Items can have a life long after their initial purpose has been filled. A perfect example is Mike and Susan Jubie’s home on Christy Lane.

The house, built with a heavy reliance on reclaimed and refurbished items, was purchased by the Jubies a year and a half ago from Ty Barhaug and his family who had taken a small, rustic house with wooden siding and transformed it into a unique, nearly 3,000-square-foot home.

One of the property’s most eye-catching features, aside from a well built tree house — a neighborhood favorite — is what’s referred to as the roundhouse. On the far side of the Jubie’s home is a round, two story portion, the first half containing the master bedroom, while the top half was Barhaug’s art studio and now Mike’s office. 

The Jubies, who came to Powell from South Dakota, owned a similar home in southern Oregon — their first as a married couple, “it just kind of drew us back … the wood and … it looks a lot like what our home looked like back when we first got married.”

A lot of old material is used in the house, Mike said, while items such as the windows, electrical and plumbing are new. 

“But then there’s a lot of older things that are inside the home, a lot of old steel that was kind of resurrected from old buildings, old timbers that you’ll experience when you go inside, the outside … short of all the cedar is new,” Mike said.

The home’s cedar siding was carefully cut by Barhaug and his sons to create an intricate pattern, while the support beams for the porch (harvested logs) have marks from a beaver on the base. 

Speaking of old wood, a large high mountain cedar (this one’s maybe 150 years old), first taken down the mountain by the Barhaugs, has been moved in the backyard to create a sort of courtyard area where it and a bench sit amongst a variety of fossils and petrified wood.

Inside the home, the focus on reclaimed wood becomes even more apparent. The ceiling beams are beautifully weathered, some including old tool markings or notches from their previous life, and pieces of burl serve as support beams, including one for a large kitchen table. The kitchen flooring is reclaimed and the doors around the utility room are handmade.

“We’re the beneficiaries of somebody else’s hard work,” Mike said. 

Heading towards the downstairs bedroom is reclaimed steel siding; the floor of the bedroom was made using 2-inch cuts of log and epoxy; the neighboring bathroom’s floor, Susan thinks, was made by ripping and layering old brown paper bags with epoxy.

The master bedroom is in the roundhouse. Unlike many master bedrooms, the room utilizes an open floor plan where the bedroom area opens up to allow for a large round bath with a wrap around partition. Past that is the sink and a shower, once again with a river walk floor. 

“We had always thought, ‘Why do I have to walk through a doorway in my bedroom to get into the shower,’” Jubie said. “We actually designed a home that we’re gonna have built that was all open and then we walked into this.”

Up the stairs is Mike’s office, with fish caught from around the world hanging on the wall behind his desk. The walls and ceiling are made of reclaimed wood of varying lengths and colors.

The office space opens out to a balcony and from there you can see the Jubies’ addition to the home — a shop extension and workout space. They were careful to keep with the cedar lined aesthetic of the home, reusing siding and bringing their own reclaimed materials.

Josh Obermiller of Bonfire Construction built the addition and was “really willing to work with our ideas and having me help source a lot of this siding material … he was very instrumental in getting it done the way we wanted it,” Mike said. 

 The green metal siding on the back end of the shop extension was old roofing brought down from South Dakota. Mike wanted to use rusted metal and while they found a small amount to join the new structure to the old, they just couldn’t find enough for the whole building. 

On the front end are two lights, originally planned for the scrapyard. Mike advocated for their reinstallation when the building was complete — you can’t find them anywhere, he said, sometimes an item lives past its original intent.