The New New England Farm House

Architect blends classic New England farmhouse with contemporary urban loft, and completes it with furniture and details he makes himself.

Henry Miller is more than an architect- he's a wood worker, iron worker, welder and machinist. He combines these skills and minimalist design aesthetic to create architecture and details that are informed as much by 21st century technology and building methodologies as they are by old world craftsmanship and techniques. Example:

The bespoke kitchen cabinets are constructed using dovetail joint drawers and drawer glides, but the shelf brackets were designed on the computer, and the pattern sent over to a Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) router for fabrication. This type of juxtaposition characterizes most of Henry's work.
A number of the furniture pieces he designed and fabricated for this home are constructed entirely from reclaimed lumber- some left on the site once construction was complete, some from a dismantled New Hampshire barn, and some from a naturally felled Sugar Maple that came down in his neighbor's yard after a storm.

Henry designed and built all the steel railings and structural supports for the house. These include what his builders referred to as "the basket"- the balcony on the front facade that covers the entryway. Although this was designed only to carry plants and trees, it's so structurally sound the carpenters used it as staging as they sided the front facade of the home. "At any given time, we had two big guys, their tools, and probably 800lbs of siding material up there that needed to be supported. I had to engineer and build it to carry this kind of load."