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They also learned that BRT had bought those “timber rafts,” and stored them in Christiansburg. Those rafts would be cleaned, the outer skins planed away, leaving beautifully aged douglas fir beams eight by ten inches wide. The Scovilles had found the kind of house they wanted and the material.
The next step was perhaps the most interesting and unexpected for the Scovilles: choosing the architect. Mr. Scoville had heard about the first architectural firm they visited but -no longer remembers how. This company, Reader and Swartz, a husband and wife team, had its office in Winchester. The architects were very direct. They told the Scovilles, “If we’re selected, we’ll interview you, give you homework assignments and continue interviews and homework until we understand your core values. And then we’ll design a home which will have soul for you.”
The Scovilles signed on then and there. They knew they had found their architects. So far the building of this house was proceeding as though by magic.
The whole project from that first meeting with Beth Reader and Chuck Swartz to moving into the house took two years. The interview and homework took two and a half months.
Then the Scovilles waited. Finally they got a phone call to come to Winchester. The model they looked at that day is exactly the finished look. Its lines shape, size, everything was exactly right for the Scovilles. The building itself took only one year.
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