If you have ever spent a Sunday afternoon driving back from the lake house and thought, why does coming home feel like the vacation is over, you are already the target audience for the Cedarhollow. It is built around the rhythms that make a getaway feel like a getaway: coffee on a deep front porch before the day has opinions, golden-hour dinners with nowhere to be, and a vaulted great room with enough ceiling to actually breathe in.
Specifications
- Sq. Ft.: 1,100
- Bedrooms: 3
- Bathrooms: 2
Floor Plan – Main Floor
A 3-bedroom Southern home with a vaulted great room at the center, master suite on the left, two bedrooms sharing a bath on the right, and a breezeway connecting to a 24×24 carport with timber beams.
Cedar, Stone, and a Shed Roof That Earns Its Keep in the Pines
Vertical cedar siding wraps the main volume while stacked stone columns anchor the carport structure. The shed roof pitches sharply from the carport’s high point down toward the entry, keeping the facade dynamic without competing with the tree line. Gravel handles the perimeter with zero maintenance, and a row of columnar shrubs flanks the front door — just enough green to soften all that raw material without making a fuss about it.
The Shed Roof as Architectural Anchor
That dramatic single-pitch roof does more work than it looks like. Starting high over the carport and dropping toward the living wing, it builds a visual hierarchy that pulls your eye from the covered parking straight to the front door. The dark standing-seam metal finish reads almost black against the cedar siding, which keeps the roofline from disappearing into the pine canopy overhead.
Stone Up to the Ceiling, Fire at the Floor, Forest Out Every Window
Stacked stone runs floor to ceiling beside a linear gas fireplace with a raw wood mantel shelf.
Worth Knowing: Floor-to-ceiling stone chimneys like this one pull double duty as heat source and visual anchor — especially useful in rooms with vaulted ceilings, where that upper wall space can become awkward dead zone fast. A linear gas fireplace with a TV mounted above keeps the arrangement clean without a built-in media console eating into the floor. Black-framed windows hold their own against all that stone without turning it into a competition.
Marble Island, Black Appliances, and Exposed Beams That Anchor the Whole Room
Two black side-by-side refrigerators flanking a marble-clad island is an unusual move, and it works because the island’s veining echoes the backsplash behind the range hood. Four industrial adjustable stools keep the seating casual. Dark wood ceiling beams draw your eye upward without picking a fight with the white cabinetry below — and honestly, that balance is harder to pull off than it looks.
The Psychology Behind This: Symmetry triggers a sense of calm before we’ve consciously registered why a room feels right. Placing identical appliances on opposing walls creates a visual rhythm that reads as order, and order reads as rest. For a home designed to feel like a getaway, that psychological cue does real work every single day.
Overhead View Reveals How the Stone Wall Pulls Living Room and Kitchen Into One Story
From above, the layout shows its hand: the sectional faces the fireplace while the island’s barstools face the kitchen, yet both zones share the same wood floor without a seam between them. That circular pendant does more to anchor the living area than a rug alone could manage. And the marble countertop carries real visual weight from this angle — it reads almost like a spine running through the middle of the room.
By The Numbers: Open-plan great rooms read differently from above than at eye level. An overhead view exposes whether furniture placement works with a room’s natural traffic flow or fights it. Here, the sectional’s L-shape quietly steers movement toward the kitchen without blocking the fireplace sightline — two things that are easy to get wrong and hard to fix after the fact.
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The top half shows the exterior rendering of Cedarhollow: vertical wood cladding, oversized black-framed windows, and a metal shed roof set among tall pines. Below it, the floor plan lays out three bedrooms, a vaulted great room, an open kitchen, a carport with timber beams, and a covered porch spanning the front.
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