TIMBERFRAME, POST and BEAM HOMES

living-room pieces and an area rug in neutral tones, using occasional tables and lamps to add subtle focal points to the room.

Two wings, angled off the entrance foyer, hose bedrooms and baths and the other necessities of daily life, such as a mud room, laundry and garage. The use of stick built construction for the wings not only made it easy to hide wiring and plumbing, but it injected a degree of privacy into a home with such open living spaces. Still, the same feeling of light and openness remains, and the natural tones carry through in the choices made for the walls, carpets, tiles and stonework—there are just no beams to work around. The master suite is finished in shades of oyster white, and the sitting area with fireplace provides the perfect place to settle when snowflakes fall against the windows.

While the house is designed to bring out-doors in, the landscaping conspires to draw you outside. The wide terraces front and back beg for meals to be served, wine to be drunk, sunsets to be watched. H. Keith Wagner of Burlington, Vermont, did the design work and Bruce Paine’s crew built the many stone walls.

This is a house without an ego. There is never the sense of anyone—architect, builder or owner—beating his chest and saying, “Look at me, aren’t I clever?” On the contrary, Scofield says, “If people end up thing they designed the whole house, that’s fine with me.”

For this home, the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts.

Nancy Wolfe Stead, a Stowe-based Realtor, spotlights unique Stowe-area properties in each issue of the Stowe Guild & Magazine. She also writes human interest, historical, travel and sporting articles for national publications, as well as weekly column in the Stowe Reporter newspaper.