This project was full of charm and quirks, which often comes when a client purchases a historic property with plans of preserving as many original features as possible. Careful considerations were made to reuse materials of a storied Inn when building this family’s Cashiers retreat. The feeling is that of a classic North Carolina summer cottage but elevated. The reclaimed chestnut floors, stained wood walls and ceilings, and large national park-style steel windows give a respectful nod to the past while feeling happy, inviting, and modernized.