WarmStone Newsletter

Often a love affair with a Tulikivi masonry heater begins with a photograph. Love at first sight and the image imprints on your mind until it’s time to bring the dream home.

Architect Rann Haight began drawing about the same time he learned to walk, and can draw, paint, or illustrate anything. Visit www.rannhaight.com to check out his portfolio, not only of architectural drawings and gorgeous buildings he’s designed, but also of his art.

Architect Rann Haight continued his career from his Idaho home office while his wife Samm worked at a local bank and their three daughters attended local schools. He picked up their children and took them to piano lessons. Samm picked up groceries after work.

The Haights typically burn about 1-2 cords of wood per winter. Birch is the best wood to burn because of its efficiency, but because they enjoy the crackling sound of the fire, they mostly burn larch, fir, and hemlock.

Architect Rann Haight was ahead of his time and today, by choice, is behind the times. Leading a team in the 1980s, they developed sustainable and accessible building designs before LEEDS and ADA requirements challenged architects with strict rules.

Over the next five years, Warmstone Co-owner and Crew Foreman Philip Bullard and Operations Manager Ashley Juhnke are buying the business from founder Ron Pihl.

Zachary Jones was born and raised on the 24,000-acre Twodot Land and Livestock ranch south of Harlowton, Montana. He was greeted daily by vast prairie grasslands and rolling hills under the Big Sky, peppered with the Black Angus/Hereford cattle that his family raised for five generations.

Food always taste better in a wood fired stove. Knowing how to prepare the bakeoven is a skill developed over years. Here Ron Pihl and Doug Catlin give you their secrets gained from years of experience.

John McIntosh has good sense about building quality homes in Teton Valley, Idaho. He began Snake River Builders in 1993 after thirteen years’ experience building log homes in the Jackson, Wyoming area.

Food always taste better in a wood fired stove. Knowing how to prepare the bakeoven is a skill developed over years. Here Ron Pihl of WarmStone Fireplaces and Designs gives you his secrets gained from years of experience.

The drive along the snow-packed road from Jackson Hole to Wilson, Wyoming was surreal. The temperature – a chilly nine degrees Fahrenheit – and the accompanying humidity delicately kissed each branch and twig of every tree along the waterways. The landscape on this January day was comfortable in its coldness.