Clutterbuck Construction

Beautiful log house for sale...Will reconstruct

2011-01-13T20:43:00.006-05:00

CAVAN STREET PROJECT PORT HOPE

2008-04-11T17:13:00.001-04:00

This image was taken of this beautiful Georgian style home after I completed the front entrance and stairs.

2008-04-11T17:12:00.001-04:00

This is the finished product of my design & construction of this plantation style verandah, accentuating the grandeur of this one of a kind home, located in historic Port Hope.

2008-04-11T17:10:00.001-04:00

This is a before shot of the main living room in progress.

2008-04-11T17:05:00.003-04:00

The attention to fine detail of the main living room is evident in the final product...

Custom Cabinets

2008-04-11T16:14:00.000-04:00

These cupboards were custom designed for this century home and the clients specific needs.

Architectural Heritage Buildings

2005-05-25T21:21:00.000-04:00

Clutterbuck Construction sources and buys interesting old schoolhouses and churches for salvage or restoration. Salvation for these unique structures often comes through reconstruction, as these churches are born again as heritage homes with character.

This church building was purchased for its unique architectural elements and materials, including spectacular vaulted roof trusses and original pine flooring, that will be reconstructed in heritage homes.

Traditional Craftsmanship | Modern Construction

2005-04-27T11:57:00.000-04:00

"The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans."
- Peter Morville, 2002

Peter's an information architect, not a building architect. He consults to website designers, not homebuilders; but his quotation above is perfectly at home on our website. To his wisdom, we'd add that as construction materials have changed over the years, so have the behaviours of real humans in their homes. Yet, the more things change in the world, the more it feels comfortable in the home to have authentic heritage elements in harmony with modern conveniences. Many people appreciate the traditional craftsmanship of a heritage log home; few want to live in an historic log cabin. Working closely with real humans to custom design, build and renovate their period homes, with the perfect balance of traditional craftsmanship and modern construction, is what we do at Clutterbuck Construction Corporation.

In England, there's a company called Shape Your Space Ltd., which approaches their specialty of transforming period houses into modern functional homes as we do here in Canada. Peter Morville, the information architect quoted above, would probably be as impressed with their excellent website design, as we are with their construction sensibilities.

We're Always Under Construction

2005-02-10T14:29:00.000-05:00

We're rebuilding our website to keep you better informed about what's happening at Clutterbuck Construction. Please bear with us as we renovate. As always, you can reach us by telephone or email. We're as busy as ever, but would love to hear from you if you've got time to give us a call.

If you arrived here looking for our website with the wonderful photos of Moody's Log House, we've added more photographs of the interiors.

Panoramic Porches

2003-11-21T22:41:00.000-05:00

We successfully completed our scheduled work for the season, enclosing the grand porches of the log house on Lake Muskoka. The custom windows of these enclosed porches were designed in four panel modules between posts. This enables the two center windows of each module to open fully against the fixed panels in summertime for maximum air circulation. The following photo shows the open window detail from the interior view.

Here's what these spectacular porches looked like a few weeks ago, during early stages of construction.

Moody's Log House

2003-07-31T22:06:00.000-04:00

Moody's ready to let his friends get a first look at the construction details of his new Log House on Lake Muskoka. This modern home is reconstructed from three log houses with authentic materials.

You can see from this corner detail exactly what we mean by:

Traditional Craftsmanship | Modern Construction

People often wonder what a reconstructed log home looks like on the inside. Here are a few photographs of the interior details of Moody's Log House, shown during the finishing stages of construction.

Log Cottage at Parry Sound

2002-01-21T12:30:00.000-05:00

When a job seems impossible, we often get the call.

One such project was a log cabin in a remote location near Parry Sound. It was the dead of Winter and the client needed roof trusses put in place on a log cabin, which was under construction on a cliff.

Despite the 40 degrees below zero temperatures, the biggest problem was that a crane could not get into this remote location until Spring. The problem was not unlike that faced by early pioneers, so we solved it in the same way the pioneers did—we hoisted the trusses into place manually.

Texas Dog Trot

2001-03-22T19:01:00.000-05:00

Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
1800 N. Congress Avenue
(512) 936-8746

Brimming with pride, this museum dedicated to the spirit of Texas opens its doors in April of 2001. The museum includes 3 stories of exhibits focusing on 3 categories: Texas Land, Texas History and Texas Identity and Opportunity. Each exhibit is designed to highlight a different chapter in the story of Texas. Also housed in the museum are two theatres: the Imax Theatre and the one of a kind multi-media-capable Texas Spirit Theatre.

Three floors of exhibits -- three themes as big as Texas history: Land, Identity and Opportunity. The exhibits at The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum will surround you with the sights, sounds and (sometimes) smells of Texas history. Each floor of exhibits highlights important chapters in The Story of Texas through objects, media programs, and recreated environments.

Our contribution to the creation of this life-sized experiential exhibition was the construction of the Texas Dog Trot, a unique example of a pioneer log house of the period. For this project, we lived in Austin for a period of about 6 weeks.

Here's the authentic Texas Dog Trot we built inside the museum: