FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
R. H. O’Malley Inc. Finds Antique Wisconsin Barns a
New Home in
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
San Diego, CA. February 27, 2009: Upon entering the great
room of the new 11,000 square foot home on
Mimulus Drive in Rancho Santa Fe, California, your eyes are
immediately drawn upward to the massive, weathered beams that
form the rich texture of the ceiling of the large space. Each
hand-hewn timber is unique and carries within each adze and
broad axe mark, the history of the late 1800s Wisconsin barns
that were the original homes of these strong oak supports.
The custom home, in the exclusive area known as the Covenant
and recently completed by builder R.H. O’Malley, Inc.,
presented some unique construction challenges. “Since
each beam is different, we had to design and fabricate custom
hangers to accommodate the varying dimensions,” according
to Matt O’Malley, president of RHO. “In some cases
we had to place the (very heavy) beam, adjust the hanger, and
replace the beam up to three times to get exactly the right
fit – this is significantly different than the building
process used with your standard dimensional lumber produced
from mills today, but I think the result was well worth it.”
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Mark O’Malley, COO of the firm, adds, “It was
personally gratifying to me that we were able to really enhance
the beauty of this new custom home with these historic and
still very strong timbers that might otherwise have ended up
in a landfill somewhere.” Both white oak beams and red
elm barn siding, reclaimed from two Wisconsin barns, were used
extensively throughout this Spanish-Mediterranean style home
to add unmatched warmth and character to the new residence
that, to those of a certain age, are reminiscent of Ben Cartwright’s “Ponderosa.”
While looking up at the finished product it is easy to imagine
that the tortured spirits of those still-frigid Wisconsin dairy
cows who inhabited the original barns, have now…finally,
found eternal peace along the warm, lush green fairway of the
4th hole in California’s Rancho Santa Fe.
R.H. O’Malley Inc. is
a southern California custom home builder celebrating its twenty-third
anniversary this year.
For more information, please contact
R. H. O’Malley Inc.
Alicia O’Malley
(877) 314-3040
Website: www.rhomalley.com
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