LARAMIE, WY–(Marketwire – January 29, 2009) – Centennial Woods, the Laramie-based company that maintains and reclaims snowfence from the prairies and mountainsides of Wyoming to create its line of interior and exterior specialty wood products for residential and commercial use around the world, announced today that Mountain Living Magazine has completed and officially unveiled its Cordillera, Colorado Natural Dream Home. The year-long design and build journey is exclusively chronicled in the January and February issues of the magazine, along with profiles about the Rocky Mountain region’s top eco-friendly ideas, products and companies, including Centennial Woods. The home is on track to earn the LEED for Homes Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council later this year.

“When we discovered Centennial Woods reclaimed snowfence, we knew we had to incorporate it into the home,” said Margie Hamrick, president of Ecoexistence, Mountain Living’s Natural Dream Home developer. “Using Centennial Woods reclaimed snowfence we created bunk beds, desks and other eco-friendly custom furniture that is beautiful and truly one of a kind.”

“The Natural Dream Home was designed to include reclaimed lumber inside and out,” said Grant Porder, Centennial Woods vice president of customer care. “Mountain Living Magazine, Ecoexistence and Associates Three selected Centennial Woods reclaimed snowfence because of its reputation for delivering gorgeous, regionally reclaimed products with a truly green pedigree. Our collection of specialty wood products are strong and true, and provide a more robust design and aesthetic value than any other reclaimed wood product line in the world.”

Centennial Woods products have been specified and selected for Mountain Living’s Natural Dream Homes two years in a row. Despite abundantly available reclaimed barn wood inventory on the east coast, Centennial Woods reclaimed snowfence also was unanimously preferred by Southern Living magazine’s architects, builders and designers, who used Centennial Woods reclaimed exterior siding for the Southern Living Idea House in Asheville, North Carolina last summer.

About Centennial Woods

Before Centennial Woods began harvesting Wyoming snowfence, older boards were often left on the frame too long and burned or thrown in a landfill when replaced. Centennial Woods discovered its strength and beauty and vowed to rescue and reuse it.

Since 1999, Centennial Woods has been maintaining and harvesting snowfence from the mountainsides and open prairies of Wyoming for second use inside and outside residential and commercial properties. To support its reclamation mission, Centennial Woods has developed an international market for this green Wyoming export. To date, Centennial Woods has reclaimed 5 million linear feet of Wyoming snowfence, the equivalent of 85 miles; keeping more than 9,000 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere and saving the state of Wyoming and other entities more than $9 million.

Centennial Woods reclaimed Wyoming snowfence is naturally dried for decades by the Wyoming wind, which produces an intensely beautiful, perfectly dried, strong and true reclaimed board. Centennial Woods is a member of the US Green Building Council (www.usgbc.org) and is proud to be one of Wyoming’s great green products. Learn more on the web at? www.centennialwoods.com.

MERIDIAN, ID–(Marketwire – January 27, 2009)

In October 2008, Mountain Architects launched a new line of log cabin plans referred to as the Rustic Luxury™ series. With each passing month, people worldwide have watched the team at Mountain Architects transform simple, low-end cabin designs that log home enthusiasts know all too well, to distinctive cabin designs blending rustic elements with high end finishes and inspiring design attributes, at attractive turnkey costs.

With the close of the first month in 2009 just around the corner, Mountain Architects releases its final design in the Rustic Luxury™ Log Cabins & Plans series. The Truckee log cabin plan is a unique log post and beam design with stone integrated throughout. This single-level log cabin home, with just over 1,500 square feet of livable space, brings together rustic tradition with a touch of elegance. Its layout is simple yet offers the perfect blend of warmth combined with attractive natural materials.

Work one-on-one with Mountain Architects to design your own Rustic Luxury™ Log Cabin home. Or, let Mountain Architects modify the Truckee to fit your own lifestyle and architectural taste:

– Change its layout or size to accommodate your lifestyle.
– Choose between handcrafted log, milled log, and timber frame, in combination with other materials that will make your home stand out.
– Make your own architectural statement by varying roof ridge lines, roof pitches, corners, etc.

Learn more about how you can customize a log home plan with Mountain Architects.

A look over the past three months reveals an eclectic and moving collection of cabin plans designed for discriminating homeowners who seek the best in mountain style living, but in a smaller, more intimate home. The Rustic Luxury™ series kicked off in October 2008 with the introduction of the Telluride, a milled log cabin home featuring a unique combination of stone, bark siding, beautifully crafted character logs, glass and milled log walls. In November, the team at Mountain Architects released the Trian, a cozy timber frame cabin home complete with barreled tile roofing and stone commonly seen in the French countryside. And, more recently, Mountain Architects showcased its December plan, the Targhee — a three-level cabin design with a master suite on each level. View the entire Rustic Luxury™ Log Cabin collection at http://www.precisioncraft.com/loghomeplans/LuxuryLogCabins.html.

What’s next for the team at Mountain Architects? As a sponsor of the 2009 GREEN LOG Homes & Lifestyle Awards (an awards program created to shine the spotlight on those companies that are working to provide green alternatives in the building industry), Mountain Architects now turns their attention to highlighting green design techniques. Stay tuned for an exciting kick off to a 3 month long endeavor focused on designing and building green, including examples of green homes designed and built over the last couple of years.

Together, Mountain Architects and PrecisionCraft offer a proven team approach. From initial design through completed construction, your Mountain Architects and PrecisionCraft team is there every step of the way. Visit PrecisionCraft’s Log Homes & Timber Frame Design Center at www.precisioncraft.com to learn more about creating your dream home!