The Nature of Luxury Redefined


By chance or on purpose you have found an authentically good thing. Highland Craftsmen Inc is best known as "The Original Poplar Bark Shingle Siding Manufacturer" and designer of natural green building products. As rare as a US manufacturing company is today, HC is a company that does much more than just make and sell products.

We have designed this site so that you, the discerning client have all the tools needed to make informed decisions about your purchasing power. Our clients care about design aesthetic, product function, longevity, sustainability and a company’s social impact. You know the meaning of real value and you want quality without compromise.

Because there are vast differences between the manufacturing of wood sidings and our premiere product, Bark House brand shingle siding, we decided to get serious about how we express what we do. For years you have known the Bark House brand as the mark of distinction in all natural poplar bark shingle siding.  We begin everything we do with sound research and follow up with unwavering commitment to quality.  We created this industry and maintain ourselves as The Bark House Experts.  Third party certifications will allow you to clearly see what makes us so unique.

GoBlueRidge.net – Three Area Businesses Receive Grant Money to Continue Green Work – Constantly Updated High Country NC News Source

November 19, 2009

From GoBlueRidge.net
Written by Adam Hicks Thursday, November 19 2009
Small businesses in Watauga, Mitchell, and Catawba County were three of 18 that received grant money from the state to continue their work in green initiatives.

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Highland Craftsmen Inc. Receives Cradle to Cradle Gold Certification

November 10, 2009

Press Release – For Immediate Release
Contact: Chris McCurry
Tel: 828-765-9010
Email: chris@barkhouse.com
Spruce Pine, NC, November 10th, 2009 – Bark House® brand exterior shingle siding is now Cradle to Cradle CertifiedCM at the Gold Level. Products are rated by C2C for material content, recyclability, manufacturing characteristics and the company’s social accountability. This is a high honor [...]

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Bark House part of the Natural Elegance Collection

November 2, 2009

Mayland Court furniture incorporating Bark House laminates is featured in Best of the Market section of Furniture Today.

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Bark House – The leader in rustic indigenous building products

October 22, 2009

Bark houses originated as dwellings for indigenous peoples.  Certain barks peel easily from trees during different seasons.  Because complicated milling equipment was not necessary and bark was known as the protection for the tree, it was an easy transition to use the material for personal and family shelter.  It made sense.

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Bark House Massive Slabs in Furniture Today

October 19, 2009

Meridian tables featuring Bark House Massive Wooden Slabs gets great write up in Furniture Today

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Our State – North Carolina

July 1, 2009
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July 01, 2009
“A number of the old bark siding structures are still standing today, but the same can’t be said for the source of the bark. Due to it’s resistance to rot, the bark of the American chestnut was the choice for making shingles. But a blight that was accidentally introduced from Asia in the [...]

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Award-winning High Camp home featured in Tahoe Quarterly

April 28, 2009
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Reno Gazette-Journal
April 28, 2009
“…According to the magazine, the kitchen cabinets were handcrafted from pine finished at a sixth-generation California steam mill, while the square nails came from Tremont Nail, the country’s oldest nail manufacturers. Poplar bark shingles panel the walls of the first floor powder room…”

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Bass Pro building nearly finished

April 18, 2009
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Toledo Free Press
“Be it door hardware, siding or the store’s two glass-paneled elevators, many of the buildings elements are trimmed with reclaimed barn wood, fiberglass logs, stamped tin, bark shingles or cedar-based siding…”

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Bark House on ecohome about poplar shingle siding

March 13, 2009
Bark House Poplar Shingle Siding on ecohome magazine

www.ecohomemagazine.com
March 13, 2009
“Poplar Bark House shingle siding is made with bark that is removed from yellow poplar trees before they are shipped to sawmills for use in furniture and other manufacturing.”
Go to ecohome article about poplar bark siding.

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A Woodsy Neighbor in the City

March 5, 2009
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American Bungalow
March 05, 2009

“…In 1916, the expanding National Park Service strongly encouraged the use of bark for service buildings…”

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