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We Are Handcrafted
Old Tree Builders

About

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Louis Kahn

Old Tree Builders is a small design-build company with over 20 years of experience, located in Black Mountain, NC. We specialize in handcrafting green energy efficient homes, additions, and even smaller remodel jobs. From foundation to fine woodworking we have you covered.

We are committed to sustainability and always try  to incorporate these practices into our building projects. We work with clients from the very beginning turning their dreams into reality.

Hello & Welcome!

I am Stephen Young. I've been honing my building craft for over 20 years.

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Stephen Young
Owner

Nice to meet!

In addition to our team of craftsmen, we also have a network of excellent, responsible, friendly, and highly skilled subcontractors .

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Crew
Backbone

Whats Up!

My favorite apprentice, or I'm his chauffeur depending on who you talk to.

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Family
Heart & Soul

Services

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau
We build just about anything that can be imagined.
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Form follows  function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined  in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Jeff Bezos
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein
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There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man.

George Nakashima
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Portfolio

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All works Current Past Inspiration

Why Choose Us?

We’re Artisans

: A skilled craft worker who makes or creates things by hand.

We’re Creative

To be creative is to let little pieces of your heart go & place them into each project you make. -- Pat Bravo

We have magic

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We love minimalism

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We’re responsible

I stand for  what I stand on.   -- Edward Abbey

We're Friendly

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What people say?

The heft and feel of a well-worn handle, The sight of shavings that curl from a blade; The logs in the woodpile, the sentiment of huge beams in an old-fashioned house; The smell of fresh cut timber and the pungent fragrance of burning leaves; The crackle of kindling and the kiss of burning logs. Abundant to all the needs of man, how poor the world would be without wood.

Eric Sloane

What people say?

Perpetual moderness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Emerson

What people say?

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

George Nakishima

Latest News All News in our blog

New Design Trends
John Doe | 10 December
Mixing textures can add depth.
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Minimalistic Design Forever
John Doe | 9 December
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Nail’n Wood 
John Doe | 7 December
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Contact

Call Us
828-231-8485
Address
101 Kimberly Road Black Mountain, NC 28711
Email
oldtreebuilders@gmail.com
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