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STORY BY Amy Laughinghouse • PHOTOGRAPHY BY O’Neal Arnold
YOU CAN TAKE THE CITY OUT OF THE GIRL WHEN IT MEANS
BUILDING A LOG HOME ON A KENTUCKY HORSE FARM.
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“There’s no place else I would rather
be,” Claudia Lauber says. When she’s
not at work, her days are filled with
caring for her horses and canning the
bounty from her vegetable gardens. “I
tell everybody I’m living my dream,”
she says.
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80LOG HOME LIVINGJULY 2005
T
hirteen years ago, Claudia
Lauber never could have pic-
tured herself settling down in
a log home. “I was a subdivision-living,
must-have-my-facial, must- have-my-
nails-done kind of woman,” she says with
a laugh. “I used to be such a priss-pot be-
fore I met Marc.”
Marc is Claudia’s husband of nine
years, and, in a sense, Professor Henry
Higgins to her Eliza Doolittle. Only, in-
stead of taking an endearingly smudge-
faced street urchin and turning her into
a perfect lady—a la Audrey Hepburn in
“My Fair Lady”—he took a perfect lady
and turned her into an endearingly
smudge-faced country gal with her own
manure spreader, tool belt and 3,000-
square-foot pine log home in Spencer
County, Kentucky.
“Marc just loves to be outdoors,” says
Claudia of her husband, a chiropractor
who put himself through school by work-
ing construction. “He taught me how to
play basketball, how to play football and
how to use tools.” When he presented
her with her first horse on her 45th birth-
day, she finally gave up on the manicures
and other city-girl trappings once and
for all. “As far as I’m concerned, noth-
ing is too dirty or gross that has to do
with a horse,” explains Claudia, who now
cares for three “babies,” a half-Arabhalf-
paint, an Appaloosa and a draft horse gen-
tle enough for her grandchildren to ride.
TOP LEFT: “Marc went down to the
creek with his tractor and got one rock
at a time to lay out our walkway and
our little garden area,” Claudia says.
(They also used stones from their
property for their fireplace.) “We spent
a year just landscaping.”
BOTTOM LEFT: The Lauber’s home is
built from 6-inch V-notch eastern
white pine logs with authentic dovetail
corners. Narrow wood channels
between the logs could be filled with
chinking, but the couple preferred to
forgo it.


Claudia and Marc Lauber furnished their home with pieces
collected on their travels around the Southwest, as well as
from their favorite shops in Kentucky. The bureau of shal-
low drawers to the left of the fireplace is an antique sur-
veyor’s chest. Beside the armchair, a milking stool serves
as the perfect spot to rest a cup of steaming coffee.
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Claudia and Marc Lauber furnished their home with pieces
collected on their travels around the Southwest, as well as
from their favorite shops in Kentucky. The bureau of shal-
low drawers to the left of the fireplace is an antique sur-
veyor’s chest. Beside the armchair, a milking stool serves
as the perfect spot to rest a cup of steaming coffee.
Y 2005 LOG HOME LIVING81


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She’s a Country Girl
“The more I got into nature, the more I
wanted to live in the country,” says
Claudia. So she and Marc bought a farm
an hour outside town, thinking they
would eventually build their retirement
home there. “Then we decided we didn’t
want to wait until we retired to live our
dreams,” she explains. That’s when the
couple started looking for land closer to
Marc’s office and the country store where
Claudia plies her public relations and
marketing skills.
In 2001, a newspaper advertisement
led Marc to a 20-acre parcel 15 minutes
from town. “I came out here and saw the
woods and the open ground, and it was the
best of both worlds,” he recalls. “I like
the woods, but we needed open ground for
the horses. There was a place to dig a
pond and a creek running through it. I
couldn’t improve on it if I wanted.”
Once they found this pristine prop-
erty, the idea of building a log home there
seemed the obvious choice. “It’s so natu-
ral and fits in with the environment,”
Claudia says. “It was unique, and we could
design exactly what we wanted.”
Marc and Claudia were impressed
with the log packages that Appalachian
Log Structures, based in Ripley, West
Virginia, had provided in their area, and
they liked the company’s willingness to
alter its standard blueprints. “They were
just really wonderful to work with,” says
Marc, who added multiple windows, a
covered porch, additional fireplaces and
square footage to the “Richmond” plan.
While the company’s drafting de-
partment labored over those changes,
Marc and Claudia spent their weekends
LEFT: Marc designed and built the
kitchen cabinets, which Claudia then
painted a cheerful green to contrast
with the pine log walls. The mis-
matched trio of Tiffany lamps over the
island and the whimsical backsplash
behind the six-burner stove, featuring
Mexican tiles painted with farm ani-
mals, conveys the home’s lighthearted,
easy-going personality.
JULY 2005 LOG HOME LIVING83


camping on the farm. “Marc brought his
tractor out, and we had a blast with my old-
est daughter and her husband building a
barn,” Claudia says. “When construction
on the house started, wherever there was
a piece of flooring, that’s where we would
camp that weekend. When they put our
plumbing fixtures in, Marc and I hauled
water up and threw it in the bathtub and
took a bath,” she recalls.
Even before the home was complete,
the farm hosted some rollicking celebrations.
“One night, Marc’s son had a party out
here with big bonfires, and one October,
we had a birthday party for a whole bunch
of family members. Everybody brought
instruments they could play—or not,”
quips Claudia, who accompanied the rag-
tag band with her knee cymbals.
Making a House a Home
A year after breaking ground, the couple
made the log home their permanent res-
idence. “We think the house really re-
flects our personalities,” says Claudia,
who decorated it herself in a style she
flippantly describes as “Cowboy meets
Mission at the Ski Lodge.” Amber light
glows from Tiffany lamps and mica lamp-
shades. Oriental and Native American
carpets in rich jewel tones warm the wide-
planked tongue-and-groove pine floors,
which Marc and Claudia laid with the
help of dedicated friends. Antiques are
mixed with comfortable leather armchairs
and the simple, soothing lines of Stickley
furniture made of quarter-sawn oak,
which Marc loves for the striking pattern
of the grain.
Ask him what his favorite feature of
the home is, and without missing a beat,
Marc replies, “My wife.” But he also loves
RIGHT: “Our bedroom actually looks
like a tree house,” says Claudia, who
furnished the balcony with a wicker
chaise that beckons on lazy after-
noons. Inside, furnishings blend with
the golden tones of the pine, which the
Laubers covered with clear stain.
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The master bath is a luxurious retreat
complete with wall-mounted faucets
that drain water into sleek copper
vessel sinks and an enormous soaking
tub for relaxing baths. A fireplace
warms the room on cold nights.
HOME DETAILS
■Square footage:3,000
(not including basement)
■Package price:$$150,000
■Log producer:Appalachian Log
Structures
the kitchen. “It has 25-foot-tall ceilings and
doors that open to the deck and look out
toward the pond and the horses. It’s just
a bright, beautiful space,” explains Marc,
who custom-built all the cabinetry him-
self, with the help of his friend, trim car-
penter Gavin Caster. “It was a good excuse
for him to buy every tool known to man,”
Claudia jokes.
Marc also built the splendidly de-
tailed mantel for the see- through fire-
place shared by the master bedroom and
bath—the one amenity that Claudia says
she couldn’t live without. “When it’s a
cold and dreary Saturday morning, we
turn on the fireplace, fill that tub up and
get in with our coffee, and it’s just the
best,” she sighs, adding that she has a
newfound appreciation for the simple
pleasures in life. “I used to get jewelry for
presents,” she says. “Now I get power
tools. I really have changed my views on
the things I think are important.” And
judging by the sound of her laughter,
that’s just fine. ■
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