WarmStone Newsletter

By Karen Reinhart December 2, 2025
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.
By Karen Reinhart December 2, 2025
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.
By Karen Reinhart December 2, 2025
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.
By Karen Reinhart December 1, 2025
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.
By Karen Reinhart August 18, 2025
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.
By Karen Reinhart March 27, 2025
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.
By Doug Catlin & Ron Pihl March 26, 2025
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.
By Karen Reinhart March 21, 2025
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.
By Ron Pihl March 21, 2025
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.
By Karen Reinhart March 14, 2025
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.
By Karen Reinhart December 20, 2024
A bone chilling day that brought two lovers of geography and Yellowstone National Park to appreciate the bone warming comfort of one of natures geological wonders—soapstone. Where wood burning and environmental thoughtfulness work hand in glove to warm the spirit.
By Karen Reinhart July 27, 2024
An evening with friends, family and food. A creative pizza gathering under the big sky of Paradise Valley Montana. Ron’s new bake oven is a beautiful labor of love, framing a view that could relax anyone—large, grassy fields stretch out to the north of their property with the Absaroka Mountains to the east, the Gallatin Range to the west, and no neighbors close by.
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