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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.
78LOG HOME LIVINGJULY
“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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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.
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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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HOME LIVINGJULY
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LIVING85
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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