Northbrook Stone Manor Range Hood Design
A pre move-in tour with SSDB Master Carpenter Mike Olson of a 10,000 square foot luxury home in Northbrook, IL – including the engineering of a custom range hood for the kitchen of a 10,000 square foot luxury home that looks like solid stone due to a combination of MDF, plywood, drywall, curved framing, trim and a custom plaster painting technique.
Enjoy our video series of this new construction design-build in progress!
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 1_Excavation
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 2_Foundation Forms
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 3_Chandelier Install
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 4_First Floor Tour
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 5 _Guest Bathrooms
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 6 _Hobby Wing
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 7 _Kids Study
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 8 _Kitchen Tour
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 9 _Living Room Tour
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 10_Mudroom
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 11_Primary Bedroom
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 12_ Primary Ensuite
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 13_Range Hood Design
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 14_Screened in Porch
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 15_Indoor Sport Court
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 16_Stone Façade
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 17.1 Build to Beauty
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 17.2 Build to Beauty 2
- Northbrook Stone Manor Ep 18_Project Overview
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Video Transcript
Hi, this is Mike from Scott Simpson Design Build. We’re highlighting this hood that we ended up building in-house. As you can see it looks like solid stone. We ended up engineering this using a combination of MDF, plywood, drywall, curved framing members here. Our painter, John, over here is doing a plaster technique to really give it that stone look.
One of the benefits to doing a surround this way as opposed to doing solid pieces of stone, number one is weight. In solid stone this is about 2,700 pounds. We would need to potentially add more foundation components to the house. Steel beams in the floor, steel beams in the wall, and a bunch of steel up here just to keep this thing in place. There is engineered lumber up here that comes out, goes across, and ties back into the wall. That’s all secured into blocking that’s tied into the wall structure. So, that gives us a backbone for all this. And then all of these little stepped pieces you see, these are all individual pieces that were milled in our shop. And then this is all bent drywall to give it that nice smooth curve.
Very early on with blocking and drywall work, our in-house guys, Brandon and Daeshawn, assisted with that part of it. And we actually ended up burying the sketch we had of this with our business cards right in here. So it’s a little time capsule that someone will find 100 years from now, who knows? Nice and light, looks like real stone, and it’s also super-friendly to the budget. It’s a win-win.