Noldesign Puts 8-Ton Chimney Cap on Unique House

Noldesign Puts 8-Ton Chimney Cap on Unique House
What may be the world's largest residential chimney cap was set on an already massive 144-ton chimney, the centerpiece of a one-of-a-kind timber and stone design-build home on Merrymeeting Lake.

Roger Nold, the chief architect and principal of Noldesign, a design-build architect company, has a passion for designing and building custom luxury homes that incorporate massive natural elements.

For each custom home design plan, he sends his team of stone and timber experts into the forests of Northern New England to find giant boulders, entire trees or 8-ton granite stones that become the signature elements of each custom built home.

When asked about the use of such unusual materials in his design Nold said, "When a client wants their weekend, or second home to provide retreat and renewal far from their primary home - this distance is not measured just in miles, but in the emotions their home evokes.

We use as-found materials - mountain stone as it was sheared by ice from the mountain's face, giant boulders as they lay where glaciers left them, and not just logs, but full, unshaped trees - to take our clients into a physical and emotional place far beyond their everyday environment - to make them feel at home on this planet in a way that is breathtaking and primal in its directness."