The Nature of Luxury Redefined
Highland Craftsmen Inc is best known as "The Original Poplar Bark Shingle Siding Manufacturer" and designer of natural green building products. Quality and Style differentiate us.
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.
There are vast differences between the manufacturing of wood sidings and our premiere product, Bark House brand shingle siding. 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.
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 [...]
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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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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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October 19, 2009
Meridian tables featuring Bark House Massive Wooden Slabs gets great write up in Furniture Today
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July 1, 2009
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 [...]
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April 28, 2009
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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April 18, 2009
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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March 13, 2009
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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March 5, 2009
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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March 1, 2009
WNC – Mountain Living in Western North Carolina March 01, 2009 “Even more important than the aesthetic appeal of bark shingles, however, is their environmental friendliness…”
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