Installed - Note Door to Garage |
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Laundry Room with Lots of Storage in Custom 1 1/2" Solid Hickory |
All doors throughout the lodge, including closet doors are custom made from knotty alder. The home is trimmed in knotty alder throughout.
This view of one of the guest rooms is typical of the other bedrooms on the mail level - large and comfortable. It seems that everyone guest makes the same comment that it is the best night sleep they have ever had. It is easy to slow down and relax in this beautiful natural setting.
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Guest Bedroom with Exposed Beam & Custom Knotty Alder Closet Doors |
The ceiling in the kitchen and main level living area is constructed of a beautiful blue pine. The two massive main beams in the house measure 1 foot by 3 feet by 65 feet and weigh well over eight thousand pounds each. The massive structure of interconnected beams was designed to support ten feet of heavy, wet snow on the roof and is also a thing of beauty.
The custom antique wagon wheel & moose antler chandelier with rawhide shades provides part of the light to the office / loft area. Note the beautiful structural beams in the background. The quality of construction throughout the home has been described as cabinet quality and tolerances. The entire lodge is a work of art.
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Custom Chandelier |
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Blue Pine Ceilings & Massive Interlocking Beam Structure |
We are using the lower level master suite as a large bunk room to accommodate our many children and grandchildren who love to visit us at Moose Creek Estates. Each custom made (Boynton Brothers) log bunk features a full size bed on the bottom and twin on the top.
The large walk-in closet / storage features floor to ceiling shelves as well as lots of room to hang clothes. The fireplace insert in the lower master suite is 99.5% efficient and uses very little wood for the amount of heat generated.
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Lower Level Master Suite Seen from Door to Patio & Pond |
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Lower Master Suite Seen from Living Area |
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Lower Level Master Suite from Stairway - Note Beautiful Inset Hickory Bookcase |
This beautiful suite opens to a lower patio and the trout pond as well as to the lower parking area. It is common to see all kinds of wildlife out the windows of the master suite as well as the other levels of this unique home.
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Trout Pond off Lower Level Parking & Master Suite |
The bottom level master suite bath features ample cabinetry and storage made of solid inch and one half hickory. The four by five foot tile shower has two shower heads and massive plate glass doors as do the other bathrooms in the house.
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4' x 5' Lower Level Shower with Dual Shower Heads & Seats |
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Lower Level Bath with Ample Storage in Hickory Cabinets |
